{"id":114178,"date":"2026-11-06T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=114178"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:18:51","slug":"smith-merle-age-90-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/11\/smith-merle-age-90-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Merle (Age 90, Mitchell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114179 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2026\/11\/17520333-smith-merle.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" \/>Merle Smith, formerly of Mitchell passed away peacefully at Strathmere Lodge, Strathroy on Wednesday, November 4th, at the age of 90.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wife of the late Bill. Proud mother of Sylvia &amp; John, Barb &amp; Nick, Linda &amp; Bill, Brenda &amp; John, Brad &amp; Denise, Dale, Kevin &amp; Suzanne, Darcy, Greg, Rhonda &amp; Peter, and Rodney &amp; Melissa. Grandmother of 26 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. Fondly remembered by many in-laws, nieces, nephews and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visitation will be at Lockhart Funeral Home, Mitchell on Monday, November 9th, from 1 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. and on Tuesday from 9 to 9:45 a.m. followed by the funeral service at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merle Smith arrangements entrusted to Lockhart Funeral Home, Mitchell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockhartfuneralhome.com\/memorials\/merle-smith\/5435651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merle Smith, formerly of Mitchell passed away peacefully at Strathmere Lodge, Strathroy on Wednesday, November 4th, at the age of 90. Wife of the late Bill. Proud mother of Sylvia &amp; John, Barb &amp; Nick, Linda &amp; Bill, Brenda &amp; John, Brad &amp; Denise, Dale, Kevin &amp; Suzanne, Darcy, Greg, Rhonda &amp; Peter, and Rodney","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,8415,120,3910,11991],"class_list":["post-114178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-lockhart-funeral-home","tag-merle","tag-mitchell","tag-smith","tag-strathroy"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-13 19:20:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2026\/11\/smith-merle-age-90-mitchell\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114180,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114178\/revisions\/114180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}