{"id":13489,"date":"2025-01-31T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=13489"},"modified":"2025-02-09T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:51:40","slug":"lankford-ben-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lankford-ben-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankford, Ben Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary__text\">\n<div class=\"obituary edit-container\">\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ben Wright Lankford passed away on January 30, 2025, at 82. He was born at the Boyce Clinic in Hohenwald on September 15, 1942, to the late Hubert and Helen Duncan Lankford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ben was a simple man with a heart deeply rooted in the soil of his family&#8217;s century farm, established in 1846. As a fifth-generation farmer, he devoted his life to tending the land with the wisdom and traditions passed down through the years. Growing up on a farm, Ben had a deep love for all animals, but nothing compared to his love for horses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to his parents, Hubert and Helen, he was also preceded in death by his brother, Jim Lankford, and his nephew, Mike Lankford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He leaves behind to cherish his memory, his sister, Pattie Lankford Davis; sister-in-law, Betty Lankford; nephew, Chris Lankford (Rene); great-nephews, Jackson Lankford (Carol), Carter Lankford (Rebekah); great-nieces, Danielle Lankford and Daylyn Lankford; along with other relatives and dear friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be 4 Feb 2025 from 9:00 AM &#8211; 1:00 PM at the chapel of McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Lewis County. Funeral services for Mr. Lankford will begin at 1:00 PM with burial to follow in Swiss Cemetery, Hohenwald, TN.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wright Lankford passed away on January 30, 2025, at 82. He was born at the Boyce Clinic in Hohenwald on September 15, 1942, to the late Hubert and Helen Duncan Lankford. Ben was a simple man with a heart deeply rooted in the soil of his family&#8217;s century farm, established in 1846. As a fifth-generation farmer, he devoted his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lankford-ben-wright\/\"> 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":[2611,247],"tags":[194,38,596],"class_list":["post-13489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiscountyherald","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-davis","tag-duncan","tag-lankford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489","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=13489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}