{"id":2864,"date":"2022-04-05T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:19:33","slug":"gary-wester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2022\/04\/05\/gary-wester\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Wester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gary Wester <\/strong>of Normal, Illinois, died March 15, 2022. He was 74. Gary taught computer science as a member of Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s faculty from 1985-87. He also taught at Waycross (Ga.) College. He earned a master\u2019s degree and doctorate from Western Michigan University. After his teaching career, Gary went on a long and distinguished career with State Farm, from which he retired in 2010 to pursue passions for watercolor and pastel painting. He is survived by his wife, three children, granddaughter, brother, and several nieces and nephews.\u00a0You can read more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/pantagraph\/name\/gary-wester-obituary?id=33790339\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/pantagraph\/name\/gary-wester-obituary?id=33790339\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Wester of Normal, Illinois, died March 15, 2022. He was 74. Gary taught computer science as a member of Illinois Wesleyan\u2019s faculty from 1985-87. He also taught at Waycross (Ga.) College. He earned a master\u2019s degree and doctorate from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2022\/04\/05\/gary-wester\/\">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-2864","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\/2864","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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}