{"id":3370,"date":"2016-04-03T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2017-02-03T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:46:42","slug":"september-aretha-c-massey-goolsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"September (Aretha C.) Massey-Goolsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September (Aretha Coleman) Massey-Goolsby age 68, of Knoxville born on February 2, 1948 went home to be with our Heavenly father on Sunday, April 3, 2016. She is a former DC resident of 35 plus years, a retired DC motor vehicle Distributor and Federal Government employee and a former Knoxville City Council Candidate in 2005. September was a loving caring daughter, mother, grandmother, sister-in-law, aunt, cousin and friend who would do anything she could to assist in whatever she could. She loved to shop, travel, write, decorate, debate; dress up, was<strong> <\/strong>bold, feisty, and glamorous and loved to visit family and friends. She was known for her home made cards, gifts, crafts and various performances. She will be truly missed. She was a faithful member of Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church on Washington Avenue and a childhood member of Greater Bush Grove Baptist Church in Mechanicsville. She is preceded in death by mother, Ruth Johnson Coleman, guardians, Arthur and Hattie Walton, first husband, David E \u00a0Massey, mother-in-law, Annie M. Massey, father-in-law, Freddie Massey, Sr<strong>.<\/strong> second husband, Marlon Goolsby and granddaughter, London Skky Barno. She is survived by her only daughter, Pleshette R. Massey, godmothers, Frankie Riddles and Laurease Harvey,<strong> <\/strong>sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, cousins, nieces, nephews and very close friends. The family will receive friends on Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. with Homegoing Celebration to follow at 6:00 p.m. with Pastor John B. Jordan officiating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3370\"><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>September (Aretha Coleman) Massey-Goolsby age 68, of Knoxville born on February 2, 1948 went home to be with our Heavenly father on Sunday, April 3, 2016. She is a former DC resident of 35 plus years, a retired DC motor vehicle Distributor and Federal Government employee and a former Knoxville City Council Candidate in 2005. [&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\/3370"}],"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=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}