{"id":680,"date":"2015-09-20T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=680"},"modified":"2015-09-20T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:35:14","slug":"roscoe-j-jr-blanton-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/09\/20\/roscoe-j-jr-blanton-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Roscoe J. &#8220;JR&#8221; Blanton, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roscoe J. \u201cJR\u201d Blanton, Jr., 72 of Vine Grove, passed away Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents, Roscoe and Pauline; 3 siblings, Jerry, Sharon, and Jean.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by\u2026<\/p>\n<p>His wife: Shirley F. Blanton of Vine Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Two children: Hazel Denise Miller of Elizabethtown and Donald Lee Blanton of Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>One grandson and 1 great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Two step grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Four sisters: Grace Ivey of Mississippi, Frankie Saltsman ofVine Grove, Judy Voge of Florida and Joan Eastep of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Four brothers: Pat Blanton of Annette, Gary Blanton of Florida, Ricky Blanton of Florida and DeWayne Blanton of Eastview.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 19, 2015, at Coffey &#038; Chism Funeral Home in Vine Grove. Burial will follow in the Elizabethtown Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be from 4 until 8 p.m. on Friday and after 9 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers donations can be made to:<\/p>\n<p>St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Dept 142, Memphis, TN  38101-9908<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeyandchism.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roscoe J. \u201cJR\u201d Blanton, Jr., 72 of Vine Grove, passed away Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at his residence. He was preceded in death by his parents, Roscoe and Pauline; 3 siblings, Jerry, Sharon, and Jean. He is survived by\u2026 His wife: Shirley F. Blanton of Vine Grove. Two children: Hazel Denise Miller of Elizabethtown and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obituaries","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-aY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 05:44:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}