{"id":351899,"date":"2015-05-09T05:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T10:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351899"},"modified":"2015-05-10T05:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:22:28","slug":"troup-mayor-passes-away-following-heart-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351899","title":{"rendered":"Troup Mayor Passes Away Following Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/Bill-Lacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/Bill-Lacy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Lacy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-351203\" \/><\/a>TROUP \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The beloved mayor of an East Texas town has died. City of Troup Mayor Bill Lacy suffered a massive heart attack Wednesday at his home. According to KETK, he was with family members when the medical issue occurred. According to A family friend, around 1:00 on Thursday, doctors informed the family Mayor Lacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CT scan revealed brain swelling. Doctors then prepared the family to take the 46-year-old off life support. Funeral services for Lacy will be Tuesday morning at 10:00 at the First Baptist Church in Troup. Visitation will also be at the church on Monday, from 4:00 till 8:00pm. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Lacy became the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first new mayor since 2002, after he defeated long-time city leader John Whitsell for his seat. Lacy received 110 votes to Whitsell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 89. In 2005, Larry Haire, President and CEO of Kilgore National Banked hired Lacy to manage the Troup branch location of the bank and serve as Assistant Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Lacy was on KETK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wednesday afternoon show to promote the inaugural City of Troup National Day of Prayer Breakfast. He said he hoped the new prayer breakfast tradition would carry on long after he was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROUP \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The beloved mayor of an East Texas town has died. City of Troup Mayor Bill Lacy suffered a massive heart attack Wednesday at his home. According to KETK, he was with family members when the medical issue occurred. According to A family friend, around 1:00 on Thursday, doctors informed the family Mayor Lacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troup Mayor Passes Away Following Heart Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":351203,"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-351899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 06:22:43","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\/351899","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=351899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352021,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351899\/revisions\/352021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}