{"id":768,"date":"2011-11-30T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=768"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:43:01","slug":"william-locke-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"William Locke Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/William-Locke-Holland-Obit-Pic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-773\" title=\"William Locke Holland Obit Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/William-Locke-Holland-Obit-Pic2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Holland, William Locke (Lil\u2019 Locke)-<\/strong> age 81, passed away peacefully with his sister at his side on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at Bordeaux Long Term Care Facility in Nashville, TN.\u00a0 He was the son of late Locke and Ruby Holland.\u00a0 He was also preceded in death by sister Harriette Holland Lee.\u00a0 He is survived by his brother, Rudy H. Holland of Los Angeles, CA and his sister\/ caregiver Paula Holland Smith of Nashville, TN.\u00a0 Locke was the father to 12 children and considered many more as his own and they are listed as followed: Sharon (Sherri), Jeryl, Tyrone, Cherry, Ricky, Deborah, Jamie, Aretha, LaTisha, Constance, Samantha, Taeesha, Leakisha, Travice and William; 25 grandchildren, nieces,\u00a0nephews to include: Gregory (Pat), Jeffrey (Brenda), Jackie (Geary), April, Denise, JoAnna, Jerry (Carolyn), Alec (Latasha) and his niece Michelle was\u00a0especially loved by him whom he called \u201cShelly-Bean\u201d and cousins, Lillie, Jacqueline, Wilson (Marsha) and Griffin (Erma); life long friend, John (Gadius); former wives, Mary Ella Snotgrass (deceased)\u00a0and Brenda Stovall; special ladies in Locke\u2019s life: Dorothy, Bessie, Georgia and Mary.\u00a0 Celebration of his life will be conducted on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 12 noon; Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at Rogers Memorial Baptist Church, 520\u00a0College Street in Knoxville, Tennessee. Eulogy by Reverend A.D. Baxter.\u00a0 Interment following services at Sherwood Memorial Gardens, Alcoa Highway.\u00a0 Body can be viewed after 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=768\"><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>Holland, William Locke (Lil\u2019 Locke)- age 81, passed away peacefully with his sister at his side on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at Bordeaux Long Term Care Facility in Nashville, TN.\u00a0 He was the son of late Locke and Ruby Holland.\u00a0 He was also preceded in death by sister Harriette Holland Lee.\u00a0 He is survived by [&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\/768"}],"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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}