{"id":1125,"date":"2012-04-11T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2012-04-20T14:52:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:52:02","slug":"walter-kemp-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Walter Kemp, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Walter-Kemp-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1126\" title=\"Walter Kemp Jr\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Walter-Kemp-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Kemp, Walter Jr<\/strong>. &#8211; born October 8, 1947 in Knoxville, Tennessee to the union of Mildred and Walter Kemp, Sr.\u00a0He attended Beardsley Jr. High and Austin High School. He served in the US Marine Corp, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Division 1<sup>st<\/sup> Platoon with medals and honors.\u00a0After 14 years, he retired from Knox County School System.\u00a0Preceded in death by parents, two brothers, one sister and a devoted friend.\u00a0Survived by his daughters: Connie, Tonya, Wendy (Vernon) and Kerri (Mac); sons, Alan and LaQuan; three grandchildren; one great granddaughter; sisters: Sheila (Charles) and Vicky (Gregory); brother, James; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.\u00a0The family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with the funeral service to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel.\u00a0Pastor Steve Simpson o fficiating.\u00a0Interment to immediately follow at Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, John Sevier Hwy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1125\"><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>Kemp, Walter Jr. &#8211; born October 8, 1947 in Knoxville, Tennessee to the union of Mildred and Walter Kemp, Sr.\u00a0He attended Beardsley Jr. High and Austin High School. He served in the US Marine Corp, 2nd Division 1st Platoon with medals and honors.\u00a0After 14 years, he retired from Knox County School System.\u00a0Preceded in death by [&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\/1125"}],"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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}