{"id":35441,"date":"2018-06-21T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/melinda-lee-schmitt\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T18:08:28","slug":"melinda-lee-schmitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/melinda-lee-schmitt\/","title":{"rendered":"MELINDA LEE SCHMITT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Lee Schmitt, 51, passed away January 14, 2018 after a lengthy illness, with her family by her side.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda was born November 27, 1966, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Adolph &ldquo;Duff&rdquo; and Dian (Breshear) Schmitt. She lived her life in Alaska and Washington and was employed by Scholastic Book Fairs for 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda was preceded in death by her parents and step-father, Jim Schmitt. She is survived by her children, Joshua Schmitt and Amanda Perry; sisters, Monica Schmitt, Reean (Dan) Pitts, Kimberli Schmitt and brother, Shawn Schmitt, and their families.<\/p>\n<p>A Celebration of Life will be held @ 4:00pm on August 11th at Morrill Meadows Park in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Lee Schmitt, 51, passed away January 14, 2018 after a lengthy illness, with her family by her side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":35443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35441"}],"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=35441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35441"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}