{"id":112284,"date":"2026-08-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=112284"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:13:02","slug":"renkema-wayne-age-60-grand-bend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/08\/renkema-wayne-age-60-grand-bend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Renkema, Wayne (Age 60, Grand Bend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2026\/07\/c4fa9f54-renkema-wayne.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112282\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Wayne Renkema peacefully passed away on July 29th with his beloved life partner Marion Taylor and his dog Bailey Anne by his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Strathroy, he is the third son of the late Peter and Anne Renkema. Youngest brother and brother-in-law of John &amp; Linda and Ron &amp; Debbie. He was an incredibly proud Dad to Mitchell, Lucas, Noah &amp; Emma, and Abbey &amp; Hunter. Wayne was the beloved life partner of Marion Taylor, the love of his life and his greatest earthly blessing. Wayne welcomed Mariah &amp; Jared Skonieczny into his life, embracing her as his own daughter. Wayne cherished his special and spiritual relationship with Marion\u2019s parents Doreen and the late Bill Taylor. Wayne will be deeply missed by his Vitalpoint Church family, many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and neighbours. Whether among family, friends, neighbours, or complete strangers, he made people feel welcome, seen, heard and valued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps no one adored Wayne quite as unconditionally as his faithful companion, his Bailey dog, a constant confidante, and best friend right to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation at Haskett Funeral Home, Exeter on Wednesday, August 5th from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM. A service celebrating Wayne\u2019s life will begin at 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haskettfh.com\/renkema-wayne-william-of-grand-bend-and-formerly-of-strathroy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.haskettfh.com\/renkema-wayne-william-of-grand-bend-and-formerly-of-strathroy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Renkema peacefully passed away on July 29th with his beloved life partner Marion Taylor and his dog Bailey Anne by his side. Born in Strathroy, he is the third son of the late Peter and Anne Renkema. Youngest brother and brother-in-law of John &amp; Linda and Ron &amp; Debbie. He was an incredibly proud","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":[2255,33,12577,11991],"class_list":["post-112284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-grand-bend","tag-haskett-funeral-home","tag-renkema","tag-strathroy"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-10 02:26:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2026\/08\/renkema-wayne-age-60-grand-bend-2\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112284","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=112284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112293,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112284\/revisions\/112293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}