{"id":24407,"date":"2008-10-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/merton-l-vincent\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:15:36","slug":"merton-l-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/merton-l-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"Merton L. Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merton L. Vincent<\/p>\n

Merton L. Vincent, born December 19, 1941 and died on October<\/p>\n

22, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, after a courageous battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

He was a long time resident of the Kent, Auburn, Eastside areas.<\/p>\n

He retired from The Boeing Company in 1999 after 27 years. He was<\/p>\n

an engineer and manager on the B-2, International Space Station,<\/p>\n

Commercial Avionics Systems, E4B Command Post, and numerous<\/p>\n

research programs. After retirement, he stayed active in engineering<\/p>\n

with SARA (Scientific Applications and Research Associates). He<\/p>\n

loved golfing, backpacking, and doing church work. He was a member<\/p>\n

of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and led a group of people to India<\/p>\n

where they were responsible for building two churches and making<\/p>\n

lots of friends. He sleeps until the resurrection where he will be united<\/p>\n

with his loved ones.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife, Sandra; a daughter, Noreen Jenkins and<\/p>\n

son-in-law, Allen of Phoenix, AZ; a son, Brian Vincent and daughterin-<\/p>\n

law, Oksana of Honolulu, HI; two grandsons, Jaden and Jordan<\/p>\n

Jenkins of Phoenix; a brother, Mervin Vincent and sister-in-law, Sharon<\/p>\n

of Kent, WA; a sister, Gail and brother-in-law Ron McDonald<\/p>\n

of Swartz Creek, MI; and a stepmother, Jennie Hendricks Vincent of<\/p>\n

Fenton, MI; as well as several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

Memorial gifts can be made to Layman Ministries, 414 Zapada<\/p>\n

Road, St. Maries, ID for work in Tamil Nadu, India, care of Dr. S.<\/p>\n

Johnson, in memory of Mert Vincent. 139827<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merton L. Vincent Merton L. Vincent, born December 19, 1941 and died on October 22, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a long time resident of the Kent, Auburn, Eastside areas. He retired from The Boeing Company in 1999 after 27 years. He was an engineer and manager on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24407"}],"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=24407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24407"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}