{"id":1539,"date":"2021-03-15T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2021-03-15T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:46:01","slug":"rev-dale-kooi-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2021\/03\/15\/rev-dale-kooi-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Dale Kooi \u201856"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rev. Dale Kooi \u201856<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of Kewanee, Illinois, died Aug. 3, 2020. He was 86. Dale studied philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan before earning a master\u2019s of divinity from Union\u00a0 Theological Seminary in New York City. After ordination as an elder in the Methodist Church, Dale served over 40 years in ministry in Central Illinois. Both before ordination and after his retirement, he ministered part-time in churches of several denominations. He took a sabbatical leave in 1974-75 in order to study at King\u2019s College in London, where he was interim pastor at Chelsea United Reformed Church. Dale was a longtime blood donor and volunteer. His carpentry skills were employed when he helped build houses with Habitat for Humanity. He is survived by his wife, <\/span><b>Carol (Palmer) Kooi \u201872<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, two children, three grandchildren, a great-grandson, and sister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dale Kooi \u201856 of Kewanee, Illinois, died Aug. 3, 2020. He was 86. Dale studied philosophy at Illinois Wesleyan before earning a master\u2019s of divinity from Union\u00a0 Theological Seminary in New York City. After ordination as an elder in the Methodist Church, Dale served over 40 years in ministry in Central Illinois. Both before [&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-1539","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\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}