{"id":2791,"date":"2021-10-04T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:57:15","slug":"timothy-ruegg-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2021\/10\/04\/timothy-ruegg-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Ruegg \u201982"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Timothy Ruegg \u201982 <\/strong>of Seward, Nebraska, died Sept. 12, 2021. He was 61. Tim earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education at Illinois Wesleyan and a master\u2019s degree in church music from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a trombonist and composer\/arranger for Strategic Air Command Band and Heartland of America Band at Offutt Air Force Base, and was deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. After his military career, he dedicated himself full-time to ministry and served on the staff of colleges and churches in California, Oklahoma and Washington. He had served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Seward since 2005. He also worked at Walmart in Seward for 15 years. Tim loved his community and enjoyed opportunities to play in and conduct the Seward Municipal Band and the University-Community Band. He is survived by his wife <strong>Peggy (Miller) Reugg \u201982<\/strong>, 13 children, 19 grandchildren, mother and\u00a0 four siblings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Ruegg \u201982 of Seward, Nebraska, died Sept. 12, 2021. He was 61. Tim earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education at Illinois Wesleyan and a master\u2019s degree in church music from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College. He served in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2021\/10\/04\/timothy-ruegg-82\/\">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-2791","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\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}