{"id":11007,"date":"2023-01-18T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=11007"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:43:33","slug":"austin-carl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/austin-carl\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin, Carl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Carl Austin, 65, of Linden, passed away Saturday December 31, 2022 at his home after a long illness. He was born in Lexington to the late J.W. Austin and Hazel England Austin of Scotts Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He worked as a truck driver and heavy equipment operator until he retired in 2013. He had worked for the Henderson County Highway Department, Reeves Brothers Trucking and Graves and Graves Construction Company. He enjoyed tinkering with cars and tractors, raising a garden and raising livestock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Survivors include his wife, Linda Cox Austin; sons, Scotty (Courtney) Austin of Nashville, Daniel Austin of Linden, Marc (Kelly) Hicks of Gadsen, and Scott Heimeyer of Grady, Arkansas; daughters, Angela (Jay) Pollock of Hohenwald and Tina Heimeyer of Westmoreland; a brother-in-law, James Smith of Decaturville; 16 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews and a host of other loving family members and many friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, John Austin of Scotts Hill; and a sister, Doris Austin Smith of Decaturville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Funeral services were January 5 at Young Funeral Home, with interment following at Austin Cemetery in Linden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Young Funeral Home of Linden assisted the family with arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Austin, 65, of Linden, passed away Saturday December 31, 2022 at his home after a long illness. He was born in Lexington to the late J.W. Austin and Hazel England Austin of Scotts Hill. He worked as a truck driver and heavy equipment operator until he retired in 2013. He had worked for the Henderson County Highway Department, Reeves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/austin-carl\/\"> 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":[2611],"tags":[498,468,2531,5788,1466,9,343],"class_list":["post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiscountyherald","tag-austin","tag-cox","tag-england","tag-heimeyer","tag-hicks","tag-pollock","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","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=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}