{"id":1522,"date":"2012-10-19T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2012-10-23T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:10:44","slug":"howard-lee-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Howard Lee Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Howard-Lee-Edwards-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1523\" title=\"Howard Lee Edwards OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Howard-Lee-Edwards-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Edwards, Howard Lee <\/strong>&#8211; departed this life on October 19, 2012.\u00a0 Howard was a Vietnam Veteran serving in the U.S. Army.\u00a0 Preceded in death by his wives, Angela Denise Edwards and Felicia Yarbrough, mother, Barbara Parks, father, Eddie Williams and grandmother, Willie Bell Edwards.\u00a0Survived by children: Pamela (Antjuan) Simmons, Orlando (Keiota) and Joshua Edwards, Tynetta Brewster and Keishawn Shade; grandchildren: Aloysius (Licia) Gregory, Arsenio Moulden, Keena and Darius Robinson and Uriyha Brewster; three great- granddaughters; siblings: Sharon (Dennis) Smith, Buford (Linda) Edwards, Pauline (Larry) Minnefee, Marvin Hall and Lorenzo Williams; devoted friends, Oscar Smith, Steve McMahan, Ernest Willis and Paul Brewster.\u00a0A special thank you to staff at James H. Quillen VA Hospital, Mountain Home, TN.\u00a0On Thursday, October 25, 2012, the family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. with funeral to follow at Unity Mortuary Chapel. Reverend Rick Rice officiating.\u00a0Friday, October 26, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., the interment will take place at Knoxville National Cemetery, 939 Tyson Street.\u00a0 The service will conclude with military honors and dove release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1522\"><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>Edwards, Howard Lee &#8211; departed this life on October 19, 2012.\u00a0 Howard was a Vietnam Veteran serving in the U.S. Army.\u00a0 Preceded in death by his wives, Angela Denise Edwards and Felicia Yarbrough, mother, Barbara Parks, father, Eddie Williams and grandmother, Willie Bell Edwards.\u00a0Survived by children: Pamela (Antjuan) Simmons, Orlando (Keiota) and Joshua Edwards, Tynetta [&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\/1522"}],"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=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}