{"id":274247,"date":"2013-08-21T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274247"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:47:25","slug":"former-area-lawmaker-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274247","title":{"rendered":"Former Area Lawmaker Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=274248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-274248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/mankins-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mankins\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-274248\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Former State Representative James Earl \u201cJimmy\u201d Mankins Sr. died Tuesday in Longview. He was 87. Mankins, a longtime trucking company operator, represented Gregg County in the state Legislature from 1974 through 1984. \u201cHe was probably one of the most respected legislators we\u2019ve had,\u201d said Mickey Smith, a former Kilgore mayor and Gregg County judge. \u201cJimmy Earl was pretty quiet, moved real quietly. He was real congenial and could get things done.\u201d Mankin is survived by his wife of 65 years, Virginia, and their children. Funeral services are set for 10:00 tomorrow morning at First Presbyterian Church in Kilgore, with the Rev. Scott Nowack officiating. Burial will follow in Kilgore Cemetery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Former State Representative James Earl \u201cJimmy\u201d Mankins Sr. died Tuesday in Longview. He was 87. Mankins, a longtime trucking company operator, represented Gregg County in the state Legislature from 1974 through 1984. \u201cHe was probably one of the most respected legislators we\u2019ve had,\u201d said Mickey Smith, a former Kilgore mayor and Gregg County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Area Lawmaker Dies at 87<\/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-274247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 07:54:31","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\/274247","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=274247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274333,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274247\/revisions\/274333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}