{"id":287517,"date":"2014-01-04T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287517"},"modified":"2014-01-06T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:20:19","slug":"former-sheriff-slick-alfred-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287517","title":{"rendered":"Former Sheriff &#8220;Slick&#8221; Alfred Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=287518\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-287518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/01\/340153-52c83ec7c1ab3-shrink-x180-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"340153-52c83ec7c1ab3-shrink-x180\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-287518\" \/><\/a>ATHENS &#8212; Longtime area lawman and former Henderson County Sheriff Howard Burton \u201cSlick\u201d Alfred, 80, of Athens, has died.  According to the website of Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home in Athens, Alfred died Jan. 2 in Tyler, where he was born in 1933.  Alfred spent 42 years in law-enforcement, serving as Henderson County Sheriff from 1988 through 2000.  A private burial took place Saturday at Bascom Cemetery in Smith County.  A memorial service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS &#8212; Longtime area lawman and former Henderson County Sheriff Howard Burton \u201cSlick\u201d Alfred, 80, of Athens, has died. According to the website of Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home in Athens, Alfred died Jan. 2 in Tyler, where he was born in 1933. Alfred spent 42 years in law-enforcement, serving as Henderson County Sheriff from 1988 through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Sheriff &#8220;Slick&#8221; Alfred 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-287517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 21:22:11","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\/287517","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=287517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287519,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287517\/revisions\/287519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}