{"id":547,"date":"2011-07-21T16:13:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=547"},"modified":"2011-08-14T01:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T06:14:58","slug":"mary-ruth-sterling-winton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ruth Sterling Winton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MaryWintonNewspaper2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-586\" title=\"MaryWintonNewspaper2\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MaryWintonNewspaper2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Mary_Winton_program.pdf\">Mary_Winton_program<\/a>) Winton, Mary Ruth Sterling<\/strong>\u00a0(Big Mamma) went home to be with the Lord at St. Mary\u2019s Hospital on July 21, 2011. Mary was born on November 6, 1927 to the parents of Jessie and Claude Dean Sterling. She was the second of 4 children. She was a devoted member of Rogers Memorial Baptist Church for over seventy (70) years. She was preceded in death by: father, Claude Dean Sterling; mother, Jessie (Phillips) Sterling; brothers, Pless Dean and Hubert John Sterling, Robert (Bobby) Thomas; nephew. Left to cherish<strong> <\/strong>her memories: sister, Yvonne Patterson; devoted daughter, Mary Ruth (Phillip) Patterson; devoted grandson, Pless D. Sterling; devoted sister-in-law, Gwen (Von) Sterling; very devoted niece, Gwendolyn (Chris Tate) Sterling; nieces, JoAnn Glenn, Frances, Shirley Ann (Dan), Althea Pope, Jessie, Natasha (Paul) Charlene Buchanan, Patricia, Vernie McDuffey, Peggy Givens and Joyce Christopher and Shanna Jack; devoted nephews, Terry \u201cBig Stuff\u201d (Sabrinia), Larry \u201cLil Stuff,\u201d and nephews, Hubert Thomas, Claude (Veronica), June (Marcia) and Hubert (Stella), Reggie (Shirley) Givens and Willie Jack, life-long friend Florence Robinson; cousin, Mary Helen Allen; a host of other relatives and friends. Devoted caregivers, Rena \u201cLil bit\u201d Allen, Agnes Bush, Debra Lowery and Akia Jack; devoted friends, Elder Albert (Teresa) Martin. Special thanks to St. Mary\u2019s ER and CP \u2013 Unit, Amedisys Hospice, Dr. Raymond Brig \u2013 TN Cancer Institute, St. Mary\u2019s Infusion Center and Dr, Fred J. Bennett. Family will receive friends from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, July 25, 2011 at Rogers Memorial Baptist Church with funeral services to follow with Pastor James Davis officiating. Interment will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM at New Gray Cemetery. Services to conclude with full dove release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=547\"><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>(Mary_Winton_program) Winton, Mary Ruth Sterling\u00a0(Big Mamma) went home to be with the Lord at St. Mary\u2019s Hospital on July 21, 2011. Mary was born on November 6, 1927 to the parents of Jessie and Claude Dean Sterling. She was the second of 4 children. She was a devoted member of Rogers Memorial Baptist Church for [&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\/547"}],"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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}