{"id":3155,"date":"2015-11-16T12:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:43:50","slug":"ernest-j-hickson-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Ernest J. Hickson, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ernest-James-Hickson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3156\" title=\"Ernest James Hickson\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ernest-James-Hickson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Ernest James Hickson, Sr., was born January 20, 1934 went to be with the Lord November 10, 2015. Owner of Hickson &amp; Sons Maintenance Service. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He was a devoted husband and loving father. Preceded in death by his wife, Gladys Hickson; sons, Mark and Norman Hickson; granddaughter, Chalise Anderson. Survived by daughters, Vernita Lee, Norma (Kevin) Grant, Yvette (Henry) Williams, Jacquelyn (Terry) McGhee, Lelia (Bernard) Groves; sons, Ernest (Kassie McCurry) Rickson, Jr., Zanthur Hickson; a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Monday, November 16, 2015 from 11:00-12:00 p.m. at Knoxville Christian Center, 818 North Cedar Bluff Road with service to follow at 12:00. Interment to follow at 1:30 p.m., \u00a0E. Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, Lyons View Pike. Service to conclude with Military Honor Guards, dove release and blanket presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3155\"><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>Ernest James Hickson, Sr., was born January 20, 1934 went to be with the Lord November 10, 2015. Owner of Hickson &amp; Sons Maintenance Service. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He was a devoted husband and loving father. Preceded in death by his wife, Gladys Hickson; sons, Mark and Norman Hickson; [&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\/3155"}],"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=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}