{"id":56259,"date":"2026-05-10T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=56259"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:50:37","slug":"sophia-lillian-biddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/sophia-lillian-biddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Lillian Biddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Lillian Biddle, age 86 of Cadiz, formerly of Payneville, passed away on Thursday, May 7, 2026 at Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She was born in Brown County, WI on October 28, 1939 to the late Theresa Elizabeth \u201cSusie\u201d Durbin Nies and Raymond Ferdinand Nies. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Elmer Aloysious Biddle; step-son, William H. Biddle; brothers, Ferdinand \u201cFritz\u201d Nies, Earl Nies, Cyril \u201cCy\u201d Nies, and Norbert \u201cBrownie\u201d Nies; sisters, Theresa \u201cTerry\u201d Pansier, Rosemary \u201cRosey\u201d Lenss Phillips, and Rita Linzmeier.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One daughter: Donna Biddle of Cadiz<\/p>\n<p>Three step-daughters: Wilma Beasley of Brandenburg, Shelia Butler of Brandenburg and Marilyn Adkisson of Flaherty;  <\/p>\n<p>Three step-sons: Larry Biddle of Cadiz, Doug Biddle of Brandenburg and Don Biddle of Battletown;<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Payneville on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11 a.m. (EDT) with burial will follow in the church cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at the St. Mary Magdalen Church in Payneville on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until time of service.<\/p>\n<p>Bruington-Jenkins-Sturgeon Funeral Home in Brandenburg has been entrusted with the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsfunerals.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Lillian Biddle, age 86 of Cadiz, formerly of Payneville, passed away on Thursday, May 7, 2026 at Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-eDp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-20 00:38:28","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[69],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56260,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259\/revisions\/56260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}