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Fern E. Rath,<\/strong> 99, of\u00a0\u00a0Antwerp passed away Thursday, November 20, 2014 at Twin Rivers Care Center, Defiance.<\/p>\n Fern was born in Black Run, Ohio on February 24, 1915, a daughter of the late Mary (Collins) and Frank\u00a0\u00a0Hutchinson.<\/p>\n She was a\u00a0\u00a0custodian at Antwerp Local Schools Antwerp and a member of Antwerp VFW & American Legion Auxiliaries, Royal Neighbors & First Baptist Church of Antwerp.\u00a0\u00a0Fern also called square dances and was well known for her grand sense of humor.<\/p>\n Fern married Wade Rath in 1935. Wade died in 1993.<\/p>\n She will be sadly missed by her daughter, Trudy of Defiance & grandson, Derek of Fort Wayne.<\/p>\n Fern was preceded in death by her siblings, Minnie Hull, Ollie Hull, Goldie Pickens, Rachel Hedges, Harold, Fred & Leo Hutchinson.<\/p>\n Her funeral service is Saturday, Nov. 22nd, 11 am, with viewing one hour prior at First Baptist Church of Antwerp.<\/p>\n Condolences and fond memories may be shared at www.dooleyfuneralhome.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANTWERP: Fern E. Rath, 99, of\u00a0\u00a0Antwerp passed away Thursday, November 20, 2014 at Twin Rivers Care Center, Defiance. Fern 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":[58,3078,1531,1001,57,3079],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","tag-dooley","tag-fern","tag-funeral","tag-home-2","tag-obituary","tag-rath"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-2pf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 14:04:19","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\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}