{"id":14292,"date":"2025-11-01T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=14292"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:56:07","slug":"culp-john-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/culp-john-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Culp, John Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right_border\">\n<div class=\"c-box\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">John Thomas &#8220;Tom&#8221; Culp, 83, of Linden, passed away Wednesday October 15, 2025 with loved ones by his side. He was born in Linden to the late Roy Culp and Iris Moore Culp. He was a graduate of Linden High School, Class of 1960. Tom was a United States Navy Veteran. He was a long time member of the Cedar Creek Church of Christ, where he was the song leader for many years.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container w75 storyimage_centeralign\">\n<div class=\"imageDiv\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tom worked with his father on their family Century Farm for many years and was a long time employee of Perry Farmers Co-op until he retired in 2004. Besides farming, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, tractor pulls, telling stories of old times spent with his grandparents, playing games on his iPad, and he especially enjoyed time spent with his family.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to his parents he is also preceded in death by a son Corey Lee Culp and a sister Carolyn Culp Christy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tom leaves behind his loving wife of 58 years, Betty Lee Culp, his daughters Tammy (Jamie) Clifton and Trudy (Bobby) Hinson, grandchildren Evan Cunningham, Ciara Cunningham, Brody Hinson, Garron (Hannah) Hinson and Justin Sipes, 5 great-grandchildren Liam, Everett, Nora, Landon and Caroline, a step-granddaughter Katie (Michael) Hensley, step-grandchildren Jaylon and Olivia, a brother Paul Culp, and a host of other loving family members and many, many friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Graveside service was held Friday, October 17 at 1:00 pm. at Woods-Treadwell Cemetery in Linden.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"skel\">\n<div class=\"news-breaking-info you_might_be_interested_in\">\n<div class=\"style-head my_style_head\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thomas &#8220;Tom&#8221; Culp, 83, of Linden, passed away Wednesday October 15, 2025 with loved ones by his side. He was born in Linden to the late Roy Culp and Iris Moore Culp. He was a graduate of Linden High School, Class of 1960. Tom was a United States Navy Veteran. He was a long time member of the Cedar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/culp-john-thomas\/\"> 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":[3680,412,3925,425,64,144,369,3365],"class_list":["post-14292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiscountyherald","tag-christy","tag-clifton","tag-culp","tag-cunningham","tag-hensley","tag-hinson","tag-moore","tag-sipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292","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=14292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}