{"id":61142,"date":"2015-02-25T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=61142"},"modified":"2015-02-25T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:17:22","slug":"thomas-j-moynihan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/02\/25\/thomas-j-moynihan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas J. Moynihan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas J. Moynihan passed Tuesday, February 24, 2015, peacefully at his residence after a short illness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61143\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Thomas-Moynihan-obit-photo-2-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61143 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Thomas J. Moynihan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Thomas-Moynihan-obit-photo-2-2015.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Thomas J. Moynihan<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom was a loving father to six children and grandfather to 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>During his life, he was a retail manager for numerous stores, most recently for Fisher\u2019s Big Wheel in Van Wert, and then in Avon Lake. He was veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Van Wert, a member of the Elks and Pulaski Club of Pennsylvania and an avid card player at the Van Wert County Senior Center.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his \u201csweetheart,\u201d Geri Moynihan, who he met and courted in Oil City, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include three children, Drew Moynihan of Louisiana, Michael (Peggy) Moynihan of Wapakoneta and Kelly (Thomas) Andersen of Convoy.<\/p>\n<p>Three children, Kathleen Moynihan (Wilmington), James Moynihan (Van Wert) and Sean Moynihan (San Antonio, Texas); his mother, Sophie Licau (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); his only brother, James (Milwaukee); and a grandson, Kyle Moynihan (Van Wert), also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p>His laughter brought smiles to our faces, his generosity touched many. May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>Services will be held at a time to be determined by the family at St. Stephen\u2019s Parish in Oil City, Pennsylvania, with burial in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens in Cranberry, Pennsylvania.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas J. Moynihan passed Tuesday, February 24, 2015, peacefully at his residence after a short illness. Tom was a loving father to six children and grandfather to 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. During his life, he was a retail manager for numerous stores, most recently for Fisher\u2019s Big Wheel in Van Wert, and then in [&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-61142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 21:58:42","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\/61142","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=61142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}