{"id":24545,"date":"2016-10-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/jerry-charles-thomas\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:40:25","slug":"jerry-charles-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/jerry-charles-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Charles Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Charles Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Charles Thomas, 85, of Auburn, WA passed away unexpectedly October 9, 2016 at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry served in the Coast Guard and played and coached football at UCLA.  He was an entrepreneur, inventor and businessman. He loved restoring vintage cars and gardening. He had a contagious laugh. He loved great music. He worked in the Aerospace industry and was a pioneer of the herbal supplement industry.  He also was a business owner most recently of Sea Tac Pac packing company in Auburn, WA.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; sons Ric, James, John, Jeffrey, and Richy; daughters Paula, Kimberly, Kathleen, and April; stepchildren Cherie, Ken, and Marita; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at the Enumclaw SDA Church on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 5:00 pm. For those unable to attend, a memorial will be held on Saturday, October 15 at 5:00 pm in the same location. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Charles Thomas Jerry Charles Thomas, 85, of Auburn, WA passed away unexpectedly October 9, 2016 at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center. Jerry served in the Coast Guard and played and coached football at UCLA. He was an entrepreneur, inventor and businessman. He loved restoring vintage cars and gardening. He had a contagious laugh. He loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":24546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545"}],"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=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}