{"id":1687,"date":"2013-01-25T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2013-01-29T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T23:23:35","slug":"elizabeth-a-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth A. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Elizabeth-A-Smith4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1696\" title=\"Elizabeth A Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Elizabeth-A-Smith4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Smith, Elizabeth Alford <em>\u2013 <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">age 87 of Detroit, MI transitioned home to be with the Lord on Friday, January\u00a025, 2013at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville, TN.\u00a0 She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Roosevelt Smith; parents, Freeman and Rosa Alford; brothers, Maceo, Deeman, Freeman, and Edward Lee Alford; sister, Deloris Alford Tims. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">She leaves to cherish her memory loving and devoted sister, Margie Alford Keese, Knoxville, TN; brother, Homer Alford, Compton, CA; four step-daughters, Dorothy Lovell, Rosetta Richard, Rosalyn Wooten, Roberta Smith of Detroit, MI; nieces and nephews, Sharon, Jackie, Teresa, Maceo and Michael; special friend, Dianne Collier, \u00a0Detroit, MI; and host of cousins, friends and her Church family whom she loved dearly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">She was a retired secretary and faithful member of Central CME Church, Detroit, MI.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The family will receive friends for one hour on January 31, 2013 from 5:00 \u2013 6:00 p.m. at Unity Mortuary Chapel, Knoxville, TN.\u00a0 The family will receive friend on February 4, 2013 from 11:00 \u2013 11:30 a. m. with funeral services to follow in Detroit, MI at Central CME Church, 7600 Tireman Avenue, Detroit, MI 48204.\u00a0 Interment will be at Great Lakes National Cemetery, Holly, MI immediately following the service.\u00a0 Pastor, Patricia A. Hazis, Officiating, Swanson Funeral Home, Detroit, MI (313-272-9000) and Unity Mortuary, Knoxville, TN in charge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1687\"><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>Smith, Elizabeth Alford \u2013 age 87 of Detroit, MI transitioned home to be with the Lord on Friday, January\u00a025, 2013at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville, TN.\u00a0 She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Roosevelt Smith; parents, Freeman and Rosa Alford; brothers, Maceo, Deeman, Freeman, and Edward Lee Alford; sister, Deloris Alford Tims. [&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\/1687"}],"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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}