{"id":4443,"date":"2020-09-01T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:42:19","slug":"mcdonald-rodger-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/mcdonald-rodger-e\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald, Rodger E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Rodger E. McDonald I<\/strong><\/em>, 70, of Hohenwald, passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at the Maury Regional Medical Center. He was born on January 16, 1949, to Buster and Doris McDonald.\u00a0 He married Nancy Smith. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rodger was a dedicated public servant. Having served in the Army 5th Infantry, he was a purple heart recipient. He continued to serve even after that by becoming a service member for the VA. He was a VA Benefits officer. He helped 50+ citizens receive their benefits. He worked as a plumber\/pipefitter for many years with TVA and the union-Local 572 in Nashville. He was a proud democrat and a supporter of anything American. He also was a huge supporter of everyone else\u2019s opinion. Rodger was beloved by his church family at Hohenwald Church of Christ, as well. Overall, he is best known for being a loving father and grandfather, and a great provider. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Along with his wife, Nancy McDonald of Hohenwald, he is survived by his sons, John Wayne McDonald of Hohenwald, TN, Rodney Coolidge McDonald of Hohenwald, TN,\u00a0 and R.E. McDonald of Columbia, TN, brothers, Kenny McDonald, Irvin McDonald, and Louis Bryan,\u00a0 as well as five grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Along with his parents, he is preceded in death by one brother, Norman Bryan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 10:00 AM, at the Hohenwald Church of Christ with Greg Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Piney Cemetery, Hohenwald, TN. Visitation with the family will begin at 8:00 AM and continue until service time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodger E. McDonald I, 70, of Hohenwald, passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at the Maury Regional Medical Center. He was born on January 16, 1949, to Buster and Doris McDonald.\u00a0 He married Nancy Smith. Rodger was a dedicated public servant. Having served in the Army 5th Infantry, he was a purple heart recipient. He continued to serve even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/mcdonald-rodger-e\/\"> 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":[166,247,2111],"tags":[907,298,343],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burial-records","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","category-obituaries","tag-bryan","tag-mcdonald","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}