{"id":4497,"date":"2011-03-14T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:21:16","slug":"well-known-families-lose-their-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4497","title":{"rendered":"Well- Known Families Lose Their Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, two well known families lost the patriarchs of their families. Both<strong> Mr. King David Davenport (right)<\/strong>, 88, and Mr. <strong>James Rhodes, Jr.<\/strong>, 86, died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. James Rhodes, Jr<\/strong>., was the father of<strong> Jeffrey Rhodes<\/strong>, co-owner of Ray Williams Funeral Home. His son stated that he attended church at Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a longtime member.<\/p>\n<p>He was at home with his wife, <strong>Mrs. Mozelle Rhodes,<\/strong> when he became ill. A retired nurse, <strong>Mrs. Rhodes <\/strong>performed CPR until paramedics arrived. <strong>Mr. Rhodes<\/strong> died in the Emergency Room at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4499\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/James-Rhodes-Jr..gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4499\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4499\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/James-Rhodes-Jr.-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-4499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Rhodes, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mr. Rhodes<\/strong> is survived by his wife; daughter, <strong>Mrs. Debbie Griffin<\/strong>; 3 sons, <strong>Jeffrey<\/strong>, and <strong>Michael Rhodes<\/strong>, and <strong>Calvin Bexley, Jr<\/strong>., grandchildren, and other family members, church members, and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for <strong>Mr. Rhodes<\/strong> were incomplete at press time.<\/p>\n<p>The children and grandchildren of <strong>Mr. King David Davenport, Sr.<\/strong>, were present when he died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Davenport <\/strong>retired from U. S. Chemical &amp; Phosphate Company, now known as Mosaic Phosphate Company, after nearly 40 years and became active in the Real Estate business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Davenport<\/strong> had been ill for over 2 years, but became critical and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital. He is survived by 3 daughters, 6 sons, several grandchildren, other family members and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for <strong>Mr. Davenport<\/strong> were incomplete at press time. Ray Williams Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, two well known families lost the patriarchs of their families. Both Mr. King David Davenport (right), 88, and Mr. James Rhodes, Jr., 86, died on Sunday. Mr. James Rhodes, Jr., was the father of Jeffrey Rhodes, co-owner of Ray Williams Funeral Home. His son stated that he attended church at Greater Bethel [&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-4497","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\/4497","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=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}