{"id":91246,"date":"2014-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=91246"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:06:43","slug":"james-w-twitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/22\/james-w-twitty\/","title":{"rendered":"James W. Twitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES W. &#8220;JIM&#8221; TWITTY, Jr., age 78, passed away May 22, 2014 at Citrus Memorial Hospital. Jim was born on February 14, 1936 in Governor&#8217;s Island, NY to the late James W. Twitty, Sr. and Florence (King) Twitty. He attended the University of Florida and was a member of Delta Sigma Phi. He was a journalist and then bureau manager of the Tampa Tribune for 30 years. He served our country in the Army National Guard. Jim was two-time President of the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce and co-chairman of the Bicentennial Committee. He was known for his excellent cooking, enjoyed reading, writing and traveling. Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 57 years, Kathryn Twitty; sons Frederick &#8220;Rick&#8221; Twitty, Beverly Hills, FL, James W. Twitty, III, his wife Jennifer, Inverness; brother Gary L., his wife Claudia Twitty, LaJolla, CA; and five grandchildren Jeremy, his wife Bryceann, Jonathan, Jordan, Joshua, Nick and last, but certainly not least, his beloved dog &#8220;Boo.&#8221; He was a parishioner at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church for over 50 years. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. A celebration and tribute to Jim&#8217;s life will be held on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM at Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory. Please consider donations in James&#8217; memory to the Humane Society in lieu of flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES W. &#8220;JIM&#8221; TWITTY, Jr., age 78, passed away May 22, 2014 at Citrus Memorial Hospital. Jim was born on February 14, 1936 in Governor&#8217;s Island, NY to the late James W. Twitty, Sr. and Florence (King) Twitty. He attended the University of Florida and was a member of Delta Sigma Phi. He was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91246","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118715,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91246\/revisions\/118715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}