{"id":718,"date":"2011-09-16T03:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=718"},"modified":"2011-11-14T03:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T09:59:37","slug":"donald-spears-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Donald Spears, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Donald-Spears-Sr.-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-719\" title=\"Donald Spears, Sr. OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Donald-Spears-Sr.-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Spears, Sr., Donald<\/strong>&#8211; of Knoxville, departed this life on September 16, 2011 at Fort Sanders Regional.\u00a0 Preceded in death by his brother, William Stripling and aunt, Lucille Stephens.\u00a0 Survivors to include: wife, Patricia Spears; children: Michelle, Brian and Donald Spears, Jr.; grandchildren and great grandchildren; sister, Brenda (John B.) Nichols; and other relatives to include a devoted sister-in-law, Shirley Bruton and a devoted nephew, Eric Crawford.\u00a0 Thursday, September 22, 2011, the family will receive friends from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. with a memorial service to follow in the Unity Mortuary Chapel.\u00a0 Reverend Robert W. Monroe officiating.\u00a0 On Friday, September 23, 2011, interment will be at 11:30 a.m. at the Tennessee Veterans\u2019 Cemetery, John Sevier Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=718\"><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>Spears, Sr., Donald&#8211; of Knoxville, departed this life on September 16, 2011 at Fort Sanders Regional.\u00a0 Preceded in death by his brother, William Stripling and aunt, Lucille Stephens.\u00a0 Survivors to include: wife, Patricia Spears; children: Michelle, Brian and Donald Spears, Jr.; grandchildren and great grandchildren; sister, Brenda (John B.) Nichols; and other relatives to include [&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\/718"}],"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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}