{"id":2254,"date":"2020-12-14T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:42:27","slug":"delmar-smith-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2020\/12\/14\/delmar-smith-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Delmar Smith \u201961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delmar Smith \u201961 of Morton, Illinois, died Nov. 25, 2020. He was 86.<\/p>\n<p>Delmar earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at Illinois Wesleyan before earning master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in divinity and ministry, respectively. He served 39-and-a-half years as an ordained clergyman in the United Methodist Church, including the final 19 years at Canton (Ill.) Wesley United Methodist Church. He is survived by two children, six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, a sister and a nephew.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full obituary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/pantagraph\/name\/delmar-dan-smith-obituary?pid=197183430&amp;cid=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2255\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2020\/12\/Obituary-Smith-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2020\/12\/Obituary-Smith-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2020\/12\/Obituary-Smith.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delmar Smith \u201961 of Morton, Illinois, died Nov. 25, 2020. He was 86. Delmar earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at Illinois Wesleyan before earning master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in divinity and ministry, respectively. He served 39-and-a-half years as an ordained clergyman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2020\/12\/14\/delmar-smith-61\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","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\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}