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<\/a>Survivors include three children, Dorothy E. \u201cDot\u201d (Glen) Mason-Markley of Van Wert, Robert \u201cBob\u201d Mason of Convoy, and Vickie A. (Gary) Pugsley of Mesa, Arizona; a brother, Curtis F. Miller of Van Wert; six grandchildren, A daughter, Holly Mason; one daughter-in-law, Angie Mason; four brothers, Earl, LeRoy, Bob, and Oscar Miller; and a sister, Lola Thatcher, also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n Donald was a retired tool and die maker at Kennedy Manufacturing in Van Wert. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran who served during the Korean Conflict, and was a Purple Heart recipient. He was a life member of the United Steelworkers Union, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803, and American Legion Post 178, both in Van Wert.<\/p>\n Memorial services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, January 22, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert. <\/b><\/p>\n Calling hours are from 2-8 p.m. Thursday, January 21, at the funeral home, where military honors will be rendered by honors units of Legion Post 178 and VFW Post 5803 at 4 p.m. that afternoon.<\/b><\/p>\n Online condolences may be expressed at www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a> or emailed to bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Ray Miller, 83, of Van Wert, passed away at 12:06 p.m. Sunday, January 17, 2016, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. He was born June 5, 1932, in Middle Point, a son of Earl and Pearl (Daring) Miller, who both preceded him in death. On July 19, 1963, he married Margaret \u201cPeg\u201d […]<\/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-71993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 23:51:05","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\/71993","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=71993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Donald L. \u201cDon\u201d Mason of Van Wert, Christal R., (Rudy) Pugsley-Munguia of Reynoldsburg, Gary W. (Kris) Pugsley Jr. of Scottsdale, Arizona, Kris T. Markley of Van Wert, and Jessica K. (Brian) Stotz, and Tyler J. Mason, both of Moab, Utah; 17 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n