{"id":2136,"date":"2014-03-19T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2014\/03\/19\/we-are-saddened-to-inform-you-of-the-death-of-guy-pierce\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:39:11","slug":"we-are-saddened-to-inform-you-of-the-death-of-guy-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/we-are-saddened-to-inform-you-of-the-death-of-guy-pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"We are saddened to inform you of the death of Guy Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">We are saddened to inform you of the death of Guy Pierce, a member of the Governing Body.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">It happened yesterday, March 18. Some of you already know, but it was just announced this morning in Bethel. He was 79; born November 6, 1934. Bro. Pierce was baptized at the age of 20 in August of 1955. He married in May of 1977 and had 6 children (two natural, two stepchildren, and two adopted). He began pioneering in 1982, became a circuit overseer in 1986 and served in that capacity (11 years) until called to Bethel service on September 1, 1997. Two years later (9\/1\/99), he was appointed a member of the Governing Body. His memorial service will be held this Saturday, March 22, at 3:30 pm. Bro. Mark Sanderson of the GB will give the discourse.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Bro. Pierce was a very congenial person, down-to-earth, and happy to talk to everyone. I especially remember his quick wit. He saw something humorous in nearly every situation. He will be dearly missed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">by correspondent\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to inform you of the death of Guy Pierce, a member of the Governing Body. It happened yesterday, March 18. Some of you already know, but it was just announced this morning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}