{"id":1031,"date":"2019-06-04T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:28:25","slug":"james-jim-hershbarger-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2019\/06\/04\/james-jim-hershbarger-48\/","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Jim&#8221; Hershbarger &#8217;48"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>James \u201cJim\u201d Hershbarger \u201948 <\/strong>of Champaign, Illinois, died April 15, 2019. He was 93. Jim won letters as a member of Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s football, basketball and baseball teams. He was named to multiple all-conference teams and was elected to the Order of Titans. Jim spent 32 years in the auto industry. He also served as an insurance agent for American Family Insurance before retiring in 1995. He was a member of Champaign\u2019s St. Peter\u2019s United Church of Christ, where he was on the consistory and church treasurer for two years. He was also a member of the Elks, Moose and Phi Gamma Delta, where he served as a member of the Interfraternity Counsel. He is survived by his wife, daughter, three grandchildren and a brother.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view his obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/obituaries\/2019-04-18\/james-hershbarger.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2019\/06\/James-hershbarger-64x64.jpeg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James \u201cJim\u201d Hershbarger \u201948 of Champaign, Illinois, died April 15, 2019. He was 93. Jim won letters as a member of Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s football, basketball and baseball teams. He was named to multiple all-conference teams and was elected to the Order of Titans. Jim spent 32 years in the auto industry. He also served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}