{"id":85623,"date":"2017-03-26T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85623"},"modified":"2017-03-26T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T21:12:11","slug":"christina-l-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/26\/christina-l-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina L. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina L. Smith, 47, of Portland, Indiana, passed away after a brief battle with cancer at Indiana University\u2019s Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the daughter of James and Kay (Reece) Smith. She was a 1988 Van Wert High School graduate and was a manager for Kentucky Fried Chicken in New Castle, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving are her best friend and caregiver, Carmen Martyne of Portland; her father James (Clair) Smith of Scott; her mother, Kay (Charles) Sweeney of St. Marys; her paternal grandmother, Monnie Smith of Van Wert; her stepgrandmother, Alma Rhoades of Middle Point; a brother, Ronald Smith of Scott; two stepbrothers, Thomas Sweeney of St. Marys and Robert Sweeney of Pippa Pass, Kentucky; and several nieces and nephews, including Kristen Smith and Elijah Smith, both of Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, at Baird-Freeman Funeral Home in Portland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation is from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: IU Ball Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bairdfreeman.com\">www.bairdfreeman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina L. Smith, 47, of Portland, Indiana, passed away after a brief battle with cancer at Indiana University\u2019s Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana. She was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the daughter of James and Kay (Reece) Smith. She was a 1988 Van Wert High School graduate and was a manager for Kentucky Fried [&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-85623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 23:21:11","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\/85623","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=85623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}