{"id":3270,"date":"2016-12-06T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2017-02-02T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T02:29:32","slug":"sylvia-d-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia D. Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sylvia-D.-Murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3271\" title=\"Sylvia D. Murphy\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sylvia-D.-Murphy-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sylvia D. Murphy\u00a0went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on\u00a0December 6, 2016\u00a0at the age of\u00a066 in Clarksville, TN, surrounded by her loving family. Sylvia served the Knoxville community proudly as a highly respected child care provider for over 40 years. During her life she touched many lives in the Knoxville area, as well as in Clarksville, TN. Sylvia D. Murphy\u00a0was born in\u00a0Knoxville,\u00a0TN\u00a0in\u00a01949. She graduated from Austin High School in\u00a01966. She grew up worshipping at Mt. Pleasant church in the Lyons View community, as well as Eternal Life Harvest Church, prior to her sudden illness. Sylvia is survived by\u00a0her loving mother Mary M. \u201cMama Mary\u201d Davis, devoted daughter April Denine Chandler, son\u2019s Douglas Chandler Jr., and Herbert Jerome \u201cJay\u201d McMillan. She also leaves her devoted\u00a0five brothers Edward (LeeAnn) Davis, Ronald (Maxine) Davis, Stanford (Alicia) Davis, Stephen (Tanya) Davis, Theodore (Sheila) Davis, and sister Rosella Davis who loved her dearly<em>. <\/em>She leaves behind fourteen grandchildren (special grandsons Charles Jamison Jr., Marqui Jamison, and Jyran Mcmillan), three great grandchildren, multiple nieces, nephews, and many friends. She also leaves behind her devoted son-in-law Marion J. Smith Jr. Sylvia D. Murphy\u00a0is preceded in death by\u00a0her loving father, William E. \u201cPapa Will\u201d Davis. Sylvia will be dearly missed by all that she touched in her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3270\"><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>Sylvia D. Murphy\u00a0went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on\u00a0December 6, 2016\u00a0at the age of\u00a066 in Clarksville, TN, surrounded by her loving family. Sylvia served the Knoxville community proudly as a highly respected child care provider for over 40 years. During her life she touched many lives in the Knoxville area, [&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\/3270"}],"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=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}