{"id":478315,"date":"2016-04-18T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=478315"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:46:04","slug":"services-set-for-tyler-artist-dick-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=478315","title":{"rendered":"Services Set For Tyler Artist Dick Johns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Dick-Johns.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Dick-Johns-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Dick Johns\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-478316\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Graveside services will be held Tuesday for Tyler artist and author Dick Johns. Johns, who was 86, died Friday. Johns was a commercial illustrator, known particularly for his portraits done in a pointillist style called <a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/featured\/president-reagan-richard-johns.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153stipple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> in which areas of dark and light are created by changing the spacing between small points of ink. For many years, Johns&#8217;s art was used by KTBB in its sales and promotional materials.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Johns is a Tyler native who served in the Korean War. While employed at General Dynamics in Ft. Worth, Johns produced the engineering illustrations used in the assembly and documentation of the B-36 and B-58 bombers. He is the author of three novels and was a contributing editorial cartoonist for the Dallas Morning News. <\/p>\n<p>Graveside service will be 2:00 Tuesday afternoon at Rose Lawn Cemetery, 2003 Blue Mountain Boulevard in Tyler. It will be under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Graveside services will be held Tuesday for Tyler artist and author Dick Johns. Johns, who was 86, died Friday. Johns was a commercial illustrator, known particularly for his portraits done in a pointillist style called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stipple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which areas of dark and light are created by changing the spacing between small points of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=478315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Services Set For Tyler Artist Dick Johns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":478316,"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-478315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 22:08:47","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\/478315","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=478315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478370,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478315\/revisions\/478370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/478316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}