{"id":1510409,"date":"2026-05-27T05:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510409"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:55:41","slug":"firefighter-to-be-honored-with-funeral-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510409","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter to be honored with funeral procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510410\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/scottst.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"177\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Friends and colleagues of fallen Tyler Fire Department Driver\/Engineer Scott Starkey will pass through Tyler on Wednesday as part of a funeral procession in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>According to our news partner KETK, Starkey died from cancer on May 16 after serving as a firefighter for the Tyler Fire Department for over 25 years. His funeral service will be held at Flint Baptist Church at around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday and will be followed by the procession.<\/p>\n<p>The procession will make its way north from Flint Baptist Church, pass through the city of Tyler on Loop 323 and end at the Bascom Cemetery. The City of Tyler said drivers could see some traffic delays as the procession passes through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Friends and colleagues of fallen Tyler Fire Department Driver\/Engineer Scott Starkey will pass through Tyler on Wednesday as part of a funeral procession in his honor. According to our news partner KETK, Starkey died from cancer on May 16 after serving as a firefighter for the Tyler Fire Department for over 25 years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefighter to be honored with funeral procession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1510481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/scottst.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 23:32:51","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\/2026\/05\/scottst.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510409","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510425,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510409\/revisions\/1510425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}