{"id":75774,"date":"2016-04-26T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=75774"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:09:19","slug":"donald-joseph-okuley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/04\/26\/donald-joseph-okuley\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Joseph Okuley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Joseph Okuley, 94, of Holgate, died Sunday evening, April 24, 2016, at Vancrest Health Care Center of Holgate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75775\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Donald-Okuley-obit-photo-4-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75775\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Donald-Okuley-obit-photo-4-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Joseph Okuley\" width=\"250\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Donald Joseph Okuley<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don was born December 6, 1921, in New Bavaria, to Albert and Agnes Westrick Okuley, who both preceded him in death.\u00a0 On September 29, 1945, he married Marcella Wagner, who also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p>Don was a farmer all of his life and a member of St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Holgate.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived two sons, Roger (Kay) Okuley of Van Wert and Dennis (Deborah) Okuley of New Bavaria; a daughter-in-law, Dorothy Okuley of Waterville; six grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A son, Norman Okuley; and two brothers, Paul and Bernard Okuley, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 28, at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Holgate, with Father Nick Cunningham officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation is from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at Zachrich Funeral Home in Holgate, where the Rosary will be said at 7:30 that evening.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Contributions can be made in Don\u2019s memory to St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church, Vancrest of Holgate, or a charity of the donor\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Joseph Okuley, 94, of Holgate, died Sunday evening, April 24, 2016, at Vancrest Health Care Center of Holgate. Don was born December 6, 1921, in New Bavaria, to Albert and Agnes Westrick Okuley, who both preceded him in death.\u00a0 On September 29, 1945, he married Marcella Wagner, who also preceded him in death. Don [&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-75774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 20:09:10","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\/75774","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=75774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}