{"id":4322,"date":"2011-08-30T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/anderson2\/?p=579"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:32:48","slug":"obituary-of-rubin-a-fox-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/08\/obituary-of-rubin-a-fox-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Fox, Rubin A., 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, June 17, 1976:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Briceville coal miner dies at 56<\/strong>.\u00a0 A Briceville coal miner, Rubin A. Fox, 56, Highway 116, Briceville, died at his home Sunday of a heart attack.\u00a0 He was in an employee of Southern States Mining Co. at Briceville.<\/p>\n<p>Although he worked only briefly for this firm, Fox, a Briceville native, worked for different mining companies most of his life, beginning at 17.<\/p>\n<p>In his spare time, Fox enjoyed hunting and fishing and being with his nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the United Mine Workers of America.\u00a0 A Mason, he belonged to the Crystal Lodge No. 616 F&amp;AM, he also was a member of Laurel Branch Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Fox was a veteran of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucille White Fox; sons, Charles, Edward, Lanny and Donnie, all of Briceville; three daughters, Mrs. Freddie Lou Forrest, Briceville, Mrs. Linda Green, Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Shirley Carroll, Clinton; brother Horace Fox, Cleveland, Tenn; sister, Mrs. Margaret Jones, Lake City; nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Laurel Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. Edwin Phillips, the Rev. Moss Beets and the Rev. Bill Lamb officiating.\u00a0 Burial was in Circle Cemetery.\u00a0 A Masonic memorial service was held Tuesday at Martin Funeral Home in Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>[Transcribed by Stephanie A. Hill from photocopy of microfilmed copy in the genealogy vertical files of the Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Courier-News, June 17, 1976: Briceville coal miner dies at 56.\u00a0 A Briceville coal miner, Rubin A. Fox, 56, Highway 116, Briceville, died at his home Sunday of a heart <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/08\/obituary-of-rubin-a-fox-1976\/\">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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-e-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}