{"id":4537,"date":"2011-03-10T22:17:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2011-03-10T22:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:17:57","slug":"stephen-f-placke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/10\/stephen-f-placke\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen F. Placke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen F. Placke, 56, of Van Wert, died at 11:18 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>He was born August 2, 1954, in Van Wert, the son of the late Julian C. and Elsie May (Geething) Placke. On August 31, 1974, he married Carolyn Ann (McCoy) Placke, who survivors in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>Other survivors include a son, Kyle Placke of Van Wert; two daughters, Ana S. Placke of Atlanta, Ga., and Monica J. Placke of Van Wert; four brothers, Gene (Ruth) Placke of Findlay, David (Cindy) Placke of Cleveland, Mike (Cheryl) Placke of Van Wert and Karl (Chris) Placke of Delphos; a sister, Rose (Dean) Smith of Wapakoneta; and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home in Van Wert.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 2-7 p.m. Saturday, March 12, and an hour prior to services Sunday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: The Placke family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen F. Placke, 56, of Van Wert, died at 11:18 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert. He was born August 2, 1954, in Van Wert, the son of the late Julian C. and Elsie May (Geething) Placke. On August 31, 1974, he married Carolyn Ann (McCoy) Placke, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 15:13:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}