{"id":79764,"date":"2016-09-09T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T02:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=79764"},"modified":"2016-09-09T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T02:24:41","slug":"montayne-l-ferris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/montayne-l-ferris\/","title":{"rendered":"Montayne L. Ferris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montayne L. \u201cMonnie\u201d Ferris, 95, of Van Wert, passed away at 10:22 a.m. Thursday, September 8, 2016, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>She was born May 28, 1921, in Wapakoneta, the son of Frank A. and Clara B. (Koehler) Abraham, who both preceded her in death. On December 23, 1942, she married John M. Keirns, the father of her daughters. On July 17, 1965, she married Richard W. Ferris, who died July 13, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include three daughters, Susan (John) Anderson, Kathy (Larry) Keltner, and Trayce (Randy) Thornell; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>An infant daughter; her brother, Francis Abraham, and an infant grandson also preceded her in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Private graveside services will be held at Woodland Cemetery in Van Wert. A celebration of life service will be announced at a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arrangements were handled by Cowan &amp; Son Funeral Home in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowanfuneralhome.com\">www.cowanfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montayne L. \u201cMonnie\u201d Ferris, 95, of Van Wert, passed away at 10:22 a.m. Thursday, September 8, 2016, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert. She was born May 28, 1921, in Wapakoneta, the son of Frank A. and Clara B. (Koehler) Abraham, who both preceded her in death. On December 23, 1942, she married [&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-79764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 17:29:29","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\/79764","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=79764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}