{"id":109809,"date":"2026-03-10T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=109809"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:03:31","slug":"balan-viorel-age-83-listowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/03\/balan-viorel-age-83-listowel\/","title":{"rendered":"Balan, Viorel (Age 83, Listowel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2026\/03\/18303a02-balanv.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109810\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Viorel Balan passed away at Listowel Memorial Hospital on Monday, March 9th in his 84th year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Husband of the late Elena. Father of Mitch &amp; Sylvie, and Victor. Loved grandfather of Danielle, Natalie, and Samuel, and great-grandfather of Jude and Maeve.\u00a0 Brother of Jonel &amp; Mindra. Loving uncle of Joseph and Valentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held at the Eaton Funeral Home, Listowel, on Wednesday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The funeral service will be held at St. John the Baptist Romanian Orthodox Church, Kitchener, on Thursday, March 12th at 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 Interment in Williamsburg Cemetery, Kitchener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/memorials\/viorel-balan\/5693911\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/memorials\/viorel-balan\/5693911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viorel Balan passed away at Listowel Memorial Hospital on Monday, March 9th in his 84th year. Husband of the late Elena. Father of Mitch &amp; Sylvie, and Victor. Loved grandfather of Danielle, Natalie, and Samuel, and great-grandfather of Jude and Maeve.\u00a0 Brother of Jonel &amp; Mindra. Loving uncle of Joseph and Valentina. Visitation will be","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":[11956,5],"class_list":["post-109809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-balan","tag-eaton-funeral-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 09:15:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2026\/03\/balan-viorel-age-83-listowel\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109809","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=109809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109811,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109809\/revisions\/109811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}