{"id":2509,"date":"2022-07-15T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/?post_type=obituaries&#038;p=2509"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T18:17:09","slug":"robert-brown","status":"publish","type":"obituaries","link":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/obituaries\/robert-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2511,"template":"","class_list":["post-2509","obituaries","type-obituaries","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"sunrise":"December 22, 1931","sunset_date":"July 4, 2022","obituary":"<p>Robert was born December 22, \u00a01931 in Akron the only child of Anderson and Rachel Brown. He lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his loving grandparents, Nettie and William Brown. He graduated from Akron Public Schools and joined the United States Army where he excelled as a Specialist and served for three years . Robert married Rosemary Lyons \u00a0and together they had two children, Gloria \u201cShuggie\u201d and Kimberly Brown. He later found the love of his life, \u00a0Virginia Jones. \u00a0During his career, Robert worked at General Tire for 14 years, he also worked in the construction industry, as a long-distance truck driver and retired from Ohio Valley National Parks. After retirement Robert kept busy landscaping, \u00a0collecting cars, gambling and his extensive coin collection.<br \/>\nHe is preceded in death by his parents Anderson and Rachel Brown; grandparents Nettie and William Brown; \u00a0son Robert \u201cRicky\u201d Averiette and great-granddaughter Reagan Christian.<br \/>\nHe leaves to mourn his memory his devoted partner, Virginia Jones; children Gloria Johnson of Atlanta, Ga. \u00a0and Kimberly Brown of Akron; grandchildren, Lisa Averiette of Akron , Meia Christian, Akron, Ohio, Durrell Brown and Tiffany Short of Atlanta, Ga, special daughters Pamela Jeter and Jo Ann Jones; great-grandchildren, Darion and Daija White of Atlanta, Ga and \u00a0Zion Smith of Akron, \u00a0and host of other family and friends.<\/p>\n","Image":false,"funeral_location":"Sommerville Funeral Services 1695 Diagonal Rd, Akron, Ohio 44320 ","funeral_service_date":"July 15, 2022","viewing_time":"","service_time":"2:00 pm","video_link":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituaries\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituaries"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituaries"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sommervillefuneralservice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}