{"id":19025,"date":"2024-08-28T05:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=19025"},"modified":"2024-08-30T05:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:11:19","slug":"kevin-okey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/kevin-okey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Okey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kevin L. Okey, 68 of Bluffton, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne.<br>Kevin was born on February 22, 1956, at the navel hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia to Carl A. &amp; Marilyn (Schlagenhauf) Okey. After attending Bluffton High School, Kevin worked at Simpson\u2019s, later Metaldyne for many years before retiring. He enjoyed spending time outdoors and had a talent for gardening and keeping a perfect yard!<br>Kevin is survived by a daughter, Tara L. (Frank) Kahn of Fort Wayne and was a loving grandpa to 3 grandchildren: Emma, Elaina &amp; Easton. He is also survived by his mother, Marilyn Okey and a brother, Kent (Rose Betancourt) Okey of Bluffton.<\/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\/08\/Kevin-Okey-1724844728.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19026\" style=\"width:214px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kevin-Okey-1724844728.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kevin-Okey-1724844728.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kevin-Okey-1724844728.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kevin-Okey-1724844728.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He is preceded in death by his father, Carl Okey and a granddaughter, Elexia Kahn.<br>As Kevin requested, there will be no formal service. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Lemler family of Thoma\/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin L. Okey, 68 of Bluffton, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort<\/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-19025","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\/19025","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=19025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}