{"id":649,"date":"2011-10-14T06:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-10-21T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T11:31:16","slug":"james-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"James Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/James-Cunningham-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-650\" title=\"James Cunningham OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/James-Cunningham-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Cunningham, James \u201cDoodle Bug\u201d<\/strong>&#8211; of Knoxville, departed this life on Friday, October 14, 2011.\u00a0 He was born September 16, 1951 to the union of James and Modestine Martin Cunningham.\u00a0 James was educated in Knoxville City Schools and grew up in Bethel AME Church.\u00a0 He later became an employee at Baptist\/Mercy Hospital retiring with over 34 years of service.\u00a0 His hobbies were building model cars, gun collecting and always living life to the fullest.\u00a0 James loved his family and friends and to have known him, you would know you were in great company.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preceded in death by his father, James C. Cunningham, Sr.\u00a0 Left to cherish his memory: sons, Kevin (Christalyn Dale) Cunningham and Barin Harris; seven grandchildren; mother, Modestine Cunningham; siblings: Gloria Tipton, Pennie (Keith) Bragg, Clifford (Carla Morris) Cunningham and Richard (April) Hardin; a host of other relatives and friends too numerous to name.\u00a0 Friday, October 21, 2011, the family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. with the funeral to follow at Foster Chapel Baptist Church.\u00a0 Reverend Joseph Tolbert officiating.\u00a0 Interment will take place on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at Sherwood Memorial Gardens, Alcoa at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0 The service will conclude with a full dove release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=649\"><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>Cunningham, James \u201cDoodle Bug\u201d&#8211; of Knoxville, departed this life on Friday, October 14, 2011.\u00a0 He was born September 16, 1951 to the union of James and Modestine Martin Cunningham.\u00a0 James was educated in Knoxville City Schools and grew up in Bethel AME Church.\u00a0 He later became an employee at Baptist\/Mercy Hospital retiring with over 34 [&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\/649"}],"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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}