{"id":859,"date":"2011-12-26T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=859"},"modified":"2012-01-13T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:29:35","slug":"anthony-eugene-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Eugene Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anthony-E.-Walton-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-860\" title=\"Anthony E. Walton OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Anthony-E.-Walton-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Walton, Anthony Eugene \u201cCool Uncle Tony<\/strong>\u201d- age 50, born to the union of Bernice and Lester M. Walton, Sr. on October 27, 1961.\u00a0Tony was a graduate of Austin East High School, Class of 1980.\u00a0 Tony was a U.S. Army Veteran and self employed as a Contract Electrician. Tony was a car enthusiast; his favorite model was the ultimate muscle car.\u00a0He was a member of IBEW 760.\u00a0Preceded in death by devoted father, Lester, Sr. and loving grandparents, Henry (Margaret) Walton. Tony leaves to cherish his memory: wife, Juanita Simmons Walton; step-daughters: Tyler and Lyigia Simmons; step-grandson, Keyland Simmons Moore; loving and devoted mother, Bernice Walton; devoted sisters: LeRhonda (Paul) Hill and Sherri Walton; devoted brother, Lester M. Walton, Jr.; 6 nieces and 1 nephew whom he loved as his own children; a host of other relatives and friends.\u00a0A special thank you to the doctors and staff at UT Medical Center Critical Care Unit.\u00a0On Wednesday, January 4, 2012, the family will receive friends from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with the funeral to follow at Eternal Life Harvest Center, Western Avenue.\u00a0Pastor James H. Davis officiating.\u00a0Interment will immediately follow at TN State Veterans Cemetery, John Sevier Highway where full military honors and dove release will conclude the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=859\"><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>Walton, Anthony Eugene \u201cCool Uncle Tony\u201d- age 50, born to the union of Bernice and Lester M. Walton, Sr. on October 27, 1961.\u00a0Tony was a graduate of Austin East High School, Class of 1980.\u00a0 Tony was a U.S. Army Veteran and self employed as a Contract Electrician. Tony was a car enthusiast; his favorite model [&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\/859"}],"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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}