{"id":52514,"date":"2014-06-06T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=52514"},"modified":"2014-06-06T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T04:00:40","slug":"william-russell-burk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/06\/06\/william-russell-burk\/","title":{"rendered":"William Russell Burk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Russell Burk, 68, of Ohio City and formerly of Van Wert, died at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 5, 2014, at St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>He was born May 5, 1946, in Van Wert, the son of the late Russell A. and Minnie E. (Wooderson) Burk.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son, Shawn (Renee) Burk of Ohio City; one daughter, Christina (Mark) Nowak of Grover Hill; a sister, DeeAnn Zimmerman; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>A brother, David Burk, preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><b>Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, at Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home in Van Wert. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery in Van Wert.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Calling hours are from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at the funeral home.itu<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: His family of Van Wert Area Visiting Nurses Association, c\/o Community Health Professionals, 1159 Westwood Drive, Van Wert, OH 45891.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be left at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowanfuneralhome.com\">www.cowanfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Russell Burk, 68, of Ohio City and formerly of Van Wert, died at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 5, 2014, at St. Rita\u2019s Medical Center in Lima following a battle with cancer. He was born May 5, 1946, in Van Wert, the son of the late Russell A. and Minnie E. (Wooderson) Burk. Survivors include [&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-52514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 13:11:19","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\/52514","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=52514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}