{"id":7624,"date":"2023-10-05T05:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2023-10-05T05:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:37:44","slug":"ricky-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/ricky-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rick A. White, age 66, passed away Monday, October 2, 2023, at Auburn Village, in Auburn, IN. following an extended illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ricky-White.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ricky-White.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ricky-White.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick was born in Ft. Wayne, IN. on Feb. 9, 1957, to James \u201cJim\u201d White and Barbara (Booker) DeLong, both parents preceded him in death. \u00a0He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bluffton. Rick worked for many years in the food service industry, retiring in 2019. \u00a0He enjoyed fishing, music from Johnny Cash, baby sitting his nieces and nephews, following NASCAR racing and he enjoyed taking long walks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include three sisters; Marcy Shie of Ft. Wayne, Susan Hourigan of Bluffton and Donna DeLong of Ossian, two brothers; James White of Little Falls, NY and Bill (JoEllen) White of Ft. Wayne and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his parents, Rick was preceded in death by a brother, Michael White in August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM, at Goodwin \u2013 Cale &amp; Harnish Memorial Chapel in Bluffton. A funeral service will be held on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, at 10:00 AM at the funeral home. Pastor Les Cantrell will officiate. Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery in Bluffton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memorial in Rick\u2019s memory can be made to Bi- County Services, Bluffton, IN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick A. White, age 66, passed away Monday, October 2, 2023, at Auburn Village, in Auburn, IN. following<\/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-7624","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\/7624","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=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}