{"id":1732,"date":"2013-02-08T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2013-02-13T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:16:02","slug":"patricia-ann-wright-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Ann Wright-Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Patricia-Wright-Blanket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1733\" title=\"Patricia Wright Blanket\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Patricia-Wright-Blanket-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wright-Ray, Patricia Ann, of Knoxville, TN &#8211; age 84 departed this life on Friday, February 8, 2013 at Tennova Residential Hospice with her family at her side.\u00a0She was a member of Greater Warner Tabernacle A.M.E. Zion Church.\u00a0She was preceded in death by her parents Charles and Flossie Clark.\u00a0She leaves to mourn her passing two devoted children; Kenneth W. (Theresa) Wright of Orlando, Florida and daughter Atty. Sheryl (Avon) Rollins, Sr. of Knoxville, TN; two devoted grandchildren; Cherie and Devon; one great-granddaughter, \u00a0Allison McCord-Jones of Atlanta, GA and one great-great granddaughter, Taylor Renee Smith; very special grandchildren, Avon (Elizabeth) Rollins, Jr. and Avondria Rollins; great- grandchildren, Giavonni Rollins-Andrews, Amariana Rollins-Steele, Nkosi Rollins, Avon Rollins III and Erica Rollins Fugate; many nieces, nephews and friends; devoted caregiver and family friend Teresa Whaley, lifelong best friend, Mrs. Andrenia Manning. Mrs. Wright was \u00a0affectionately known and loved as \u201cMama\u201d and \u201cMama Pat\u201d by her extended family to include Goddaughters; Jessica (Damien) Bowers, Jennifer (Lionel) Garrett both, Atlanta, GA and Angela Sparkman; Nashville, TN., Carol Scott, Concord, North Carolina, Rodney Wilson (Mabel), Pat Wykle, Cynthia (J.D.), Smith, Patricia (Lynn) Netherland, Julia Yette Rhinehart, Michael Stephens, Audria McFarland, Tanya (James) Page, and Commissioner Diane (John) Jordan.\u00a0The family would like to thank the physicians at U.T. Hospital with special thanks to Dr. Jennifer Brinkman of U.T. Family Physicians West, Dr. Evelyn Davidson and the staff and nurses at Hillcrest Nursing Home South.\u00a0The family will receive friends on Friday, February 15, 2013, from 11:00 to 12:00 Noon at Unity Mortuary Chapel with funeral service to follow with Rev. Charles N. Darden, officiating, prayers by Rev. Dr. John A. Butler, Presiding Elder and Rev. John Jordan, Pastor of Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church. Interment to follow at Mt. Olive Cemetery. The services will conclude with full dove release. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1732\"><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>Wright-Ray, Patricia Ann, of Knoxville, TN &#8211; age 84 departed this life on Friday, February 8, 2013 at Tennova Residential Hospice with her family at her side.\u00a0She was a member of Greater Warner Tabernacle A.M.E. Zion Church.\u00a0She was preceded in death by her parents Charles and Flossie Clark.\u00a0She leaves to mourn her passing two 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\/1732"}],"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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}