{"id":3459,"date":"2016-02-05T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2017-02-23T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:05:41","slug":"willie-j-lakes-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"Willie J. Lakes, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lakes-Willie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3460\" title=\"Lakes, Willie\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lakes-Willie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Mr. Willie J. Lakes, Jr. &#8211; of Knoxville, TN. was born July 23, 1977 in Atlanta, GA passed away Friday, February 5, 2016 at U. T. Medical Center. He was preceded in death by his mother, Dolly Faye Lakes; several aunts, and uncles. He is survived by his grandmother, Annie Rene Lakes; father, Willie James (Deborah) Lakes, Sr.; children, Asia, James, Semaj, Jicerra, and Jayceon: special friend, Lakeisha Baker; sister, Keisha, Cherry; brothers, Jason (Kristi], Gilleam Jacque Lakes (Zilphia), Willie James (Pedie) Grier; aunts, Anniedora, (Ridley) Laye and Patricia (William) Johnson, devoted aunts, Sarah Jones and Wanda Hines; he will be remembered by cousin, Dandris that was raised as a sister; cousins, Charles and Trey that were raised as brothers; a host of family and friends too numerous to mention. Special thanks to Terrance Curtis. The family will receive friends on Saturday, February 20, 2016 from 1:00 &#8211; 2:00 with Homegoing Celebration to follow at 2:00PM, Unity Mortuary Chapel with Overseer Farris Long officiating. Interment will immediately follow at Mt. Olive Cemetery. Services will conclude with full dove release and blanket presentation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3459\"><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>Mr. Willie J. Lakes, Jr. &#8211; of Knoxville, TN. was born July 23, 1977 in Atlanta, GA passed away Friday, February 5, 2016 at U. T. Medical Center. He was preceded in death by his mother, Dolly Faye Lakes; several aunts, and uncles. He is survived by his grandmother, Annie Rene Lakes; father, Willie James [&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\/3459"}],"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=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}