{"id":20730,"date":"2013-03-18T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=20730"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:56:46","slug":"donald-c-welch-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/donald-c-welch-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald C. Welch Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday morning, March 16, 2013, Donald C. Welch Jr passed \u00a0away at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Welch was the son of Donald C Welch, Sr and Margaret Welch and had a younger brother, Jack Welch who preceded him in death in 1999. \u00a0 He grew up in Lock Haven, Pa and graduated from Lock Haven High School. \u00a0 After high school he joined the Navy and served in World War II. \u00a0He was the owner of the Don Welch Motor Company In Lock Haven from \u00a01962 \u00a0to 1985 .<\/p>\n<p>In 1944 he married Rosanna Goodnight from the state of Indiana who passed away in 1972. \u00a0He then married Jane Fisher who passed away in 1999.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His surviving family members include his son, Donald C and Judy Welch, daughter, Suzanne and Jess Sigmund, \u00a0grandchildren, Michael and Kathleen Sigmund, Tim and Natasha Sigmund and his special friend of many years, Ann Pursel.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Services will be held on Monday, March 18, 2013, at The Sterling House in Lehigh Acres, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday morning, March 16, 2013, Donald C. Welch Jr passed \u00a0away at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres. Mr Welch was the son of Donald C Welch, Sr and Margaret&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}