{"id":10379,"date":"2022-07-24T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=10379"},"modified":"2022-07-24T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:19:55","slug":"lawson-jack-larkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lawson-jack-larkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawson, Jack Larkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jack Larkin Lawson of Clarksville TN passed away July 21, 2022 at Ascension Nursing Home in Centerville, TN. He was born in Centerville, TN on February 28, 1935.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jack was a 20 year veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars where he was a member of the Engineers, a Vietnam drill instructor, sniper, and all-around solid soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He was preceded in death by his parents, Una Bell Aydelott and Ottis Herschel Lawson, and his daughter, Suzanne Kathleen Wright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jack is survived by his loving, faithful wife of 67 years, Mary Sawtell Lawson, daughters, Karen Berlin (Alex) of Newton, North Carolina and Debbie Transue (Danny) of Centerville, a son, Kenny (Darla) Lawson of Cumberland Furnace, TN, and a sister,\u00a0 Billie Parham of Centerville,\u00a0 TN. He was &#8220;GP&#8221; to eleven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jack was a life long animal lover and avid vegetable gardener who shared his abundant harvests with anyone in the neighborhood . In fact, in years of an extra abundant garden, folks took to locking their car doors lest they wake up with a back seat full of corn. He was a good friend and neighbor to many in the St Bethlehem area of Clarksville. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There will be no service at Jack\u2019s request.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Larkin Lawson of Clarksville TN passed away July 21, 2022 at Ascension Nursing Home in Centerville, TN. He was born in Centerville, TN on February 28, 1935. Jack was a 20 year veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars where he was a member of the Engineers, a Vietnam drill instructor, sniper, and all-around solid soldier. He was preceded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lawson-jack-larkin\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1890,5480,69,3340,5479,5481,654],"class_list":["post-10379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-aydelott","tag-berlin","tag-lawson","tag-parham","tag-sawtell","tag-transue","tag-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}