{"id":143730,"date":"2018-04-26T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143730"},"modified":"2018-04-29T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:39:07","slug":"tom-arens-apr-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143730","title":{"rendered":"Tom Arens-Penner &#8211; April 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"common-layout\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ArensTom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-143804\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ArensTom-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Tom Arens-Penner, 55, surrounded by family, went to be with his Lord on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. \u00a0He succumbed to injuries sustained in a house explosion at his home in Cleveland, ND.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"obit-listbox\">\n<div class=\"obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-item\">\n<div class=\"obit-content\">\n<p>Tom was born June 10, 1962, in Langdon ND, to Peter and Beverly Arens. \u00a0At the age of 2 he went to live with his aunt and uncle, John and Helen Penner of Jamestown. \u00a0It was here at the Anne Carlson Center that he received years of \u00a0therapy for speech and hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from Jamestown High School in 1981 and continued to be a lifelong area resident.<\/p>\n<p>Tom loved small dogs and spent most of his life as a breeder of toy poodles and pomeranians. \u00a0He was very active in both the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Cleveland, ND and the United Methodist Church. \u00a0In fact, he was well known for his annual summer potluck where he would bring together many friends from both of his beloved church families. \u00a0Other interests were family, gardening, collecting lighthouses, and of course the constant care of his beloved pets.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by; two sisters, Kathleen (Jon) Finnson and Barb Arens, Langdon, ND; brother, Lenny Arens, Langdon, ND; niece, Lisa (Kelly) Thompson, Langdon, ND; nephew, Anthony (Kayle) Arens, Mora, MN; and numerous great nieces, great nephews, cousins, and very dear to Tom&#8217;s heart, Daniel Ringwelski.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is preceded in death by parents; Peter P. Arens, and John (Helen) Penner.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 29, at the Jamestown Seventh Day Adventist. \u00a0Pastors James Venegas and Darrell Losing will officiate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Williams Funeral Home with arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Arens-Penner, 55, surrounded by family, went to be with his Lord on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. \u00a0He succumbed to injuries sustained in a house explosion at his home in Cleveland, ND. Tom was born June 10, 1962, in Langdon ND, to Peter and Beverly Arens. \u00a0At the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143807,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions\/143807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}