{"id":1248,"date":"2012-06-13T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:29:31","slug":"johnnie-green-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Johnnie Green Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Johnny-Ward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1249\" title=\"Johnny Ward\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Johnny-Ward-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Ward, Johnnie Green <\/strong>&#8211; of Oak Ridge, TN, formerly of Philadelphia, PA, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 13, 2012.\u00a0He was born in Vaiden, MS on March 24, 1922 to the late Green and Isabelle Wilson Ward.\u00a0In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by wife, Rena Taylor Ward, brothers, Jessie Howard Ward, Arthur Ledill Ward, Otis Ward and Walter Ward, sister, Emma Jane Stewart Mattox, Callie Ward, Sallie Louise McCaskill, Lillian Berdia Skinner Woods, Christine Johnson and Rosie Pearl Ghosten.\u00a0He was united in holy matrimony to Rena Taylor on February 26, 1949.\u00a0There were no children born to this union.<\/p>\n<p>He was veteran of WWII, serving with the United States Army from 1942-1945.\u00a0He retired in 1985 from RCA.\u00a0He enjoyed traveling in the eastern U.S., fixing things around the house, talking to family and friends and listening to political talk shows.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ward leaves to cherish his loving memory: nephews, Clyde Fleming, Andrew Skinner, Billie Johnson, John D (Cassandra) Ghosten, Jr., Willie C. Stewart, Thomas C. (Colleen) Griffin, Rev. Walter (Brenda) Ghosten and Ronald Jay Griffin; nieces: Essie Stokes, Yvonne M. Mims, Alberta (Jessie)Hawthorne, Annie B. Jackson, Emma B. McCaskill, Helen Ghosten (Henry) Harris, Rosie M. (Andrew)King and Mary L. Ghosten; a host of great nieces and great nephews.\u00a0He also leaves his home church family, Union Baptist, Philadelphia, PA and many other relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, June 16, 2012, the family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m., funeral service to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel, 1425 McCalla Avenue, Knoxville, TN\u00a0 37915.\u00a0Reverend Hardil Thomas officiating.\u00a0Burial will take place in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1248\"><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>Ward, Johnnie Green &#8211; of Oak Ridge, TN, formerly of Philadelphia, PA, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 13, 2012.\u00a0He was born in Vaiden, MS on March 24, 1922 to the late Green and Isabelle Wilson Ward.\u00a0In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by wife, Rena Taylor Ward, [&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\/1248"}],"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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}