{"id":51055,"date":"2026-02-13T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=51055"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:42:44","slug":"johnny-jj-frank-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=51055","title":{"rendered":"Johnny &#8220;JJ&#8221; Frank Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Johnny \u201cJJ\u201d Frank Morris passed away peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 6, 2026. He was 73. He was born in Jacksonville on June 10, 1952. He was preceded in death by: his mother, Eliza Morris; father, Clayton Dixon; brother, Willie C. Morris; and sisters, Dorothy Adams, Lossie M. McDuffie, Lucille, Flowers, Yvonne Bowles and Brenda Morris. He leaves to mourn two sisters, Willie M. Donaldson (K.C.) and Patricia Harris (Sylvester); along with special friends, Steve and Anne Falk. He also leaves to cherish his memory a host of family, nieces, nephews and friends. A celebration of life will be held in his honor during graveside services held Friday, Feb. 13, at Springhill Cemetery, starting at 11 a.m. Evans Walker Funeral Home of Perry is in charge of the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny \u201cJJ\u201d Frank Morris passed away peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 6, 2026. He was 73. He was born in Jacksonville on June 10, 1952. He was preceded in death by: his mother, Eliza Morris; father, Clayton Dixon; brother, Willie C. Morris; and sisters, Dorothy Adams, Lossie M. McDuffie, Lucille, Flowers, Yvonne Bowles and [&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-51055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51055","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=51055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51056,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51055\/revisions\/51056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}