{"id":10100,"date":"2022-01-29T02:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/james-mccoy-obituaries-athensmessenger-com\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:43:52","slug":"james-mccoy-obituaries-athensmessenger-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/james-mccoy-obituaries-athensmessenger-com\/","title":{"rendered":"James McCoy |  obituaries |  athensmessenger.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Millfield &#8211; James A. McCoy Sr., 75 of Millfield, passed away on Sunday 23 January 2022 at the Laurels of Athens.  He was born in Columbus on December 10, 1946 to the late Clifford Arnold and Bonnie M. Adams McCoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>He was an Army veteran and a member of the American Legion.  James enjoyed drag racing, riding street and off-road motorcycles and ATVs.  James passed his love and passion for the outdoors and hunting on to his sons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Janet F. Baum McCoy of Millfield;  two sons, James A. (Stephanie) McCoy Jr. of Indian Lake and Tony W. (Meredith) McCoy of Canal Winchester;  grandchildren, Dylan and Devin Rice, Karisa Davidson and Megan and Ryan McCoy;  brother, Stephen (Debbie) McCoy of Millfield;  nieces, Stephanie Wagner and Stacy McCoy;  nephew Bill Fullen;  and several other nieces, nephews and cousins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Jeff and Ronnie McCoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>James&#8217; wishes should be cremated.  A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2022 from 2pm to 6pm at the Muddy Creek Tavern, 17 W. Main Street, Jacksonville, Ohio 45740.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Arrangements were entrusted to Morrison Funeral Chapel, Glouster-Bishopville.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tnt-tribute panel panel-default\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n                    <strong>plant a tree <span class=\"tnt-tribute-name\">in memory of James McCoy<\/span> As a living tribute, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tree.tributecenterstore.com\/?oId=23855786&amp;source=tn16\" class=\"tnt-tribute-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tribute shop<\/a>.<\/strong>\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millfield &#8211; James A. McCoy Sr., 75 of Millfield, passed away on Sunday 23 January 2022 at the Laurels of Athens. He was born in Columbus on December 10, 1946 to the late Clifford Arnold and Bonnie M. Adams McCoy. He was an Army veteran and a member of the American Legion. James enjoyed drag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advwisdom.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}