{"id":1462461,"date":"2025-12-03T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1462461"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:12:00","slug":"kilgore-college-grieves-loss-of-executive-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1462461","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore College grieves loss of executive vp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/jenkens1-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1462462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/jenkens1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/jenkens1-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/jenkens1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>KILGORE \u2014 Kilgore College announced the death of its Executive Vice President of Internal Collaboration &#038; Strategic Initiatives, Dr. Mike Jenkins, on Sunday following a battle with lymphoma.According to our news partner KETK, Jenkins had spent 35 years of service to Kilgore College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike truly had a servant\u2019s heart and will be greatly missed,\u201d Interim President Dr. Staci Martin said. \u201cPlease keep Mike\u2019s family and those of us who worked closely with him in your thoughts and prayers during these difficult days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the college, a Wake of Remembrance will be held in his honor on Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church in Longview, featuring refreshments, music, laughter and shared stories.  A Celebration of Life Service is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m., also at Trinity Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u2014 Kilgore College announced the death of its Executive Vice President of Internal Collaboration &#038; Strategic Initiatives, Dr. Mike Jenkins, on Sunday following a battle with lymphoma.According to our news partner KETK, Jenkins had spent 35 years of service to Kilgore College. \u201cMike truly had a servant\u2019s heart and will be greatly missed,\u201d Interim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1462461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore College grieves loss of executive vp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1462462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/jenkens1-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 06:27:58","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\/12\/jenkens1-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462461","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462461"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462809,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462461\/revisions\/1462809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}