{"id":20247,"date":"2024-10-01T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=20247"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:57:13","slug":"kent-a-christy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/kent-a-christy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent A. Christy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.batesvilletechnology.com\/fh_live\/15900\/15910\/images\/obituaries\/9082782.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kent A. Christy, 70, of Berne, Indiana passed away Saturday afternoon, September 28, 2024, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born on November 8, 1953, in Decatur, Indiana to the late Bryce and Deloris (Liechty) Christy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served his country in the United States Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kent was a member of the First Mennonite Church in Berne, Indiana. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a Truck driver and retired after many years of driving. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kent was very talented at woodworking and made various items for the family. He enjoyed playing the piano and organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his son, Greg (Janet) Christy of Lebanon, Indiana; daughter, Gina (Vince) Vinci of Cadiz, Kentucky; son, Jason (Liz) Christy of Broaddus, Texas; brother, David (Sandy) Christy of Dallas, Georgia; sister, June (Rick) Liechty of Berne, Indiana; six grandsons; 11 granddaughters; and 13 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kent was preceded by death by two grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Graveside Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 3, 2024, at M.R.E. Cemetery in Berne, Indiana with Pastor Jim Schwartz officiating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials can be given to the Shriners Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Arrangements by Zwick &amp; Jahn Funeral Homes, Yager-Kirchhofer Chapel of Berne, Indiana&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent A. Christy, 70, of Berne, Indiana passed away Saturday afternoon, September 28, 2024, at Lutheran Hospital in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-20247","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\/20247","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20247\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}