{"id":23981,"date":"2013-06-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/howard-m-erickson\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T00:10:32","slug":"howard-m-erickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/howard-m-erickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard M. Erickson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard M. Erickson<\/p>\n<p>Howard M. Erickson, 93, born May 18, 1920 in Sumner, died of natural causes June 8, 2013.  A long time Kent resident and a proud Teamster tank-truck driver for 37 years he retired in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Preceded in death by his high school sweetheart and first wife of<\/p>\n<p>42 years Elsie Wallace Erickson; and children Eileen Baumgardner, Lois Ann, Donald, Howie and Dale.<\/p>\n<p>Survived by wife Anell; stepdaughters Kimberly Wigginton and Karla Hansen, son Gene (Naomi) Erickson, and \u201c#5 other son\u201d Roy Baumgardner and many grand, great-grand and great-great- grandchildren.  Also missed by his loving pet companion \u201cKitty Red\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks to the staff and residents of Kentridge Elderly Living for their loving care and friendship. Remembrances can be made to Kent American Legion, Post #15.<\/p>\n<p>Interment Monday, June 24 at 1:30p.m. at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Sign the online guestbook at www.edline-yahn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard M. Erickson Howard M. Erickson, 93, born May 18, 1920 in Sumner, died of natural causes June 8, 2013. A long time Kent resident and a proud Teamster tank-truck driver for 37 years he retired in 1985. Preceded in death by his high school sweetheart and first wife of 42 years Elsie Wallace Erickson; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}