{"id":37820,"date":"2026-09-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=37820"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:16:18","slug":"owen-byers-age-86-of-oil-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/obituaries\/2026\/09\/owen-byers-age-86-of-oil-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Byers, Age 86 Of Oil Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Owen Byers, age 86 of Oil Springs passed away on Monday, September 10th, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen Byers will be held on Friday, September 18th from 2-6pm at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needhamjay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Needham-Jay Funeral Home<\/a>, 4059 Petrolia Line, Petrolia with a Masonic Service taking place at 1:45pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A funeral service for Owen Byers will be hled at Oil Springs United Church on Saturday, September 19th at 11am. Interment in Oil Springs Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sympathy may be expressed through donations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwhf.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluewater Health Foundation for CEE<\/a> Hospital Cheques at the funeral home. Please call Needham-Jay Funeral Home at (519) 882-0100 for more details or if you make your donation online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owen Byers, age 86 of Oil Springs passed away on Monday, September 10th, 2026. Owen Byers will be held on Friday, September 18th from 2-6pm at Needham-Jay Funeral Home, 4059 Petrolia Line, Petrolia with a Masonic Service taking place at 1:45pm. A funeral service for Owen Byers will be hled at Oil Springs United Church","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2827],"tags":[3285,11233,11153],"class_list":["post-37820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-needham-jay-funeral-home","tag-owen-byers","tag-september-2026"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 11:57:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/obituaries\/2026\/09\/owen-byers-age-86-of-oil-springs\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37821,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37820\/revisions\/37821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}