{"id":162947,"date":"2019-01-24T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=162947"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:27:01","slug":"deputy-u-s-marshal-passes-service-sat-in-ashley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=162947","title":{"rendered":"Deputy U.S. Marshal passes, service Sat. in Ashley"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-162950\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/merkel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/merkel2.jpg 189w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/merkel2-124x175.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/>ASHLEY, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakotan who was a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service will be laid to rest in his hometown.Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Norman Merkel died in the line of duty due to a medical condition in the fitness room of the federal courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2019. He was 45.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel was assigned to the Marshals Service&#8217;s Southern District of Texas his entire career. He was a supervisor in Corpus Christi and task force commander of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>An Army veteran, Merkel was a deputy sheriff in McIntosh County, North Dakota, before joining the Marshals Service in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aberdeenfuneralhome.com\/obituary\/norman-d-merkel\">funeral<\/a> will be held Saturday in Ashley. A memorial service will be held Feb. 16 in Victoria, Texas.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHLEY, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakotan who was a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service will be laid to rest in his hometown.Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Norman Merkel died in the line of duty due to a medical condition in the fitness room of the federal courthouse in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162947","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=162947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162952,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162947\/revisions\/162952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}