Ella Mae Pierner, 73, of Delphos, died at 7:10 a.m. Thursday, March 17, 2011, at St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima.<\/p>\n
She was born November 9, 1937, in Wisconsin, the daughter of the late Frank and Rose (Kloes) Brede. She married Richard Pierner, who preceded her in death in 2004.<\/p>\n
Survivors include a son, Kevin (Amanda) Pierner of Tulsa, Okla.; one daughter, Dawn Pierner of Delphos; a brother, Ervin (Carol) Brede of Cecil, Wis.; and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n
An infant son, Kirk, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Delphos, with the Rev. Angela Khabeb officiating. Burial will be at a later date in Wisconsin.<\/strong><\/p>\n Calling hours are from 2-8 p.m. Friday, March 18, at Harter and Schier Funeral Home in Delphos and an hour prior to services Saturday at the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n Preferred memorials: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Delphos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ella Mae Pierner, 73, of Delphos, died at 7:10 a.m. Thursday, March 17, 2011, at St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima. She was born November 9, 1937, in Wisconsin, the daughter of the late Frank and Rose (Kloes) Brede. She married Richard Pierner, who preceded her in death in 2004. Survivors include a son, Kevin […]<\/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-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:08:53","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\/4894","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=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}