{"id":11433,"date":"2023-05-09T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:53:56","slug":"austin-willis-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/austin-willis-gene\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin, Willis Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Willis Gene Austin passed away at the age of 84 at Maury Regional surrounded by his loving family on May 7, 2023. He was born in Waterloo, Alabama on September 15, 1938, to the late James and Esther White Austin.\u00a0 Mr. Austin served in the United States Army where he worked as military police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He worked at Maury Regional Medical Center in plant operations before retiring. He enjoyed fishing, horses, family, and spending time with his Punkin. He was always one that was known for quoting the popular saying \u201cCowboy up and Get-r-Done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Austin leaves behind to cherish his memory his wife, Kelly Austin, his sons, Tommy Austin, Bill Austin, Brian Austin all of Alabama, and James Austin of France.\u00a0 His daughters, Chelsea Smith (Cody) of Summertown, Morgan Pratt (Daniel) of Columbia, Mackenzie Gowen of Columbia, and Amy Lyles of Alabama.\u00a0 In addition to his wife and children, Mr. Austin leaves behind 15 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be held on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from 5:00 &#8211;\u00a0 9:00 PM, and from 9:00 AM &#8211; 12:00 PM on Thursday, May 11, 2023 in the chapel of Adair Funeral &amp; Cremation Service.\u00a0 Services will begin at noon on Thursday with Josh Adair Officiating. Burial will follow on his private property in Summertown, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Willis Gene Austin passed away at the age of 84 at Maury Regional surrounded by his loving family on May 7, 2023. He was born in Waterloo, Alabama on September 15, 1938, to the late James and Esther White Austin.\u00a0 Mr. Austin served in the United States Army where he worked as military police. He worked at Maury Regional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/austin-willis-gene\/\"> 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":[3254,2611],"tags":[498,5114,678,4316,343,399],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adair-funeral-home","category-lewiscountyherald","tag-austin","tag-gowen","tag-lyles","tag-pratt","tag-smith","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","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=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}