{"id":5451,"date":"2020-09-05T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2020-09-05T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:35:52","slug":"pitts-lauden-paul-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/pitts-lauden-paul-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitts, Lauden Paul Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Lauden Paul Pitts Jr<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0 69, of Hohenwald passed away January 17, 2020 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Mr. Pitts was born in Spartanburg, SC on June 13,1950 to the late Lauden Paul and Ona Thompson Pitts Sr.\u00a0 Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Phillip Pitts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Paul had a passion for the natural world and the history behind it.\u00a0 In his spare time, he would show off his craftmanship and take pride with a display in his garden. When he wasn\u2019t gardening, he could be found visiting local flea markets bartering for the best deal.\u00a0 Mr. Pitts was best known for his woodworking skills. He owned and operated his own businesses making everything from bowls to cabinets and furniture. \u00a0The craftmanship and detail of every piece he worked on would show his passion for the trade. On December 18,1999 he married Mrs. Vicki Rochelle Pitts and they were married 21 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Along with his wife he survived by his daughters \u00a0Caroline Pitts and significant other, Pierce, June (Ian) Kern, and Rebecca Pitts; stepchildren, Casey Hudgins, Derek Hudgins and Taylor Kimbro; grandchildren, Virginia, Peter, Olive and Charlie Kern; step grandson, Liam Barnes; siblings, David Pitts, Tim Pitts, Susan (George) Glenn and Tricia Williams and her significant other, Michael.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with family and friends will be January 21st at 10:00 am with the memorial service to follow at 11:00 in the chapel of the funeral home. His niece Lindsay Krinks will be officiating.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauden Paul Pitts Jr,\u00a0 69, of Hohenwald passed away January 17, 2020 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Mr. Pitts was born in Spartanburg, SC on June 13,1950 to the late Lauden Paul and Ona Thompson Pitts Sr.\u00a0 Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Phillip Pitts.\u00a0 Paul had a passion for the natural world and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/pitts-lauden-paul-jr\/\"> 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":[657,1297,636,3141,2451,3392,624,151,157,8],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adair-funeral-home","category-burial-records","category-obituaries","tag-barnes","tag-glenn","tag-hudgins","tag-kern","tag-kimbro","tag-krinks","tag-pitts","tag-rochelle","tag-thompson","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","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=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}