{"id":93421,"date":"2017-09-24T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93421"},"modified":"2017-09-24T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T03:34:00","slug":"kenneth-l-speelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/24\/kenneth-l-speelman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth L. Speelman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth L. Speelman, 78, of Scott, passed away at 5:58 a.m. Saturday, September 23, 2017, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93422\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kenneth-Speelman-obit-photo-9-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"439\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Kenneth L. Speelman<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was born March 29, 1939, in Scott, a son of Leonard and Celia (Wilder) Speelman, who both preceded him in death.\u00a0On October 7, 1960, he married the former Janet D. Painter, who died November 22, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a son, Christopher A. (Janet) Speelman of Scott; one granddaughter, Melissa (Alan) Rose of Butler, Indiana; and three great-grandchildren, Braxton Speelman, Adalyn Rose, and Griffin Rose.\u00a0 He is also survived by a brother, David (Nancy) Speelman of Convoy, and a sister, Linda Hooghe of Centerville.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth was a retired 38-year employee of Dana Corporation and had been on the Scott Volunteer Fire Department more than 40 years.\u00a0He was a woodworker and an avid hunter and fisherman.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, September, 28, at Brickner Funeral Home in Van Wert.\u00a0Burial will be in Scott Cemetery, followed by a luncheon served at the Scott Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation is from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, September 27, and an hour prior to services Thursday at the funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Scott Volunteer Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricknerfuneralhome.com\">www.bricknerfuneralhome.com<\/a> or emailed to <a href=\"mailto:bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net\">bricknerfuneralhome@bright.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth L. Speelman, 78, of Scott, passed away at 5:58 a.m. Saturday, September 23, 2017, at Vancrest Health Care Center in Van Wert. He was born March 29, 1939, in Scott, a son of Leonard and Celia (Wilder) Speelman, who both preceded him in death.\u00a0On October 7, 1960, he married the former Janet D. Painter, [&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-93421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 04:28:52","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\/93421","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=93421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}