{"id":76987,"date":"2018-01-06T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76987"},"modified":"2018-01-08T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:03:26","slug":"jerry-van-dyke-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76987","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Van Dyke passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76988\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76988\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jerry-Van-Dyke-1.jpg?resize=230%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76988\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Top Kone tells us the sad new that Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick Van Dyke has passed. Most recently, he portrayed Luther Van Dam on the ABC sitcom Coach, I&#8217;m old enough to remember him in a starring role in &#8220;My Mother the Car&#8221; &#8211; a short-lived and improbable sitcom about a fellow whose mother is reincarnated as his antique automobile. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/riOcOgUE-W8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There was hardly a comedy show on TV that he didn&#8217;t appear in during the early 60s. <\/p>\n<p>He was also a veteran, enlisting in the Air Force after the Korean War, he was in the Tops in Blue entertainment group. That&#8217;s him crouching in the front row;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/theresadoyle-nelson.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/jerry-van-dyke-reminding-me-of-my-father.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76989\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jerry-Van-Dyke-289x333.jpg?resize=289%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jerry-Van-Dyke.jpg?resize=289%2C333&amp;ssl=1 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jerry-Van-Dyke.jpg?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jerry-Van-Dyke.jpg?w=416&amp;ssl=1 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ms. Theresa Doyle-Nelson for the use of her photo above from <a href=\"http:\/\/theresadoyle-nelson.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/jerry-van-dyke-reminding-me-of-my-father.html\">her website<\/a> about her father who was also a member of Tops in Blue while Mr Van Dyke performed with the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Kone tells us the sad new that Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick Van Dyke has passed. Most recently, he portrayed Luther Van Dam on the ABC sitcom Coach, I&#8217;m old enough to remember him in a starring role in &#8220;My Mother the Car&#8221; &#8211; a short-lived and improbable sitcom about a fellow whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-k1J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}