{"id":674,"date":"2018-03-05T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=674"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:04:44","slug":"helen-k-yoder-vercler-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2018\/03\/05\/helen-k-yoder-vercler-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen K. (Yoder) Vercler &#8217;47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are deeply saddened to inform you that\u00a0Helen Katrine Vercler, 92 of Chenoa, passed away at 7:30 pm, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at her residence in Chenoa.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Wisconsin Rapids High School, Helen moved to Central Illinois and entered the three-year Cadet Nurse program at Brokaw School of Nursing at IWU. Helen spent many years working in the nursing profession in a variety of settings including office nursing for Dr. R.L. Oyer in Chenoa; the Meadows Mennonite Retirement Community and several positions in hospitals in Urbana, Pontiac and Fairbury.<\/p>\n<p>Helen enjoyed the written word and was a dedicated writer of family history and her own life experiences.\u00a0 She was also an amateur artist having completed many paintings in oils and watercolor and enjoyed several types of craftwork. She also served as a member of the Chenoa United Methodist Church for over 60 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-675\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/03\/4225736_fbs-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Helen will be missed by all those whose lives she touched.<\/p>\n<p>Read her full obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffypilsmemorialhome.com\/obituary\/helen-vercler\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are deeply saddened to inform you that\u00a0Helen Katrine Vercler, 92 of Chenoa, passed away at 7:30 pm, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at her residence in Chenoa. After graduating from Wisconsin Rapids High School, Helen moved to Central Illinois and entered the three-year Cadet Nurse program at Brokaw School of Nursing at IWU. Helen spent [&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-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}