James T. Sawyer, age 68 –\u00a0Peach Orchard Road, Clinton, passed away Sunday, March 5 at his residence.<\/p>\n
Mr. Sawyer retired as Norris Chief of Police. He was a member of Tennessee Law Enforcement Officers Association, Fraternal Order of Police and Chief of Police Association. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.<\/p>\n
Survivors: wife of 50 years, Wanda Sawyer of Clinton; daughters and son-in-laws, Kathy Sawyer of Knoxville; Anita and Joel Hollander of Tulsa, OK; sons and daughter-in-laws, Eddie and Beverly Sawyer of Knoxville; Doug and Stephanie Sawyer of Andersonville; Sammy and Sawn Sawyer of Knoxville; Tommy and Dwaynia Sawyer of Clinton; Michael Sawyer of Nashville; parents, Tom and Edna Sawyer of Clinton; nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; sister, Ada Woods of Clinton; brothers, Ralph Sawyer, Billy Sawyer, both of Clinton; Lloyd Sawyer of Nashville and Howard Sawyer of Knoxville; several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
The family received friends 6-8 pm Monday, March 6, 2000 at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home, Clinton. Funeral service was 8 pm Monday, March 6, 2000 at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Mark Keith officiating.<\/p>\n
Interment was 10:30 am Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at Norris Memorial Garden. Grandsons served as pallbearers.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>8 March 2000<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Renee Scarbrough)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of James T. Sawyer, 2000: James T. Sawyer, age 68 –\u00a0Peach Orchard Road, Clinton, passed away Sunday, March 5 at his residence. Mr. Sawyer retired as Norris Chief of 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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}