
{"id":9248,"date":"2010-03-11T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:11:53","slug":"obituary-ernest-lyle-lassiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/11\/obituary-ernest-lyle-lassiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Ernest Lyle Lassiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\nErnest Lassiter Sr., 73, of Chapel Hill passed away Thursday, March 4th, peacefully into the arms of the Lord at his home, after a courageous battle with a long-term illness.<br \/>\nErnest was a lifelong electrical contractor and builder in the Triangle area. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Dianna Lynn Lassiter, and grandson, Jeremy Joseph Lassiter.<\/p>\n<p>He was a loving husband of 53 years to Roxie Lassiter of the home and a compassionate father of three surviving children, Ernest Lassiter Jr. of Greensboro, Robert Lassiter of Chapel Hill and Brad Lassiter of Chapel Hill. He was also a playful grandfather to four surviving grandchildren, Dustin Gross of Boston, Mass., Courtney Gross of New Port News, Va., and Tyler Lassiter of Seffner, Fla., and the proud great-grandfather of two, Kaelynn Spencer of New Port News, Va. and Jayden Lassiter of Seffner, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of Ernest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life was held Sunday, March 7 at Walker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Funeral Home in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to UNC Hospice P.O. Box 1077, Pittsboro, NC 27312.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","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=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}