{"id":407815,"date":"2015-10-20T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407815"},"modified":"2015-10-21T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:50:26","slug":"alto-football-player-suffered-reported-seizure-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407815","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Scheduled for Alto Football Player; Donations Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/CAMRON-MATTHEWS-PIC_1445183073254_5220323_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/CAMRON-MATTHEWS-PIC_1445183073254_5220323_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CAM&#039;RON MATTHEWS PIC_1445183073254_5220323_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-408091\" \/><\/a>ALTO (Staff\/AP) &#8211; Alto school officials say funeral services for Cam&#8217;ron Matthews, an Alto football player who died over the weekend, will be held Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in the Rusk High School Gym (Eagle Coliseum).  KETK reports a GoFundMe page has been set up to help Matthews&#8217; family with expenses. Donations are also being accepted at Bancorp South Bank under the &#8220;Cam&#8217;Ron Matthews Memorial Fund.&#8221; You can also deliver them to Alto ISD.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An aneurysm is blamed for the death of Matthews, who collapsed on the sidelines during a Friday night home game against Price-Carlisle and died the following day. The rest of the game was called off.   Alto School Superintendent Kerry Birdwell tells KTRE-TV in Lufkin that the school&#8217;s athletic director was with Matthews&#8217; family when a doctor informed them of Matthews&#8217; diagnosis. Birdwell says the doctor told the family the aneurysm may not be football-related.  An aneurysm is a blood-filled bulge or balloon in a blood vessel wall that can rupture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTO (Staff\/AP) &#8211; Alto school officials say funeral services for Cam&#8217;ron Matthews, an Alto football player who died over the weekend, will be held Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in the Rusk High School Gym (Eagle Coliseum). KETK reports a GoFundMe page has been set up to help Matthews&#8217; family with expenses. Donations are also being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=407815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funeral Scheduled for Alto Football Player; Donations Accepted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":408091,"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-407815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:29:02","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\/407815","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=407815"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408997,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407815\/revisions\/408997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/408091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}