{"id":57774,"date":"2026-08-22T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=57774"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:18:05","slug":"john-thomas-durbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/john-thomas-durbin\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thomas Durbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Thomas Durbin, age 91 of Guston, passed away on Friday, August 21, 2026, at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was born on December 14, 1934, to the late John Arvin and Thelma Victoria Basham Durbin. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Lottie Frances Durbin; two sons, John and Keith Durbin; four brothers, Billy, Albert, Phillip, and Damon Durbin; his sister, Wilda Rush and a grandson. <\/p>\n<p>He is survived by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Four daughters: Pam Howard, Pattie Embry, Cindy Deniz and Ruth Gail Mills;<\/p>\n<p>One step-granddaughter: Danielle Reece; <\/p>\n<p>Two sisters: Minnie Margaret Wright and Annette Green;<\/p>\n<p>Five brothers: Wade, Henry, Jimmy, Bobby, and Jerry Durbin; <\/p>\n<p>Eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at Salem Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg on Tuesday from 2 until 8 p.m. and at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of service on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thomas Durbin, age 91 of Guston, passed away on Friday, August 21, 2026, at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituaries","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-f1Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-09-02 19:07:50","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57775,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57774\/revisions\/57775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}