{"id":46849,"date":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p="},"modified":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","slug":"Merle-C.-Schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=46849","title":{"rendered":"Merle C. Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merle C. Schmidt, age 79, of Birmingham Boro, Tyrone, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at his home.<br \/>\nHe was born February 25, 1924 in Tyrone, the son of Herbert J. and Mary Gertrude Piper Schmidt.<br \/>\nOn March 31, 1946, he was married to Elizabeth Lucille Buck who preceded him in death August 9, 2001.<br \/>\nHe is survived by a son, John C. and wife Diana Schmidt of Thomastown, a grandson, Casey Ross Schmidt, two brothers Ross of Bellwood and James of Tyrone and two sisters, Ethel Garland and Pearl Wilson, both of Tyrone.<br \/>\nHe was preceded in death by three sisters, Hazel, Marie and Bessie.<br \/>\nHe was a member of the Birmingham Presbyterian Church, was a graduate of the Tyrone High School and served in the United States Marine Corps in World War II from December 1942 to December 1945 with service in the South Pacific.<br \/>\nHe had been employed as an auto mechanic at Rupert and Harpster Chevrolet and retired from Penn State University in 1986 as an auto mechanic after 20 years of service.<br \/>\nThere will be no public visitation. A memorial service will be held at a time to be announced.<br \/>\nArrangements are under the direction of the Richard H. Searer Funeral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merle C. Schmidt, age 79, of Birmingham Boro, Tyrone, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at his home. He was born February 25, 1924 in Tyrone, the son of Herbert J. and Mary Gertrude Piper Schmidt. On March 31, 1946, he was married to Elizabeth Lucille Buck who preceded him in death August 9, 2001. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}