{"id":13503,"date":"2025-02-09T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=13503"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T23:16:04","slug":"bernhardt-william-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/bernhardt-william-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernhardt, William G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">William George Bernhardt passed away on February 4, 2025, at the age of 83.\u00a0 He was born on June 27, 1941, in Mansfield, Ohio.\u00a0 William was the youngest son of the late Carl and Barbara Bernhardt (Weingartner).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">William is survived by his wife Margaret Bernhardt.\u00a0 His Children William\u00a0 (Nicole) Bernhardt, Shelly Hobbs, and Lanita (Timothy) Aupperle. His sister, Shirley Bertka, also survives him, along with his five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. William was the youngest of sixteen children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Known by friends and family as \u201cBill\u201d, he was always ready to lend a helping hand to others. Bill worked well into his seventies and lovingly cared for his late wife Nancy (Newby) until her passing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He spent his last few years with his children and his former wife Lanita Bernhardt (Orman).\u00a0 He enjoyed going to restaurants, nature watching, fishing, and watching westerns.\u00a0 Bill was a great jokester and never met a stranger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The family is grateful to the nurses and caregivers who helped with his care in his last years, as he battled melanoma.\u00a0 He passed peacefully at home with family at his side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There are no services planned. Adair Funeral &amp; Cremation Services is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William George Bernhardt passed away on February 4, 2025, at the age of 83.\u00a0 He was born on June 27, 1941, in Mansfield, Ohio.\u00a0 William was the youngest son of the late Carl and Barbara Bernhardt (Weingartner). William is survived by his wife Margaret Bernhardt.\u00a0 His Children William\u00a0 (Nicole) Bernhardt, Shelly Hobbs, and Lanita (Timothy) Aupperle. His sister, Shirley Bertka,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/bernhardt-william-g\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3254,2611],"tags":[6909,4997,6910,1077,6911,1365,6908],"class_list":["post-13503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adair-funeral-home","category-lewiscountyherald","tag-aupperle","tag-bernhardt","tag-bertka","tag-hobbs","tag-newby","tag-orman","tag-weingartner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}