{"id":5415,"date":"2020-09-05T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2020-09-05T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T22:52:19","slug":"lafond-david-byron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lafond-david-byron\/","title":{"rendered":"LaFond, David Byron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>David Byron LaFond<\/strong><\/em>, 82 of Hohenwald, passed away at his home surrounded by his family. Mr. LaFond was born in Connecticut on October 29,1937.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">David Byron LaFond was said to be a quiet man with an easy smile.\u00a0 He would set goals and never settle for second best.\u00a0 He was class valedictorian, an eagle scout with full clusters, a lieutenant in the United States Navy, a Chief engineer for Hospital Corp. of America and State President of Florida hospital engineer\u2019s association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Above all his accomplishments he was a family man. All the families that he was part of were better because he was at the helm.\u00a0 He taught all that would take the time to listen to be the best they could be, and he would always be there to listen and guide them along the journey but also occasionally pull them out of bad situations.\u00a0 He was a humble man, never wanting to flaunt his accomplishments or his wealth of knowledge.\u00a0 With a smile and a joke, he was a man of great influence and love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Lafond is survived by his wife Carol Halbrooks LaFond; Children Michael, Mari and Liberty; three stepchildren, six grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Cancer has taken David from his earthly family, but we know that God can use a good engineer and family man.\u00a0 He will be greatly missed but his pain is over. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation will be held Tuesday November 5,2019 from 9:00-3:00 in the funeral home chapel.\u00a0 Funeral service will immediately follow visitation at 3:00pm.\u00a0 No burial will take place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byron LaFond, 82 of Hohenwald, passed away at his home surrounded by his family. Mr. LaFond was born in Connecticut on October 29,1937. David Byron LaFond was said to be a quiet man with an easy smile.\u00a0 He would set goals and never settle for second best.\u00a0 He was class valedictorian, an eagle scout with full clusters, a lieutenant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/lafond-david-byron\/\"> 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":[3254,166,2111],"tags":[176,3364],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adair-funeral-home","category-burial-records","category-obituaries","tag-halbrooks","tag-lafond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","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=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}