{"id":92551,"date":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=92551"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:58:50","slug":"james-j-thomas-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/26\/james-j-thomas-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"James J. Thomas, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James J. Thomas, Sr. died peacefully on Friday, May 26th 2017. He lived a full and courageous 80 years. He was born on November 22, 1936 in Norristown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>In 1961, he married Janice Dowell and together they raised 5 children; Lona-Maria, James Jr., Elizabeth, Joseph and Katie. He served in the Navy for 30 years and retired in 1985 as a Senior Chief. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion. He loved his family and loved his country. He fought hard and bravely. He is loved and will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>A private family service was held at Charles E. Davis Funeral Home on Memorial Day, May 29th, 2017. Military Honors at Florida National Cemetery at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James J. Thomas, Sr. died peacefully on Friday, May 26th 2017. He lived a full and courageous 80 years. He was born on November 22, 1936 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. In 1961, he married Janice Dowell and together they raised 5 children; Lona-Maria, James Jr., Elizabeth, Joseph and Katie. He served in the Navy for 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92551","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\/92551","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=92551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119280,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92551\/revisions\/119280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}