{"id":73357,"date":"2016-02-11T18:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73357"},"modified":"2016-02-11T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:51:11","slug":"kevin-t-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/kevin-t-thatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin T. Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin T. Thatcher, 51, of Middle Point, went to be with our Lord at 1:22 p.m. Wednesday, February 10, 2016, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center after fighting a hard battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73358\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Kevin-Thatcher-obit-photo-2-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin T. Thatcher\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Kevin T. Thatcher<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was born April 26, 1964, to Danny and Phyllis (Wisener) Thatcher, who survive in Middle Point.<\/p>\n<p>Other survivors include his children, Kory Thatcher, Kaylee Thatcher, and Julia Thatcher, all of Van Wert, and Kyle Thatcher of Middle Point; a sister, Melanie (Dennis) Miller of Middle Point; nephews Dustin Miller of Columbus and Austin Miller and Logan Miller, both of Middle Point; a niece, Morgan (Ben) Warnecke of Waynesfield; and his\u00a0companion, Theresa DuCheney.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin was a lifelong farmer and loved farming for his dad, uncle, and grandparents. He enjoyed snowmobiling with family and friends in Michigan and riding his Harley-Davidson across the country. He drove truck for Conrad\u2019s Trucking in Van Wert and later for Landstar Trucking in Florida. He was a 1982 graduate of Lincolnview High School.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin truly loved his family, friends, and life!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, February 15, 2016, at Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert. Burial will be\u00a0in Ridge Cemetery in rural Van Wert County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 2-8 p.m. Sunday, February 14, and an hour prior to services Monday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Kevin T. Thatcher Agricultural Scholarship Fund, through Lincolnview Local Schools, or the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center, c\/o Community Health Professionals, 1159 Westwood Drive, Van Wert, OH 45891.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin T. Thatcher, 51, of Middle Point, went to be with our Lord at 1:22 p.m. Wednesday, February 10, 2016, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center after fighting a hard battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease). He was born April 26, 1964, to Danny and Phyllis (Wisener) Thatcher, who survive in Middle Point. [&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-73357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 00:53:49","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\/73357","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=73357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}