{"id":3363,"date":"2016-02-26T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2017-02-03T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:41:15","slug":"valerie-d-mcdowell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Valerie D. McDowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dove-doves-31209120-1024-7685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3364\" title=\"Dove-doves-31209120-1024-768\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dove-doves-31209120-1024-7685-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dove-doves-31209120-1024-7685-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dove-doves-31209120-1024-7685-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dove-doves-31209120-1024-7685.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Valerie Denise McDowell \u2013 of Knoxville departed this life on February 26, 2016. She worked in the healthcare field for several years and attended St. Paul Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by father, James Alexander. She leaves to treasure her memory her devoted mother, Joyce Alexander, fianc\u00e9 Claude Robinson, children, Troy, Kamara, Desmond and Chasity Erskine; 5<strong> <\/strong>grandchildren;<strong> <\/strong>brother<strong>, <\/strong>Joseph McDowell,; sisters, Kim (Lennis) Logan, and Debbie McDowell; stepfather, Richard McDowell; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends. On Sunday, March 6, 2016 the family will receive friends from 3:30- 4:00 at Unity Mortuary Chapel with the Home Going Celebration to follow at 4:00 pm, with Pastor Dexter Mims officiating. Interment to follow at Mt. Olive Cemetery with full dove release and blanket presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3363\"><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>Valerie Denise McDowell \u2013 of Knoxville departed this life on February 26, 2016. She worked in the healthcare field for several years and attended St. Paul Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by father, James Alexander. She leaves to treasure her memory her devoted mother, Joyce Alexander, fianc\u00e9 Claude Robinson, children, Troy, Kamara, Desmond [&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\/3363"}],"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=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}