{"id":116842,"date":"2025-09-30T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=116842"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:14:08","slug":"naomi-j-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/30\/naomi-j-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi J. Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Naomi J. Stewart, of Homosassa, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at Compass Rose in Lecanto. She was 86. Naomi was born in Green Township, Scioto County Ohio to Lacy P. and Eula (Bowen) Ratcliff on October 4, 1938. She worked in the Gahanna public school system in the cafeteria and enjoyed playing card games and visiting the casino. Naomi moved to Citrus County in 2023 from Whitehall, Ohio. Naomi was not only preceded in death by her parents, but also, her daughter Teresa Lynn Justice and grandson James Allen Stewart. She was also preceded in death by seven brothers Louis, Edward, Eugene, Bill, James, Jerry, Larry and two sisters Lillian, and Ruth.\u00a0 Those left to cherish her memory are her son James Stewart and his wife Cindy of Homosassa and daughter Michele Morris of Groveport, Ohio; four grandchildren Toni, Alison (Tony), Casey, Katelynd and three great grandchildren Tyler, Carson and Saylor. Naomi decided she didn\u2019t want a traditional funeral service. Her ashes will be laid to rest at Union Grove cemetery in Groveport, Ohio.\u00a0 If you would like to donate in remembrance of her life, please donate in her name to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, online at <strong><em><u>ALZ.org<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Arrangements are under the care of Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Cremation Care, Inverness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi J. Stewart, of Homosassa, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at Compass Rose in Lecanto. She was 86. Naomi was born in Green Township, Scioto County Ohio to Lacy P. and Eula (Bowen) Ratcliff on October 4, 1938. She worked in the Gahanna public school system in the cafeteria and enjoyed playing card games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":116843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116842","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\/116842","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=116842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116844,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116842\/revisions\/116844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}