{"id":2312,"date":"2013-05-10T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2013-05-10T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:45:14","slug":"jennie-marie-smith-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/jennie-marie-smith-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Marie Smith, 73,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jennie Marie Smith, 73,<\/strong> of Defiance, passed away on Thursday,\u00a0 May 9, 2013 at Mercy Hospital,\u00a0 Defiance, OH.<br \/>\nShe was born on July 18, 1939 to Charles and AnnaDell (Reeb) Champion in Hicksville, OH. On October 15, 1965 she married Burdette S. Smith in Antwerp United Methodist Church.<br \/>\nJennie was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church, Moose, Eagles, YMCA, and the Defiance Senior Center.\u00a0 She was a 1957 graduate of Hicksville High School where she was valedictorian of her class. She loved traveling, reading, puzzles, line dancing, water aerobics and was a people person who loved to interact with others.\u00a0 Jennie retired from the Chief Super Market after 18 years..<br \/>\nJennie is survived by her longtime companion and partner, Steve \u201cWoody\u201d Whatman of Defiance, OH, children,\u00a0 Lana (Tony Sharp) Brock of Townsend, TN, Charles\u00a0 (Pamela Marie) Smith of Antwerp, OH,\u00a0 Richard Wayne (Tracy Lynn) Smith of Maryville, TN, Angela Denise (Matt Salinas) Zech of Paulding, OH, grandchildren, Joel Seibert of Columbus, OH, Lisa (David) Schroeder of Paulding, OH, Joseph Smith of Paulding, OH, Alana &amp; Carissa Zech of Defiance, OH, Aric &amp; Cody\u00a0 Smith of Maryville, TN, and a sister, Sue (Harold) Howe of Angola, IN.<br \/>\nShe was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Burdette, and a sister, Gloria Maag.<br \/>\nVisitation will be held from 2-6 p.m. Sunday, May 12, 2013 &amp; from 10-11 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013 at Schaffer Funeral Home, Defiance, Ohio.<br \/>\nFuneral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at the funeral home with Rev. Michael Donnally officiating.<br \/>\nBurial will take follow in\u00a0 Riverside Cemetery.<br \/>\nThe family suggest memorials be made to the American Cancer Society. Online condolences can be given at www.Schafferfh.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennie Marie Smith, 73, of Defiance, passed away on Thursday,\u00a0 May 9, 2013 at Mercy Hospital,\u00a0 Defiance, OH. She was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","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":[915,860,57,303],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","tag-jennie","tag-marie","tag-obituary","tag-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-Bi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 05:11:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}