{"id":8440,"date":"2022-06-22T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:54:24","slug":"james-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=8440","title":{"rendered":"James Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. James Edward Sparks, 86 of Scottsboro, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2022.<!--more--> Funeral services were held on Saturday, June 11, 2022 at Scottsboro Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Gardner and Rev. Duaine Griggs officiating. Burial followed at Pinehaven Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>He was a devout Christian, member of Cloud Springs Baptist church, mason and shriner. He retired from TVA.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Louise Sparks; daughters, Jimmie (Charles) Thomas, Betty (Lloyd) Hall; son, Kenny (Jean) Sparks; stepchildren, Pam (Brian) Fitzpatrick, Patricia (Heath) Cloud; grandchildren, Kevin Thomas, Carrie Thomas, Jamie Sharp, Heath Sparks; step-grandchildren, Ethan Cloud, Mac Fitzpatrick, Matt Fitzpatrick; great-grandchildren, Mason Sharp, Lauren Sharp, Addison Sparks, Cooper Sparks; brother, Bill (Cecilia) Sparks. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Dixie Sparks; parents, S.L. and Bessie Sparks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. James Edward Sparks, 86 of Scottsboro, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2022.<\/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-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","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=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8441,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions\/8441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}