{"id":24015,"date":"2019-08-21T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=24015"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:18:25","slug":"benny-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=24015","title":{"rendered":"Benny Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benny Edwards passed on Aug. 12, 2019, in Tallahassee.<br>\nBorn in Charleston, S.C., to his biological mother, Laura Lee Cockum, Benny was later adopted by his cousins, Johnny and Edna Edwards.<br>\nHe graduated from Taylor County High School. Benny enjoyed entertainment.<br>\nHe is survived by: Johnny Edwards Sr. (Marna), Booker Ed (Phyllis), Patricia Brown, Dorothy Grimes and a host of nephews and nieces.<br>\nArrangements for a Saturday service will be in the Friday, August 23, Perry News-Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Edwards passed on Aug. 12, 2019, in Tallahassee. Born in Charleston, S.C., to his biological mother, Laura Lee Cockum, Benny was later adopted by his cousins, Johnny and Edna Edwards. He graduated from Taylor County High School. Benny enjoyed entertainment. He is survived by: Johnny Edwards Sr. (Marna), Booker Ed (Phyllis), Patricia Brown, Dorothy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24016,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions\/24016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}