{"id":1394,"date":"2012-08-27T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T19:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:20:34","slug":"virgil-lee-sampson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Lee Sampson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Virgil-L-Sampson-OBIT-PIC2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1398\" title=\"Virgil L  Sampson OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Virgil-L-Sampson-OBIT-PIC2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sampson, Virgil Lee <\/strong>&#8211; born April 22, 1960 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, departed this life on Monday, August 27, 2012 at his home.\u00a0Virgil served in the United States Army.\u00a0He worked at Serene Manor Nursing Home for over ten years until his health began to decline.\u00a0Virgil was a loving and caring person who loved to help others.\u00a0He was a basketball and football sports fan who not only loved to watch the games but play them too.\u00a0Predeceased by his grandmother-in-law, Jennie Pannell and close friend, Bryon De\u2019Armond, he leaves to cherish his memory: wife, Pam Pannell-Sampson; stepdaughter, Zakiya Upshaw; father, Rev. Roy T. Sampson; mother, Corene Sampson; brother, Tyrone L. (Robin) Sampson, Sr. of Monroe, LA; sisters: Gina Brunson of Raleigh, NC, Margie (Clay) Johnson of Austin, TX, Monika Sampson- St. Bernard and Kimberly Williams, both of Pflugerville, TX ; mother-in-law, Frances McKenzie; sisters-in-law, Angela and Alicia Watts; brothers-in-law and close friends: Chris and Jackie Ray Watts and Ricky Pannell; god children: Anisha DeArmond, Airianna Miller and Ty\u2019mire DeArmond; devoted friends: Perry, Charles Prater, Skip, Charles Turner and the Lawrence family of Chattanooga, TN.\u00a0A special thank you to UT Hospice, Lynn Goins and Becky, RN.\u00a0On Thursday, August 30, 2012, the family will receive friends from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., funeral to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel.\u00a0Reverend Roy T. Sampson officiating.\u00a0On Friday, August 31, 2012, the interment will take place at E. TN State Veterans Cemetery, John Sevier Highway.\u00a0Military honors and full dove release will conclude the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1394\"><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>Sampson, Virgil Lee &#8211; born April 22, 1960 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, departed this life on Monday, August 27, 2012 at his home.\u00a0Virgil served in the United States Army.\u00a0He worked at Serene Manor Nursing Home for over ten years until his health began to decline.\u00a0Virgil was a loving and caring person who loved to help others.\u00a0He [&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\/1394"}],"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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}