{"id":184826,"date":"2026-02-28T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184826\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:06:10","slug":"wilbur-goltz-may-12-1961-february-25-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/184826\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur Goltz &#8211; May 12, 1961 &#8211; February 25, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AZLE \u2013 Wilbur \u201cSkip\u201d Goltz Jr., 64, passed away Wednesday, February 25, 2026. Funeral Service: 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, March 2, 2026, in Mount Olivet Chapel. Wilbur was born on May 12, 1961, to Alma and Wilbur Goltz in Arlington, Texas. He graduated from Grapevine High School in 1979 and went on to study physics at the University of Texas at Arlington, receiving his bachelor\u2019s degree, all the while working as an outboard motor mechanic at his parents\u2019 boat dealership in Grapevine, following in his father\u2019s footsteps. He was always a hard worker, no matter how small or large the task. He was typically a homebody who enjoyed reading, a love he inherited from his mother. Survivors: Sister, Laura James and husband, Shawn; brother, Steven Goltz; niece, Diane Junge and her husband, Brandon; nephew, Patrick James and wife, Amanda; great-nieces, Faith, Ella, and Lily; great-nephew, Lucas; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to New Foundation Church, P.O. Box 131, Azle, TX 76098. MOUNT OLIVET CHAPEL Greenwood Funeral Homes \u2013 Cremation 2301 N. Sylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76111 817-831-0511<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>View more details from the <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.greenwoodfuneralhomes.com\/obituary\/wilbur-goltz\" rel=\"nofollow\">funeral home site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AZLE \u2013 Wilbur \u201cSkip\u201d Goltz Jr., 64, passed away Wednesday, February 25, 2026. Funeral Service: 2:30 p.m., Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2070,3191],"class_list":{"0":"post-184826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-obituary","12":"tag-syndication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}