HICKSVILLE, OHIO<\/p>\n
Joanne R. Wendt, 76,<\/strong> died Saturday, August 3, 2013 at Hickory Creek at Hicksville, Hicksville, Ohio.<\/p>\n She was born on November 20, 1936 in Defiance, Ohio, the daughter of the late Calvin and Ethel (Leever) Shreve.<\/p>\n Joanne was a 1954 graduate of Ayersville High School.<\/p>\n On October 21, 1956, she was united in marriage with Ervin Wendt and he preceded her in death on September 5, 2011.<\/p>\n Joanne was a nurse\u2019s aide at Fountain Manor nursing home for 32 years, retiring in 1998.<\/p>\n She had also been employed by GC Murphy and Bud\u2019s Hamburger Shop, both in Defiance, Ohio.<\/p>\n She is a member of the Nazarene Church, Hicksville, where she was on the church board and a Sunday school teacher.<\/p>\n Surviving Joanne are three daughters-Cindy (Norm) Schlosser, Nancy Wendt, all of Hicksville; Jeannie (Steve) Laney of Bryan, Ohio; two sons-Roy of Cecil, Ohio, Randol of Antwerp, Ohio; (17) grandchildren; (14) great grandchildren; four step grandchildren; eight step great grandchildren; four step great great grandchildren; siblings- Ethel Jones of Paulding, Janice Epplemann, Ellen Leeper both of Hicksville, and David Shreve of Oregon.<\/p>\n She was also preceded in death by two siblings- Ted Shreve and Loretta Epplemann.<\/p>\n Services for Joanne will be Thursday at 1:00 at Smith & Brown Funeral Home, Hicksville. Pastor Bob Knapp will officiate. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2:00 to 7:00 and one hour prior to the service.<\/p>\n Burial will be in Riverview Memory Gardens, Defiance, Ohio.<\/p>\n Preferred memorials may be made In Memory Of Joanne, c\/o Cindy Schlosser or Jeannie Laney.<\/p>\n Online condolences may be shared at www.smithbrownfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HICKSVILLE, OHIO Joanne R. Wendt, 76, died Saturday, August 3, 2013 at Hickory Creek at Hicksville, Hicksville, Ohio. 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":[1496,1494,57,1495],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","tag-1496","tag-joanne","tag-obituary","tag-wendt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-Un","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 08:03:53","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\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}