{"id":112288,"date":"2026-08-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=112288"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:03:49","slug":"renkema-wayne-age-60-grand-bend-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/08\/renkema-wayne-age-60-grand-bend-4\/","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 passed away after a brief medical illness with his partner Marion and his dog, Bailey Anne by his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Son of the late Peter and Anne. Brother of John &amp; Linda, and Ron &amp; Debbie. Dad of Mitchell, Lucas, Noah &amp; Emma, and Abbey. Beloved partner of Marion Taylor. Wayne welcomed Marion\u2019s daughter, Mariah &amp; Jared as his own daughter. Wayne also cherished his relationship with Marion\u2019s parents Doreen and the late Bill Taylor and her siblings Glen &amp; Lisa and Murray &amp; Brenda.<\/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 passed away after a brief medical illness with his partner Marion and his dog, Bailey Anne by his side. Son of the late Peter and Anne. Brother of John &amp; Linda, and Ron &amp; Debbie. Dad of Mitchell, Lucas, Noah &amp; Emma, and Abbey. Beloved partner of Marion Taylor. Wayne welcomed Marion\u2019s daughter,","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-112288","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":"2026-08-11 22:55:49","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-4\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112288","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=112288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112299,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112288\/revisions\/112299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}