{"id":24477,"date":"2013-10-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/larry-paul-westendorf\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:30:26","slug":"larry-paul-westendorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/larry-paul-westendorf\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Paul Westendorf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Paul Westendorf<\/p>\n<p>Larry Paul Westendorf passed away while on vacation on October 16, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Larry was born in Renton on April 18, 1946 to Edgar and Audrey Westendorf.<\/p>\n<p>He spent all of his childhood living in Kent. He graduated from Kent Meridian Senior High School in 1964 and attended Centralia Community College for 2 years. Larry was drafted into the army in 1966 and served in Vietnam. Before going overseas he married his high school sweetheart Linda Williams on May 21, 1967. He worked as a supervisor in the printing industry for 40 years and retired in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Linda, children Lance, Lyal (Laura), Lori and grandchildren Brendan, Bralen, Bobbi, Layla, Logan and Lexi. Also survived by Jerry (Penny), Karen (Dave) Zabor, Cheryl (Gary) Leider, Randy (Cindy), and Joan (Pat) Michaud, sister-in-law Sue Williams along with many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of his life will be held on Friday, November 1, 2013 at 11:00 am at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Auburn, Washington. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Messiah Lutheran Memorial fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Paul Westendorf Larry Paul Westendorf passed away while on vacation on October 16, 2013. Larry was born in Renton on April 18, 1946 to Edgar and Audrey Westendorf. He spent all of his childhood living in Kent. He graduated from Kent Meridian Senior High School in 1964 and attended Centralia Community College for 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":24478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24477"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}