{"id":5022,"date":"2012-02-05T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:54:31","slug":"sundays-obituary-rachel-nellie-green-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/05\/sundays-obituary-rachel-nellie-green-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s Obituary &#8211; Rachel Nellie (Green) Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the obituary of my husband&#8217;s great aunt, Rachel &#8220;Nell&#8221; Nellie (Green) Watkins, the sister of Fred Ozro Green.\u00c2\u00a0 It was published in the Kalamazoo Gazette on July 15, 1973.\u00c2\u00a0 I must admit, I have never seen so many spelling errors in a single obituary throughout all of my research&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_5023\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obituary_Watkins_RachelNell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5023\" title=\"Obituary for Rachel Nell Watkins\" src=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obituary_Watkins_RachelNell.jpg\" alt=\"Obituary for Rachel Nell Watkins\" width=\"227\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obituary_Watkins_RachelNell.jpg 227w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obituary_Watkins_RachelNell-70x150.jpg 70w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obituary_Watkins_RachelNell-140x300.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obituary for Rachel Nell Watkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WATKINS,<br \/>\nMrs. Rachel Nell<br \/>\nFormerly of 346 S. Rose&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Passed away July 13, 1973.\u00c2\u00a0 She was born April 16, 1888 in Kendal [sic\/Kendall], Michigan, daughter of Abner O. and Marian [sic\/Marion] Root Greene [sic\/Green].\u00c2\u00a0 She was a member of St. Augustine Church.\u00c2\u00a0 Was the widow of Wortherington [sic\/Worthington] G. Watkins who passed away July 15, 1959.\u00c2\u00a0 She is survived by a step-brother, Francis Fobers [sic\/Forbes] of Kalamazoo; one sister-in-law Mrs. John (Qave) Greene [sic\/Green] of Yuciapa, Calif; several nieces, nephews and cousins.\u00c2\u00a0 Friends are being received at Joldersma &amp; Klein Funeral Home. Graveside Services will be held Monday at 10 O&#8217;clock at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Rev. Charles Crowley officiating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the obituary of my husband&#8217;s great aunt, Rachel &#8220;Nell&#8221; Nellie (Green) Watkins, the sister of Fred Ozro Green.\u00c2\u00a0 It was published in the Kalamazoo Gazette on July 15, 1973.\u00c2\u00a0 I must admit, I have never seen so many spelling errors in a single obituary throughout all of my research&#8230; WATKINS, Mrs. Rachel Nell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-sundays-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}