{"id":67489,"date":"2019-08-09T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=67489"},"modified":"2019-08-09T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:35:35","slug":"knox-mel-hullett-township-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2019\/08\/knox-mel-hullett-township-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knox, Mel (Hullett Township)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-67478\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2019\/08\/Picture-of-Mel-148x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Mel KNOX<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was\u00a0a farmer all his life, born and raised in Hullett Township, the son of Ernest Knox and Elizabeth Shobbrook.\u00a0 In 1970 he married the love of his life Barbara Irwin and together raised three children.\u00a0He was a proud father to Theresa and Steve Reminisky, Melanie and Mike McCowan and Chris and Amy Knox. He was loving grandpa to Brianna, Aidan and James Knox. Brother to Cindy Knight. Since the age of 14, Mel managed the\u00a0family dairy farm and acquired a wealth of knowledge and expertise in carpentry, welding, electricity, plumbing and machinery repair.\u00a0After retirement for the last 10 years, he put much of\u00a0his time and expertise into being volunteer property manager at Camp Menesetung.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nA celebration of Mel&#8217;s life will be held at Londesboro United Church August 12, at 11 AM, luncheon to follow.\u00a0Reverend Paul Ross and Susan McIlveen will be officiating.\u00a0Arrangements entrusted to <a href=\"https:\/\/falconerfuneralhomes.com\/home\/\"><b>Falconer Funeral Homes<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Clinton.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nMemorial donations would be gratefully accepted to Camp Menesetung or the charity of one&#8217;s choice.\u00a0Messages of Condolence for the Knox Family may be placed at www.falconerfuneralhomes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mel KNOX was\u00a0a farmer all his life, born and raised in Hullett Township, the son of Ernest Knox and Elizabeth Shobbrook.\u00a0 In 1970 he married the love of his life Barbara Irwin and together raised three children.\u00a0He was a proud father to Theresa and Steve Reminisky, Melanie and Mike McCowan and Chris and Amy Knox.","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1616,1612],"class_list":["post-67489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-falconer-funeral-homes-clinton-chapel","tag-mel-knox"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 06:16:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2019\/08\/knox-mel-hullett-township-2\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67492,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions\/67492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}