{"id":74425,"date":"2020-04-25T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=74425"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:29:25","slug":"smith-jim-age-81-stratford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/04\/smith-jim-age-81-stratford\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Jim (Age 79, Stratford)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-74633 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2020\/04\/8a248103-jim-smith-pic-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jim\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>James Douglas\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Stratford p<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assed away peacefully at his home in Cedarcroft Place Retirement Residence in the early hours of April 23rd 2020 in his 80th year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Huron East (Morris Township) on February 6th, 1941.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beloved husband to the late Marilyn (Mary) (2003).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father to John and Jimmy both of London.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Older brother to Don of Ottawa, Rae of Brussels and Douglas &amp; Colleen of Guelph.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survived by nieces and nephews: Karl, Kenneth, Leif, Kassandra, Jessica, Matthew, Andrew, Shirin and Anisa.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beloved son of the late Douglas Smith (1956) &amp; the late Adah Smith nee Grasby (2009).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Predeceased by sister Joan (1956) and brothers Larry (1996) and Robert (2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cremation has taken place.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A memorial to celebrate the life of Jim will be held at a later date.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In lieu of flowers and as expressions of sympathy donations to the Salvation Army Stratford Branch would be appreciated.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Condolences may be left at <a href=\"https:\/\/wgyoungfuneralhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wgyoungfuneralhome.com<\/a> or sent to Box 173 Brussels, N0G 1H0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Douglas\u00a0of Stratford passed away peacefully at his home in Cedarcroft Place Retirement Residence in the early hours of April 23rd 2020 in his 80th year.\u00a0\u00a0 Born in Huron East (Morris Township) on February 6th, 1941.\u00a0\u00a0Beloved husband to the late Marilyn (Mary) (2003).\u00a0Father to John and Jimmy both of London.\u00a0Older brother to Don of Ottawa,","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3683,3751,3863,3864,572,3815],"class_list":["post-74425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-april-2020","tag-douglas","tag-james","tag-jim-smith","tag-stratford","tag-wg-young-funeral-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 10:44:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/04\/smith-jim-age-81-stratford\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74635,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74425\/revisions\/74635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}