
{"id":418,"date":"2007-06-14T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/06\/14\/obituary-richard-whitehead-sparrow\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T05:55:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T13:55:01","slug":"obituary-richard-whitehead-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/06\/14\/obituary-richard-whitehead-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Richard Whitehead Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Whitehead Sparrow of Chapel Hill died Wednesday, June 6, 2007. A graduate of Chapel Hill High School, Mr. Sparrow attended the University of North Carolina and was a World War II veteran having served in the Pacific theater. He was retired from the US Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial was held at 2:00 pm Saturday, June 9, 2007 at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 632 Laurel Hill Road, Chapel Hill. The Reverend Donnie L. Evans-Jones, assisted by Reverend Mary Peacock officiated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sparrow is survived by his wife, Frances Weston Sparrow; two daughters, Peggy Sparrow Lomax of Richmond, VA and Jean Sparrow Reed of Paducah, KY; three grandchildren, Keenan Lomax Smigelski of Richmond, VA, Kristen Reed Gallimore of Nashville, TN and Samuel Weston Reed of Los Angeles, CA; and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents, Samuel Jackson Sparrow and Lessie Canada Sparrow, and one sister, Louise Sparrow Oakley.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name may be sent to Aldersgate United Methodist Church or to the Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Whitehead Sparrow of Chapel Hill died Wednesday, June 6, 2007. A graduate of Chapel Hill High School, Mr. Sparrow attended the University of North Carolina and was a World War II veteran having served in the Pacific theater. He was retired from the US Postal Service. A memorial was held at 2:00 pm Saturday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}