{"id":11145,"date":"2011-11-03T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:17:44","slug":"ex-blake-high-school-star-dies-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11145","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Blake High School Star Dies Suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, October 30th, a family member discovered that a former Tampa resident and popular athlete died in his sleep.<strong> Mr. Willie Knight<\/strong> was 67 years old. His sister-in-law, <strong>Ms. Ann Jenkins<\/strong>, said he died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Savannah, <strong>Mr. Willie Knight<\/strong> moved to Tampa with his mother, the late <strong>Mrs. Wilhelmina Knight<\/strong>, and older brother, <strong>Jake Knight<\/strong>. The brothers, who were very close, attended the public schools of Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p>Both brothers attended Blake High School and were very popular athletes during the 1960s. <strong>Mr. Knight<\/strong> graduated in 1962, and entered the workforce. He worked as a Skycap for many years at a Detroit airport and at the Tampa International Airport. He retired in Tampa and lived here for several years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008,<strong> Mr. Knight<\/strong> learned that his brother had developed Parkinson\u2019s disease and he moved back to Savannah to become his caregiver, <strong>Ms. Jenkins<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his brother sister-in-law, and 21 children, numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, 21 nieces and nephews, and other family members and friends survive <strong>Mr. Knight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will take place on Saturday, November 5th, at 2 p.m., at the St. John Baptist Church, 522 Hartridge Street, Savannah, GA. Adams Funeral Home, 510 Stephenson Avenue, Savannah, GA 31405, is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Sunday morning, October 30th, a family member discovered that a former Tampa resident and popular athlete died in his sleep. Mr. Willie Knight was 67 years old. His sister-in-law, Ms. Ann Jenkins, said he died of natural causes. A native of Savannah, Mr. Willie Knight moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}