{"id":2252,"date":"2011-09-18T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/anderson\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:31:18","slug":"obituary-amos-leon-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/09\/obituary-amos-leon-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Amos, Leon, 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Obituary of Leon Amos, 1994:<\/h2>\n<p>Leon Amos, 83, of Lake City, died Sunday in his home.<\/p>\n<p>Born Feb. 2, 1911, in Campbell County, he was the son of Henry B. and Anna Craig Amos. Mr. Amos was a member of Lake City Church of Christ and was a coal miner for several years. He and his brother owned and operated Amos Texaco in leak City. Mr. Amos enjoyed making cedar picture frames.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amos was preceded in death by his parents; daughters, Sandra E. Amos and Marjorie Rutherford; brothers, Randall Amos, Clayton Amos, Harold Amos and Sid Amos.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Alma Towe\u00a0Amos of Lake City; four sons and two daughters-in-law, Arnold Leon \u201cBuddy\u201d and Elaine Amos of Chula Vista, CA; and Jerry Amos, Billy Amos and Darrell and Jackie Amos, all of Lake City; two daughters and sons-in-law, JoAnn and Jack Stevens of Harriman, Lorene\u00a0and Cecil Day of Beaver Creek, OH; 17 grandchildren; brother, Arnold Amos of Caryville; and three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Wilma Johnson of Oak Ridge, Mildred and Ben Dabney of Sandusky, OH, and Jean and Carl Beach of Clearwater, FL.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral service was Tuesday in Cox Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tim Mefford officiating. Burial was 11 am Wednesday in Beech Grove Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><em>Clinton Courier News, <\/em>16 Nov 1994<\/p>\n<p>[Courtesy of Brenda Foster]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituary of Leon Amos, 1994: Leon Amos, 83, of Lake City, died Sunday in his home. Born Feb. 2, 1911, in Campbell County, he was the son of Henry B. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/09\/obituary-amos-leon-1994\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-a-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}