{"id":201437,"date":"2012-07-17T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201437"},"modified":"2012-07-18T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T07:20:19","slug":"former-longview-councilwoman-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201437","title":{"rendered":"Former Longview Councilwoman Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=201438\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-201438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/07\/Sidney-Bell-Willis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sidney Bell Willis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-201438\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 Funeral services are pending for a former Longview city councilwoman who died over the weekend. Sidney Bell Willis died Sunday at the age of 76. She served as District 3 city councilwoman from 2002 until 2011. After retiring after 43 years as a Longview school teacher, she ran for public office. Willis was a member of the NAACP, and a recipient of the city\u2019s Race Relations Committee Unity Award. She was a member of Top Ladies of Distinction and the first Top Teens Advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 Funeral services are pending for a former Longview city councilwoman who died over the weekend. Sidney Bell Willis died Sunday at the age of 76. She served as District 3 city councilwoman from 2002 until 2011. After retiring after 43 years as a Longview school teacher, she ran for public office. Willis was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=201437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Longview Councilwoman Dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 17:29:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201437","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201622,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201437\/revisions\/201622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}