{"id":14874,"date":"2025-04-30T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=14874"},"modified":"2025-04-30T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:52:33","slug":"roy-etchison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=14874","title":{"rendered":"Roy Etchison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Etchison, age 84, passed away on Sunday, April 20, 2024. <!--more-->A graveside service was held on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from the Cedar Hill Cemetery. <br \/>\nMr. Etchison is survived by his children Terry (Phyllis) Sims, Donna (Rocky) Watson and Gary Sims; grandchildren, Alyson Mullinax, Terry Sims Jr., Michael Sims, Kimberly Bagley, Amy Blevins, Tamara Neeley and Derek Godwin; great grandchildren Libba Shepphard, Kady Sheppard, Taylor Sims, Makayla Sims, Shayla Bagley, Cole Blevins, Tanner Blevins, Braelyn Neeley, Finley Neeley and Cali Perry; sisters, Carolyn Ulrich, Ruthie Cousins and Jean Richardson.<br \/>\nMr. Etchison was preceded in death by his wife, Alma Etchison; mother, Ida Etchison; father \u201cBarr\u201d Etchison; stepdaughter in law, Annette Sims; and great grandson, Connor Garrison Sheppard.<br \/>\nMr. Etchison entered the army at 17 and served 9 years as a combat engineer. He also volunteered at the Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Etchison, age 84, passed away on Sunday, April 20, 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-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","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=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14875,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions\/14875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}