{"id":16661,"date":"2024-05-24T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=16661"},"modified":"2024-05-24T07:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:46:35","slug":"james-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/james-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"James Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James L. Roberts, 89 of Bluffton, passed away on Thursday morning, May 23, 2024, at Markle Health &amp; Rehab Center.<br>Jim was born on May 6, 1935 in Wells County to Joe and Bernice (Jackson) Roberts. He was a lifelong resident of Wells County and attended Bluffton High School. He was a custodian at Bluffton Elementary School for 24 years, retiring in 1997. He was a member of Epworth United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/James-Roberts-1716483531.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16662\" style=\"width:212px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/James-Roberts-1716483531.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/James-Roberts-1716483531.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/James-Roberts-1716483531.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/James-Roberts-1716483531.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 20, 1957, Jim and Edruan Porter were married in Liberty Center. They shared 60 years of marriage before her passing in 2017.<br>Jim is survived by two sons; Jerome Roberts of Markle and Mark (Shellie Coons) Roberts of Albany, IN., and a grandson Rhett Roberts.<br>Jim is preceded in death by his parents Joe and Bernice, his wife Edruan, and a brother Richard Roberts.<br>A service to celebrate Jim\u2019s life will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at the Thoma\/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton. Tony Garton will officiate.<br>Calling hours will be from 9 A.M. to 11 A.M., prior to the service on Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Bluffton.<br>Memorials may be made to Epworth United Methodist Church or Bi-County Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James L. Roberts, 89 of Bluffton, passed away on Thursday morning, May 23, 2024, at Markle Health &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-16661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}