{"id":24226,"date":"2025-12-03T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=24226"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:19:12","slug":"carl-a-niemerg-72-of-effingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/24226-carl-a-niemerg-72-of-effingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl A. Niemerg (72) of Effingham"},"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><div>Carl A. Niemerg, 72 of Effingham, passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at Lakeland Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Effingham.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Per Carl\u2019s wishes, his body was donated for scientific study at the SIU School of Medicine in Carbondale. No public services will be held at this time. Arrangements are in the care of Bauer Funeral Home in Effingham.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl died on Tuesday, December 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carl A. 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