{"id":133316,"date":"2026-10-22T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=133316"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:53:05","slug":"former-staff-member-pat-smith-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/former-staff-member-pat-smith-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Staff Member Pat Smith Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to share that Patrick Fitzgerald Smith, 61, passed away Oct. 17. Pat was a member of the OWU mechanical trades staff from 1997-2007.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcomercolumbus.com\/obituaries\/patrick-smith?ttm_pid=212628105&amp;ttm_affiliate=legacypro&amp;ttm_affiliatetype=standard&amp;ttm_campaign=legacy\">his obituary<\/a>, his family shares: \u201cPat\u2019s legacy will not be measured by the things he owned or the years he worked, but by the family he loved, the values he instilled, and the countless ordinary moments he made unforgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling hours will be from 2-6 p.m. and services from 6-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at Newcomer Funeral Home, Northeast, 3047 E. Dublin Granville Road, Columbus, OH 43231.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in sending our condolences to all who knew and loved Pat, including his four children, Michael, Nicole, John, and Kathryn \u201cKatee\u201d Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Offices of Human Resources and the Provost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to share that Patrick Fitzgerald Smith, 61, passed away Oct. 17. Pat was a member of the OWU mechanical trades staff from 1997-2007. In his obituary, his family shares: \u201cPat\u2019s legacy will not be measured by the things he owned or the years he worked, but by the family he loved, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133317,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133316\/revisions\/133317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}