Paul G. Bigelow, 52, of Van Wert, died Friday, June 10, 2011, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert.<\/p>\n
He was born December 31, 1958, the son of Paul J. Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn., Richard M. Fodrie Jr. of Van Wert and the late Judith A. Fodrie.<\/p>\n
Survivors include a son, Rory J. Bigelow of Van Wert; one daughter, Sara Boroff of Middle Point; a brother, John P. (Tammy) Bigelow of Sartel, Minn.; one sister, Rene\u00e8 (Roy) Fodie Eyanson of Van Wert; five grandchildren; a niece; and his companion, Shelley Davidson of Van Wert.<\/p>\n
A sister, Dawn M. Bigelow Johnson, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n
There will be an informal gathering for family and friends by the pond at Smiley Park at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n There will be no calling hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n No funeral home information was provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul G. Bigelow, 52, of Van Wert, died Friday, June 10, 2011, at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. He was born December 31, 1958, the son of Paul J. Bigelow of St. Paul, Minn., Richard M. Fodrie Jr. of Van Wert and the late Judith A. Fodrie. Survivors include a son, Rory J. […]<\/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-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 21:54:42","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\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}