{"id":1921,"date":"2013-06-08T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2013-06-13T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:41:38","slug":"ruth-ozelle-cowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Ozelle Cowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cowan-Ruth-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1922\" title=\"Cowan Ruth picture\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Cowan-Ruth-picture-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Cowan, Ruth Ozelle, age 96,\u00a0departed this life\u00a0on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at Tennova Health Care.\u00a0 A member of First A.M.E\u00a0 Zion Church, retired educator of Knox County Schools and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Preceded\u00a0 in death by husband, William Grant Cowan,\u00a0 her parents, two brothers and three sisters; niece Mary Florence Debro McClain and great great niece, Vicky Bobo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Loving survivors include, son, Dmitri Grant Cowan; granddaughters, Darlene (Scott) Green of Nashville and Martina Cowan; great grandchildren, Jase\u00a0and Ean Green;\u00a0 nieces, Marie Louise Estell and Barbara Jean Williams; great niece , Resa Ford and children Maya and Andriana;\u00a0 great great nephew, Dillard Estell of Columbus, Ohio; other great niece, Tatinytia Hughey; great nephews, Michael (Erica) and Reginald Cowan;\u00a0 great-great nieces and nephews, Jade, Rayanna, Jayden, Jackson, Reginald, Jr., Markese; devoted daughter-in-law, Olivia Cowan and other relatives and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Family will receive friends on Friday, June 14, 2013, from 3:00 until\u00a04:00 pm at First A.M.E Zion Church 1900 McCalla Ave. with funeral service to follow.\u00a0\u00a0Interment will be held at Highland Memorial Park\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 12:00 pm. Services to conclude with full dove release. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1921\"><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>Cowan, Ruth Ozelle, age 96,\u00a0departed this life\u00a0on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at Tennova Health Care.\u00a0 A member of First A.M.E\u00a0 Zion Church, retired educator of Knox County Schools and a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Preceded\u00a0 in death by husband, William Grant Cowan,\u00a0 her parents, two brothers and three sisters; niece Mary Florence [&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\/1921"}],"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=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}