This worked! Thank you so much for your help!
This is the query for the custom post type:
<?php $obit_query = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'obituary', 'posts_per_page' => 12 ) ); while ($obit_query->have_posts()) : $obit_query->the_post(); ?>
It works perfectly. If I remove the post object code all the fields display correctly.
Thanks, we got this done yesterday by doing almost exactly that. 🙂