{"id":9684,"date":"2011-09-07T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2011-09-07T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:43:27","slug":"funeral-services-planned-for-lee-roy-selmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Services Planned For Lee Roy Selmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral services for <strong>Mr. Lee Roy Selmon<\/strong>, retired NFL standout who died after suffering a massive stroke on Friday, September 2nd, will be held on Friday, September 9th, 10 a.m., at Idlewild Baptist Church, 18371 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Lutz. A wake service will be held on Thursday, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Exciting Central Tampa Baptist Church, 2923 N. Tampa Street. The family will be present from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, <strong>Mr. Selmon<\/strong> suffered a massive stroke at his residence and was admitted to St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital. He died on Sunday. <strong>Mr. Selmon<\/strong> was 56 years old.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Memorials<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three organizations, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, USF Football, and the Tampa Sports Authority, have designated a space at Raymond James Stadium for a temporary memorial for <strong>Lee Roy Selmon<\/strong>.\u00a0 Anyone wishing to leave tributes is free to place flowers, cards or remembrances on the tree-shaded mound in the middle of the mass transit drop-off turnaround on Dale Mabry.<\/p>\n<p>Signage for the drop off location near the pedestrian footbridge crossing over Dale Mabry will be displayed Tuesday after 5 p.m., September 6, and drop-offs may begin Tuesday after 5 p.m. and continue through game day on Sunday, September 11.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>In Lieu Of Flowers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Selmon<\/strong> Family has suggested that in lieu of flowers, those wishing to further honor <strong>Mr. Selmon\u2019s<\/strong> memory can donate to Abe Brown Ministries at (813) 248-3224 or the University of South Florida Foundation Partnership for Athletics (813) 974-2125.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Funeral Services<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Selmon<\/strong> is survived by his wife, <strong>Mrs. Clabra Selmon<\/strong>, 2 sons, 2 daughters, siblings, and other family members and friends. Wilson\u2019s Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>City Editor Iris B. Holton can be contacted at (813) 248-1921; or emailed at iholton@flsentinel.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral services for Mr. Lee Roy Selmon, retired NFL standout who died after suffering a massive stroke on Friday, September 2nd, will be held on Friday, September 9th, 10 a.m., at Idlewild Baptist Church, 18371 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Lutz. A wake service will be held on Thursday, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Exciting [&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-9684","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\/9684","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=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}