{"id":3616,"date":"2017-06-27T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2017-06-29T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:38:13","slug":"lenson-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Lenson Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Harris-Lenson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3617\" title=\"Harris, Lenson\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Harris-Lenson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Lenson Harris, age 75 of Knoxville, transitioned from this life on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at Kindred Nursing \u2013 Northaven. He was born June 15, 1942 in Greenville, GA to the late Will Harris, Sr. and Gertrude Neal Harris. He was known by many as a deacon at Payne Avenue Baptist Church.\u00a0He is preceded in death by his parents and eight siblings. He leaves to cherish his memories his chidren: Samantha Harris and Cedric Harris; his grandchildren, Anaisha Harris-Brown, Avery Turman and Cedricka Harris; three great-grandchildren, Destin, Jaylen and Lexus Harris; and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. The Celebration of Life Service will be on Monday, July 3, 2017 at 12:00 PM in the William V. Powell, Jr. Memorial Chapel of Unity Mortuary, 1425 McCalla Avenue, Knoxville, with Pastor Richard Brown officiating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=3616\"><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>Lenson Harris, age 75 of Knoxville, transitioned from this life on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at Kindred Nursing \u2013 Northaven. He was born June 15, 1942 in Greenville, GA to the late Will Harris, Sr. and Gertrude Neal Harris. He was known by many as a deacon at Payne Avenue Baptist Church.\u00a0He is preceded in [&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\/3616"}],"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=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}