{"id":37746,"date":"2020-10-15T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=37746"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T13:00:13","slug":"beerkens-gerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/beerkens-gerald\/","title":{"rendered":"BEERKENS, Gerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Beerkens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37747\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Beerkens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Beerkens.jpg 236w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Beerkens-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>September 24th, 1934 &#8211; October 8th, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Beerkens, 86, died peacefully on Thursday, October 8th, 2020 in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald is lovingly remembered by his late wife Nellie of 61 years, his children: Gary (Cathy), John (Katrina), Rudy (Patti), Nancy (Peter) and Sonya (Dave); fondly remembered by his six grandchildren (Crystal, Jeffrey [Crystal], Tamara [Mike], Hanna, Jack and Danya) and five great-grandchildren (Cayden, Brianna, Fayth, Ethan and Andre); and greatly missed by his many friends from Wawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald is sadly missed by his nine siblings from Venlo, Holland: pre-deceased by Anne, Gertrude, Pete, Mia, and Paula, his two remaining sisters Wilhelmina and Norbertha and his two remaining brothers Matheus and Jos.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral mass will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 24th, 2020, at St. Monica\u2019s Catholic Church, Wawa, Ontario, as well as a Come and Go at the church after the funeral mass (due to Covid-19, the number of visitors at any one time may be restricted).<\/p>\n<p>Donations made to the Dementia Society (Alzheimer\u2019s) would be appreciated by the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24th, 1934 &#8211; October 8th, 2020 Gerald Beerkens, 86, died peacefully on Thursday, October 8th, 2020 in Ottawa, Ontario. Gerald is lovingly remembered by his late wife Nellie of 61 years, his children: Gary (Cathy), John (Katrina), Rudy (Patti), Nancy (Peter) and Sonya (Dave); fondly remembered by his six grandchildren (Crystal, Jeffrey [Crystal], Tamara &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2663],"tags":[1873],"class_list":["post-37746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-obits","tag-nellie-beerkens"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:18:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37748,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746\/revisions\/37748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}