{"id":1278,"date":"2012-06-23T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2012-06-25T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:07:00","slug":"david-earl-rock-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"David Earl &#8220;Rock&#8221; Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Earl-Thomas-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1279\" title=\"David Earl Thomas OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Earl-Thomas-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thomas, David Earl \u2018Rock\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; departed this life June 23, 2012.\u00a0Retired from Knox County Schools, Maintenance Dept.\u00a0Faithful member of First Baptist of Roseberry City where he was a loyal deacon.\u00a0Preceded in death by parents, Aaron (Laura) Thomas, and wife, Mary R. Thomas.\u00a0Survived by wife, Linda Thomas; daughters: Juanita G. (Phillip) Harris, Felicia and very devoted daughter Carla Thomas; son, David Thomas step-daughter, Glenda \u201cDiane\u201d Johnson; all of Knoxville; seven grandchildren, four great grandchildren; mother-in- law, Velma Buford, sister\/brothers-in law; Brenda Lamar, Charles (Sherree), &amp; Dexter Buford; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends to include Nannie Moore, Daisy Latimer, William Rodgers, Sonny (Hannah) Ellis and Leroy Bishop. Special thanks to 3 West Staff, Fort Sanders Regional. On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, the family will receive friends from 10:00 am to 10:30 a.m., the funeral to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel.\u00a0Pastor Cedric Jackson officiating.\u00a0Interment will take place at Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, 5901 Lyons View Pike. The service will conclude with military honors and a full dove release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1278\"><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>Thomas, David Earl \u2018Rock\u2019 &#8211; departed this life June 23, 2012.\u00a0Retired from Knox County Schools, Maintenance Dept.\u00a0Faithful member of First Baptist of Roseberry City where he was a loyal deacon.\u00a0Preceded in death by parents, Aaron (Laura) Thomas, and wife, Mary R. Thomas.\u00a0Survived by wife, Linda Thomas; daughters: Juanita G. (Phillip) Harris, Felicia and very devoted [&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\/1278"}],"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=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}