{"id":2122,"date":"2025-02-09T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2025-02-09T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T22:21:27","slug":"john-dale-wagner-95-of-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/2122-john-dale-wagner-95-of-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dale Wagner (95) of Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>John Dale Wagner, age 95, of Newton, Illinois, passed away at 2:10 AM &#8211; Sunday, February 9, 2025, at HSHS Saint Anthony\u2019s Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services celebrating John\u2019s life will be held at 10:00 AM \u2013 Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at the First Baptist Church in Newton, Illinois, with Anthony Harris officiating. The internment will be in the Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Newton, Illinois. In loving memory of John Dale, memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church. Arrangements are under the care of the Meyer Funeral Home in Newton, Illinois. The obituary can be viewed, and condolences left&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyerfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Dale was born on January 7, 1930, in Jasper County, Illinois, the son of Raymond Edgar and Ethyl Alta (Wakefield) Wagner. He married Evelyn Yvonne Rude on April 9, 1950, and she preceded him in death on June 8, 2009. John was fortunate to find love again when he married Sharon (Haire) Richards on May 1, 2011. They spent the next thirteen years enjoying life. Together they traveled, spent time with family and friends, and laughed much. A life well lived, and a life well loved. John was a loving father, grandfather, husband and a beautiful soul who loved his church and his community. He was very proud to be a member of the First Baptist Church of Newton for 72 years. John Dale spent his working life doing what he loved, farming. He was a farmer south of Newton, operating a dairy and grain farm. Even in retirement, he would be found at the farm, staying in touch with all aspects. John also loved watching grandkids and great grandchildren in all their activities.<\/p>\n<p>John Dale is survived by: Wife \u2013 Sharon Wagner of Newton, Illinois Children \u2013 Karen Meinhart of Newton, Illinois; and Brian (wife Dorothy) Wagner of Newton, Illinois Grandchildren \u2013 Ryan (wife Honey) Meinhart, Nicole \u201cNikki\u201d (husband Jeff) Greathouse, Graham (wife Jane) Wagner, and Zachary (wife Beth) Wagner Great Grandchildren Brockton Greathouse, Ava Greathouse, Daniel Falcioni, Luca Falcioni, Matthias Meinhart, Alexa Wagner, Morgan Wagner, Andrew Wagner, Mitchell Wagner, Lance Wagner and Nora Wagner.<\/p>\n<p>John Dale was preceded in death by his parents, wife Yvonne, son-in-law William Donald \u201cBill\u201d Meinhart, siblings Raymond Wakefield Wagner Jr., Eugene O. \u201cGene\u201d Wagner, Evon Marie Stapp, Margaret Louise McClane, Melvin Merle Wagner and Gerald Ray Wagner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John died the morning of Sunday, February 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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