{"id":32179,"date":"2026-01-12T20:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=32179"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:11:00","slug":"rick-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/rick-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rick Arnold, age 73, of Geneva and former Portland resident passed away on Sunday January 11, 2026 in Adams Woodcrest Senior Living in Decatur.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was born in Albany on April 5, 1952 the son of Dorwin and Lelia (Sutton) Arnold.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was married on January 1, 1995 to Nancy Shauver and she passed away on April 2, 2009.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rick had worked at EPC in Geneva and Cline Wilt Lumber in Portland.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was a 1970 Albany High School graduate and loved cats and NASCAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rick-Arnold.jpg?resize=640%2C734&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32180\" style=\"width:249px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rick-Arnold.jpg?w=643&amp;ssl=1 643w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rick-Arnold.jpg?resize=262%2C300&amp;ssl=1 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Surviving is one son Matthew Arnold (wife Ashley) of Clarksville, Tennessee and one daughter Katrina Ann Boyd of Evansville, a step daughter Jessica Cruz of Hartford City, Eight grandchildren and special family members Randy and Joan Sutton and their daughter Deb Sutton King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funeral services will be Monday January 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at 2:00 PM in the Baird-Freeman Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Salamonia Cemetery.&nbsp;&nbsp;Visitation will be on Monday from 12:00 \u2013 2:00 PM.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memorials can be made to Cat Tales in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bairdfreeman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.bairdfreeman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Arnold, age 73, of Geneva and former Portland resident passed away on Sunday January 11, 2026 in<\/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-32179","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\/32179","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=32179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32181,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions\/32181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}