{"id":8447,"date":"2023-10-18T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:24:21","slug":"thomas-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/thomas-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomas Sylvester Smith, 85, of Decatur, Indiana, passed away on Monday, October 16, 2023 at Christian Care Retirement Center in Bluffton, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born on June 23, 1938 in Geneva, Indiana to the late Charles Sylvester Smith and the late Tennessee Renerva (Hicks) Smith. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas served his country in the United States Marines Corps during Vietnam, where he was honorably discharged. &nbsp;He worked in the auto repair business in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas was very mechanically oriented and was handy in all areas and aspects of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include his sister, Shirley (Dale) Wass of Decatur, Indiana; and his brother, Paul (Sharon) Smith of Decatur, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Pauline Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Private family services will be held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials can be given to ProMedica Hospice through Zwick &amp; Jahn Funeral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sylvester Smith, 85, of Decatur, Indiana, passed away on Monday, October 16, 2023 at Christian Care Retirement<\/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-8447","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\/8447","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=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}