{"id":73471,"date":"2025-04-27T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=73471"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:35:11","slug":"celebration-of-life-darwin-ross-spike-spreng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/celebration-of-life-darwin-ross-spike-spreng\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Life &#8211; Spike Spreng on Thursday, May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-7.11.03\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-72230\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-7.11.03\u202fAM-455x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-7.11.03\u202fAM-455x600.png 455w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-7.11.03\u202fAM-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-25-at-7.11.03\u202fAM.png 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A celebration of Spike&#8217;s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion #429, Wawa on Thursday, May 8th, 2025, beginning at 11:00 a.m. A time of food and fellowship will follow. For those that are not able to attend in person, the celebration will be live-streamed. Please follow the link to register: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/event.forgetmenotceremonies.com\/ceremony?c=dd2c7f6b-687f-4f02-a85d-3ddbf4e710b5\">https:\/\/event.forgetmenotceremonies.com\/ceremony?c=dd2c7f6b-687f-4f02-a85d-3ddbf4e710b5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>August 26th, 1936 &#8211; February 20th, 2025<\/p>\n<p>It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Spike at the Lady Dunn Health Centre in Wawa on Thursday, February 20th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves behind his wife Noreen of 61 years, brother of the late Geraldine Spreng, and cousin of Rodney Spreng (Margo). Loved father to Andrea (Tom Curtis) Kent and Barclay (Nancy) and special Grandpa to Blair, Morgan, Ainsley and Alicia.<\/p>\n<p>Most people will remember Spike in the family hardware store serving the community tackling their many projects and problems with humour, patience and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The family would like to thank Dr. M. Cotterill and the kind and caring staff at the Lady Dunn Health Centre.<\/p>\n<p>A donation to the Lady Dunn Health Centre Foundation in Spike\u2019s memory would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements entrusted to the Kerry Funeral Home, Wawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration of Spike&#8217;s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion #429, Wawa on Thursday, May 8th, 2025, beginning at 11:00 a.m. A time of food and fellowship will follow. For those that are not able to attend in person, the celebration will be live-streamed. Please follow the link to register: https:\/\/event.forgetmenotceremonies.com\/ceremony?c=dd2c7f6b-687f-4f02-a85d-3ddbf4e710b5 August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebration-of-life"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 18:07:08","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\/73471","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=73471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73928,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions\/73928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}