{"id":107549,"date":"2025-11-07T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=107549"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:17:30","slug":"kempel-irene-age-93-goderich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2025\/11\/kempel-irene-age-93-goderich\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempel, Irene (Age 93, Goderich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107550 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2025\/11\/4e46aaf9-irene-kempel-e1762532230479.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" \/>Irene Kempel of Goderich passed away at the age of 93 at Alexandra Marine &amp; General Hospital on Monday, November 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Mother of Linda Brindley &amp; Dennis Demerling, Shirley &amp; Murray McKague, Karen &amp; Michael MacDonald, Barbara Smyth and Marilyn Smyth &amp; Chris Gosleigh. Grandmother of 6, great-grandmother of 9 and great-great-grandmother of 1. Predeceased by her husbands Evan Smyth and Ernest Kempel, twin sister Jean Thacker, parents-in-law, two brothers-in-law and son-in-law Bev Bromley.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at McBurney Funeral Home, Wingham on Wednesday, November 19th, from 11:00 AM until the time of the funeral service at 12:00 P.M.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcburneyfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/Irene-Smyth-Kempel?obId=46286472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irene Kempel of Goderich passed away at the age of 93 at Alexandra Marine &amp; General Hospital on Monday, November 3rd. Mother of Linda Brindley &amp; Dennis Demerling, Shirley &amp; Murray McKague, Karen &amp; Michael MacDonald, Barbara Smyth and Marilyn Smyth &amp; Chris Gosleigh. Grandmother of 6, great-grandmother of 9 and great-great-grandmother of 1. Predeceased","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,11541,58],"class_list":["post-107549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-goderich","tag-kempel","tag-mcburney-funeral-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:15:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2025\/11\/kempel-irene-age-93-goderich\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107551,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107549\/revisions\/107551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}