{"id":87,"date":"2009-12-15T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=87"},"modified":"2012-01-13T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:36:06","slug":"homer-eugene-buffington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Homer Eugene Buffington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Buffington_Homer-Eugene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88\" title=\"Buffington_Homer Eugene\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Buffington_Homer-Eugene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Buffington, Homer Eugene<\/strong> succumbed to God\u2019s will, Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest child born to Walter P. and Ollie M. Buffington, October 18, 1938, he was a faithful and dedicated life-long member of Rogers Memorial Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves to cherish his memories, devoted and loving wife, Essieaurt Buffington; son, Jermaine E. Buffington; brother, James Buffington; three sisters-in-law; two brothers-in-law; mother-in-law, Josephine Brown of Knoxville; a host of nieces, nephews and cousins and a loving extended family \u2013 Quicks and Scotts.<\/p>\n<p>The family will receive friends Saturday, December 19, 2009 at Rogers Memorial Baptist Church, 520 College Street, 12:00-12:30 p.m. with funeral to follow.\u00a0 Rev. Michel S.E. Caldwell, officiating.\u00a0 Interment at Highland South Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers and other acts of kindness, please make donations to the Rogers Memorial Baptist Church Sunday School, to which he was very dedicated for 26 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=87\"><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>Buffington, Homer Eugene succumbed to God\u2019s will, Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center. The youngest child born to Walter P. and Ollie M. Buffington, October 18, 1938, he was a faithful and dedicated life-long member of Rogers Memorial Baptist Church. Preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister. He [&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\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}