{"id":1399812,"date":"2025-03-25T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1399812"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:37:21","slug":"elderly-smith-county-man-dies-after-falling-from-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1399812","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Smith County man dies after falling from ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1399813\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-112308-e1742919851677-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-112308-e1742919851677-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-112308-e1742919851677.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Our news partner, KETK, reports that an elderly man has died after falling from a ladder while trimming trees Monday afternoon.\u00a0According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, around 4:30 p.m., deputies responded to a home in the Chapel Hill area off of Highway 64, where they found 76-year-old Bobby Finley dead in his yard.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Finley was standing on a ladder while trimming a tree in his yard with a chainsaw when a limb he cut fell into the ladder, knocking him to the ground.\u00a0The sheriff\u2019s office believes Finley hit his head and back area when he fell to the ground, ultimately causing his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Our news partner, KETK, reports that an elderly man has died after falling from a ladder while trimming trees Monday afternoon.\u00a0According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, around 4:30 p.m., deputies responded to a home in the Chapel Hill area off of Highway 64, where they found 76-year-old Bobby Finley dead in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1399812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elderly Smith County man dies after falling from ladder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1399824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-112308-e1742919851677-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 02:34:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-112308-e1742919851677-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400072,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399812\/revisions\/1400072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}