{"id":27424,"date":"2017-02-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/death-notice-thomas-a-reed\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:01:00","slug":"death-notice-thomas-a-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/obituaries\/death-notice-thomas-a-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Notice: Thomas A. Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas A. Reed<\/p>\n<p>Juneau resident, Thomas A. Reed, died in his home on Jan. 26, 2017. A gathering for friends will be Feb. 11 at Northern Light United Church from 10 a.m.-noon.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was born October 23, 1941, in Hillsboro, Illinois. He moved his family to Juneau in October 1970 to begin working with the state of Alaska as a computer programmer. He was employed by the U.S. Postal Service from 1973-1981. Upon returning to state service, he was the mailroom supervisor and worked with the Alaska Marine Highway System. After retiring he worked at Alaska Airlines and other local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Tom served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959-1963 and the Alaska National Guard during the 1970s. He was honorably discharged from both.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed the St. Louis Cardinals, fishing, bowling, bingo, playing cards and had a love for dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Tom is survived by daughters Beth Andes-Young (Tim Young), Wisconsin; Lori Buzzell (Teil), Juneau; grandchildren Danti and Tyne Andes, Wisconsin; Teilhard Buzzell, Juneau; and brother Jerry Reed, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by a stillborn son, Thomas Andrew Reed, Jr. and parents James and Martha Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Tom&rsquo;s remains will be inurned at Sunnyside Cemetery in Sorento, Illinois next to his parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas A. Reed Juneau resident, Thomas A. Reed, died in his home on Jan. 26, 2017. A gathering for friends will be Feb. 11 at Northern Light United Church from 10 a.m.-noon. Tom was born October 23, 1941, in Hillsboro, Illinois. He moved his family to Juneau in October 1970 to begin working with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}