{"id":95486,"date":"2023-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=95486"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:35:49","slug":"nikkia-motika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/10\/nikkia-motika\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkia Motika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikkia Motika, age 96, of Summerfield, FL passed away November 10, 2023 in UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL. Services are Monday, November 27th at 11:00 AM at the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Fr Sergious Gerken, pastor of St. Raphael Orthodox Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Florida National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Nikkia was born in Columbus, OH to the late Thomas and Mary (Lagurrellis) Kellis on January 28, 1927. She moved to Florida from Ohio where she was employed as a Human Resource officer in a hospital. She was a member of St Raphael&#8217;s Orthodox Church<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased by her husband, George Motika on May 26, 2020. Also predeceased by her children, grandchildren, and a sister. Her other sister, Fany Kellis is surviving and lives in Summerfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikkia Motika, age 96, of Summerfield, FL passed away November 10, 2023 in UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL. Services are Monday, November 27th at 11:00 AM at the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Fr Sergious Gerken, pastor of St. Raphael Orthodox Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Florida National Cemetery. Nikkia was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95486","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\/95486","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=95486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117712,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95486\/revisions\/117712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}