{"id":1034,"date":"2012-02-21T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:19:49","slug":"melvin-c-jackson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Melvin C. Jackson, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NoPhoto-for-Unity-Obits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1035\" title=\"NoPhoto for Unity Obits\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NoPhoto-for-Unity-Obits-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jackson, Melvin C. Jr. &#8211;<\/strong> age 59, departed this life Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at his home.\u00a0He was an employee at Alcoa Aluminum Inc.\u00a0Working as a Crane Operator for many years, he was then promoted to Safety Coordinator.\u00a0Collectively, he had over 37 years of service at the plant.\u00a0Melvin was a devoted husband, loving father and grandfather and a friend to many.\u00a0Preceded in death by his parents, Melvin (Edwinna) Jackson, Sr.\u00a0 Survived by a loving wife, Frances; children, Cherlinda (Lamont) Bassham, Sr., Melvin C. Jackson, III and Edwinna (Matthew) Keith; nine grandchildren; brothers, Roderick (Johnelle) and Thomas (Audrey) Jackson; a host of nieces and nephews.\u00a0Monday, February 27, 2012, the family will receive friends from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. with the funeral to follow at Bethel A.M.E Church.\u00a0Rev. Johnny R. Watson officiating.\u00a0Interment will immediately follow the service at Mount Olive Cemetery, Maryville Pike.\u00a0A full dove release will conclude the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1034\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Jackson, Melvin C. Jr. &#8211; age 59, departed this life Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at his home.\u00a0He was an employee at Alcoa Aluminum Inc.\u00a0Working as a Crane Operator for many years, he was then promoted to Safety Coordinator.\u00a0Collectively, he had over 37 years of service at the plant.\u00a0Melvin was a devoted husband, loving father and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}