{"id":23445,"date":"2025-01-20T07:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=23445"},"modified":"2025-01-21T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:11:10","slug":"chuck-crowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/chuck-crowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Crowell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"isPasted\">James C. \u201cChuck\u201d Crowell, Sr., 57, of Decatur, Indiana passed away Saturday evening, January 18, 2025, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born on August 18, 1967, in Decatur, Indiana to Robert \u201cBob\u201d and Marilyn R. (Boring) Crowell.<\/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=\"409\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/15d3f23f-59fa-4308-bb63-5bc8b51ac50c.jpg?resize=409%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23446\" style=\"width:169px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/15d3f23f-59fa-4308-bb63-5bc8b51ac50c.jpg?w=409&amp;ssl=1 409w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/15d3f23f-59fa-4308-bb63-5bc8b51ac50c.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck was a member of the Eagles Aerie in Decatur, Indiana, and enjoyed playing pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a graduate of Parkway High School. Chuck was a welder by trade for about twenty years and traveled the United States as an escort vehicle for semis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck was a professional wrestler for ten years, his ring name was \u201cApoc\u201d. Alongside his father and brother, they were D.J.\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his mother, Marilyn R. Crowell of Decatur, Indiana; son, James C. (Aurora) Crowell, Jr. of Fort Wayne, Indiana; significant other of 20 years, Tonia Benge of Decatur, Indiana; step-son, William (Danyiel) Colbert of Fort Wayne, Indiana; step-daughter, Crystal (Christopher) Shaffer of Decatur, Indiana; brother, Steve (Lisa) Crowell of Rockford, Ohio; sister, Deborah Kelsey of Winchester, Indiana; sister, Katherine Wren of Winchester, Indiana; sister, Roberta Hobbs of Marshall, Indiana; seven grandchildren, Satorei Crowell, Airyana Crowell; Ashlynn Shaffer, Judith Shaffer, Elizabeth Colbert, Allysia Kinyon, and James Horj; and one great-grandson, Rylan Trendle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck was preceded in death by his father, Robert \u201cBob\u201d Crowell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family will receive friends from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Thursday, January 23, 2025, at the Zwick &amp; Jahn Funeral Home in Decatur, Indiana. Inurnment will take place at Willshire Cemetery at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials to the family, checks payable to Zwick &amp; Jahn Funeral Homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James C. \u201cChuck\u201d Crowell, Sr., 57, of Decatur, Indiana passed away Saturday evening, January 18, 2025, at Lutheran<\/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-23445","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\/23445","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=23445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23447,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions\/23447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}