{"id":12656,"date":"2024-03-14T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2024-03-14T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:33:38","slug":"benjamin-benny-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=12656","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin \u201cBenny\u201d Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin \u201cBenny\u201d Matthews, age 65, passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. <!--more-->Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 2, 2024 from the Rice Cemetery. Bro. Nick West officiated. <br \/>\nMr. Matthews is survived by his daughters, Mandy (Jeff) Hopper and Emily Miller; sisters, Gaynell Holliday, Cheryle Matthews, Juna Matthews, Jana (Ardie) Stephens; brothers, Terry Matthews, David Matthews, Mike Matthews, Gilbert (Pamela) Matthews; grandchildren, Carter Hopper, Tyler Miller, Cayden Hopper and Adalynn Hopper; as well as many nieces and nephews. <br \/>\nMr. Matthews was preceded in death by his parents, Leonard Matthews and Lugene Moore Matthews; grandparents, Hodges Moore and Amy Wright Moore, George Walker and Martha Susan Sisk Matthews; brothers, Bobby Matthews, Daniel Matthews; sisters, Gayle (Aaron) White, Anna Ruth Elliott; and sister in law, Kathleen Matthews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin \u201cBenny\u201d Matthews, age 65, passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}