{"id":296897,"date":"2025-11-17T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296897"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:05:00","slug":"elmer-opatz-saturday-november-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296897","title":{"rendered":"Elmer Opatz &#8211; Saturday November 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/opatzelmer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/opatzelmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/opatzelmer.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/opatzelmer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/opatzelmer-175x175.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Elmer Opatz, 81, Valley City, ND passed away November 15, 2025, at Sanford Hospital in Fargo, ND. \u00a0Visitation will be Wednesday, November 19 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Fingal, ND. \u00a0A prayer service will be there starting at 7:00 Wednesday evening. \u00a0The funeral Mass will be celebrated Thursday, November 20 at 10:30 AM in Holy Trinity and he will be laid to rest in the St. Catherine Catholic Cemetery, Valley City. \u00a0The service will be live streamed, then archived, on a link provided along with his obituary on his tribute page at www.lerudmathias.com. \u00a0An online guestbook is available there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmer Opatz, 81, Valley City, ND passed away November 15, 2025, at Sanford Hospital in Fargo, ND. \u00a0Visitation will be Wednesday, November 19 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Fingal, ND. \u00a0A prayer service will be there starting at 7:00 Wednesday evening. \u00a0The funeral Mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":296898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296897","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\/296897","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296899,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296897\/revisions\/296899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}