{"id":1451,"date":"2012-09-13T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-09-14T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:48:52","slug":"johnny-b-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Johnny B. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Johnny-B-Williams2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1457\" title=\"Johnny B  Williams\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Johnny-B-Williams2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Williams, Johnny B.<\/strong> &#8211; departed this life on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at Norris Health and Rehabilitation Center.\u00a0Mr. Williams was a charter member and deacon at Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church. He also sang in the PGMBC Male Chorus for many years. He retired from Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant with over 40 years of service.\u00a0Deacon Williams loved the Lord and lived life to the fullest enjoying fishing and hunting as well. Predeceased by his parents, he is survived by daughter, Amy Williams; sons, Michael Williams, VA and Melvin Bassett; 6 grandchildren; special companion for over 40 years, Elizabeth Bassett; devoted friends, Paul Reagan and Rudy Warner; a host of other relatives and friends.\u00a0A special thank you to Norris Health and Rehabilitation, Amedysis Hospice, his church family and Kasondra Tatum.\u00a0On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, the family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with the funeral to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel.\u00a0Pastor John Jordan officiating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1451\"><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>Williams, Johnny B. &#8211; departed this life on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at Norris Health and Rehabilitation Center.\u00a0Mr. Williams was a charter member and deacon at Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church. He also sang in the PGMBC Male Chorus for many years. He retired from Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant with over 40 years of [&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\/1451"}],"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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}