{"id":9029,"date":"2011-06-07T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2011-06-08T03:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:06:19","slug":"raymond-l-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/07\/raymond-l-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond L. Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond L. Coleman died at 4:25 p.m. Monday, June 6, 2011, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9033\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9033 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Raymond-Coleman-obit-photo-edited-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond L. Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was born January 15, 1921, in Lodi, Ohio, the son of the late Raymond F. and Marie (Marble) Coleman. On February 3, 1945, he married Patricia (Steinmetz) Coleman, who preceded him in death on July 8, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8711\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" \/>Mr. Coleman graduated from Martins Ferry High School and retired from Continental Can Company after 37 years of service. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and was stationed on Ascension Island. He was a lifetime member of Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 1320, where he was a past governor and a longtime member of the ritual staff. He was also a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 and American Legion Post 178, both in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include three children, Ronald L. (Linda) Coleman of Ocala, Fla., Paula M. (Larry) Giessler of Van Wert and Kathy J. (Gregg) Perry of Monroeville, Ind.; a sister, Dorothy Snyder of Martins Ferry; one brother, Richard Coleman of Martins Ferry; four grandchildren, Trevor Coleman of Toledo, Adam Giessler of Columbus, Erin (Phillip) Morton of Elida and Alisha (Charles) Buchanan of Whitehouse; and three great-grandchildren, Morgan and Sydney Morton of Elida and Audie Buchanan of Whitehouse.<\/p>\n<p>A brother, Donald Coleman, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, June 10, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert, with the Rev. Paul W. Miller officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery in Van Wert, with graveside military rites performed by the combined honors unit of Legion Post 178 and VFW Post 5803.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Van Wert County Council on Aging.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at <a href=\"mailto:bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net\">bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>, or left on the funeral home\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricknerfuneralhome.com\">www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond L. Coleman died at 4:25 p.m. Monday, June 6, 2011, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. He was born January 15, 1921, in Lodi, Ohio, the son of the late Raymond F. and Marie (Marble) Coleman. On February 3, 1945, he married Patricia (Steinmetz) Coleman, who preceded him in death on July [&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-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 06:52:46","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\/9029","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=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}