{"id":32318,"date":"2014-08-13T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32318"},"modified":"2014-08-13T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:19:14","slug":"helen-flint-weddel-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/08\/helen-flint-weddel-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Flint Weddel, 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Helen Flint Weddel, age 73, of Lehigh Acres lost her battle with pancreatic cancer on August 11, 2014. Helen is a 4<\/span>th<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0generation native Floridian who was born, raised and spent her entire life on Homestead Road in Lehigh Acres. She graduated from Alva High School in 1961. She worked in the moving business for many years. When she wasn\u2019t working she enjoyed cooking, sewing, painting, gardening, sailing, shooting and car shows. She especially enjoye0d spending time with her family.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><!--more-->Helen was an exceptional woman, a bright shining star who touched the hearts of everyone she came in contact with. She was a wonderful daughter, loving wife and an amazing mother and grandmother. Helen is irreplaceable to all that know her. She will be greatly missed by all who know and love her.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Helen was preceded in death by her parents William R. and Ida May (Hedlund) Flint and her husband, Millard \u201cSkip\u201d Weddel. She is survived by her loving companion, Glen Obertubbesing and his adoring mother, Virginia Obertubbesing; her sons: Brian (Rosie) Mount and Gerald (Margret) Mount; her grandchildren: Elizabeth Mount, Dillion Breeyear, Jeremy (Jennifer) Stevens and Joshua Mount; her great grandchildren: Colton Smith and Mariah Knavel; her brother, Bill Flint; step-mother, Alecia Flint and many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Visitation will be\u00a0Saturday, August 23, 2014\u00a0at Hodges Funeral Home at Lee Memorial Park from\u00a012 pm\u00a0until the time of the funeral service at\u00a01 pm. Interment will be in Lee Memorial Park Cemetery. Info\u00a0<a href=\"tel:239-334-4880\" target=\"_blank\">239-334-4880<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Flint Weddel, age 73, of Lehigh Acres lost her battle with pancreatic cancer on August 11, 2014. Helen is a 4th\u00a0generation native Floridian who was born, raised and spent&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\/32318"}],"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=32318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}