{"id":9318,"date":"2022-10-04T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:25:55","slug":"ernest-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=9318","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Lee Matthews went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, September 22, 2022 surrounded by his family.<!--more--> Funeral services were held on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at Rudder Funeral Home with Bro. Steve Winninger officiating. Interment followed at Box\u2019s Cove Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his mother, Florence Clements; daughters, Michelle (Keith) Morris, Heather (Robbie) Kyzar; mother of his daughters, Goldie Matthews; sisters, Lillian (Ray) Mcgeehee, Lisa (Darryl) Bohannon, Donna Reed, Judy Young, Sue (Kermit) Higgins; brother, Paul (Cynthia) Clements; business partner and brother, Billy (Pam) Gullatt; grandchildren, Kimberlee Morris, Elijah Kyzar, Angel Kyzar; great-grandchildren, Autumn Morris, Amora Clark, Alexander Neeley, Luna Kyzar; special friend, Heather Johnson; several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews; cousins.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Matthews; sister, Stella Gullatt; brother, R.B. Matthews; stepfather, Andrew Clements; several aunts, uncles, nice, nephews and cousins; best friend, Charles Wininger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Lee Matthews went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, September 22, 2022 surrounded by his family.<\/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-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","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=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}