{"id":9559,"date":"2019-04-02T22:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2019-04-03T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T02:35:08","slug":"billy-r-witt-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2019\/04\/02\/billy-r-witt-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy R. Witt Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billy R. Witt Jr., age 61, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, April 1, 2019. He was surrounded by his wife and kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Billy is survived by his wife of 37 years, Terry Witt; children: Billy (Shannon) Witt, Brandon (Julie) Witt, Jenifer (Christian Dupree) Witt and Jeremy (Kimmie) Witt; grandkids: Kobe, Bailey, Karter, Kyson, Bentley, Brady, and Kyndal Witt; mother, Matilda Gloria Witt; sister, Cyndi Rockwell; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It was no secret, Bill\u2019s kids and grandkids were the highlight of his life. He loved spending time outside, whether on the ballfields cheering on the kids, or standing on a bank fishing. Bill loved to help anyone and everyone who needed it, and would sacrifice himself to make sure the people he cared about were taken care of first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A \u201cCelebration of Life\u201d will be held at 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Fire Church (Church on the Move), 901 S. Railroad Ave., Wellston, OH 45692. A dinner with food and fellowship will follow at Grace Baptist Church located at 240 S. New York Ave., Wellston, OH 45692.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Arrangements are under the direction of the Mayhew-Brown Funeral Home in Jackson and Southern Ohio Cremation Services. \u00a0Condolences may be sent to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mayhew-brownfuneralhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mayhew-brownfuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy R. Witt Jr., age 61, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, April 1, 2019. He was surrounded by his wife and kids. &nbsp;Billy is survived by his wife of 37 years, Terry Witt; children: Billy (Shannon) Witt, Brandon (Julie) Witt, Jenifer (Christian Dupree) Witt and Jeremy (Kimmie) Witt; grandkids: Kobe, Bailey, Karter,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2019\/04\/02\/billy-r-witt-jr\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9560,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}