{"id":110970,"date":"2025-06-19T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=110970"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:02:21","slug":"lonny-berle-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/19\/lonny-berle-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonny Berle Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lonny Berle Smith, age 86, Inverness, FL passed away suddenly on June 19, 2025.&nbsp; Lonny was born in Russellville, OH on February 26, 1939 to the late Homer and Mildred (Sears) Smith and came to Citrus Country from Zephyrhills, FL.&nbsp; He served our country for 32 years as a Supply Officer in the U.S. Army and was also a Vietnam veteran. Lonny served in the Christian Church in many capacities over the years including elder, church secretary, account and maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Patricia Kirk Smith; 3 children: Regan Smith of Inverness, Shannon Black (Andy) of Waco, TX, and Cody Smith (Amy) of Alaska; and honorary daughter, Tyler White; 8 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Celebration of Life is planned for Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM at the First Christian Church of Inverness with Rev. Tom Thomas officiating.&nbsp; Committal with military honors will immediately follow the service at Florida National Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home With Crematory is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonny Berle Smith, age 86, Inverness, FL passed away suddenly on June 19, 2025.&nbsp; Lonny was born in Russellville, OH on February 26, 1939 to the late Homer and Mildred (Sears) Smith and came to Citrus Country from Zephyrhills, FL.&nbsp; He served our country for 32 years as a Supply Officer in the U.S. Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":110971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110972,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110970\/revisions\/110972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}