{"id":1656,"date":"2022-07-14T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:54:59","slug":"jack-stephens-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2022\/07\/14\/jack-stephens-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack K. Stephens &#8217;57"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jack K. Stephens &#8217;57<\/strong> of Monmouth, IL. passed away Monday, July 11, 2022. Jack was born May 30, 1931 in Joplin, MO, the son of Lyman Kenneth and Lola Margaret (Perry) Stephens.\u00a0He was raised and educated in Normal, IL, graduating from Normal High School in 1949.\u00a0He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1957 and later his Master of Music degree in 1961. Jack married Joy Ruth Fairchild &#8217;62 in Heyworth, IL on August 10, 1961. Ruth passed away on July 12, 2022. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcguireanddaviesfuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Jack-Stephens\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mcguireanddaviesfuneralhome.com\/obituary\/Jack-Stephens\" target=\"_blank\">View the full obituary here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack K. Stephens &#8217;57 of Monmouth, IL. passed away Monday, July 11, 2022. Jack was born May 30, 1931 in Joplin, MO, the son of Lyman Kenneth and Lola Margaret (Perry) Stephens.\u00a0He was raised and educated in Normal, IL, graduating from Normal High School in 1949.\u00a0He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois [&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-1656","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\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}