{"id":548,"date":"2023-04-07T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:52:33","slug":"tommy-k-gasper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/tommy-k-gasper\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy K. Gasper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(May 28, 1939 &#8211; April 6, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?resize=235%2C235\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tommy K. Gasper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy Kenneth Gasper, 83 of Bluffton, passed away early Thursday morning, April 6, 2023, at his residence surrounded by his family.<br>He was born on May 28, 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Kenneth &amp; Mary Ann (Delaney) Gasper and graduated from New Haven High School with the class of 1957.<br>Tommy worked at Tuthill Corporation and retired from ACMA Trucking Services in Fort Wayne.<br>On April 11, 1958, Tommy and Phyllis Ann Jones were married at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne. They shared 65 years of marriage together.<br>Survivors include his wife, Phyllis of Bluffton and his children; Kenneth Gasper of Bluffton, Ann Aguirre of Fort Wayne, Frankie (Matt) Gagnon of New Haven and Lynn (Troy) Kressley of Decatur, along with 13 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister Connie \u201cSue\u201d Byers of Bluffton.<br>He is preceded in death by his parents, a brother William \u201cMike\u201d Gasper, his sisters Minnie (Harry) Gillenwater and Betty (Charles) Freeman and a grandson Nick Gasper.<br>Funeral services will take place at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday (April 13, 2023) at the Thoma\/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton. A graveside service will take place at 1 P.M. on Thursday, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Fort Wayne.<br>Visitation will be held from 3 P.M. to 7 P.M. on Wednesday (April 12, 2023) at the funeral home and for one hour prior to the service on Thursday.<br>Memorials may be made in Tommy\u2019s memory to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.<br>Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Lemler family of Thoma\/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton. Friends can send online condolences to the Gasper family at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomarich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.thomarich.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 28, 1939 &#8211; April 6, 2023) Tommy Kenneth Gasper, 83 of Bluffton, passed away early Thursday morning,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549,"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-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tommy-Gasper.jpg?fit=896%2C896&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}