{"id":82591,"date":"2011-03-31T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82591"},"modified":"2011-04-02T05:17:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T10:17:01","slug":"services-set-for-deputy-killed-by-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82591","title":{"rendered":"Service Set for Deputy Killed by Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/28\/deputy-dies-after-cow-attack\/robert-britton\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-81687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/Robert-Britton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Robert Britton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-81687\" \/><\/a>TYLER (Staff\/AP) \u2013 A funeral service is set for the Smith County deputy hit and killed by a cow last week. Officials say the funeral for Robert Britton will be held tomorrow at Rose Heights Church on Old Omen Road in Tyler. The service will begin at 2:00pm. Britton died Monday of head injuries suffered when he was attacked by an injured cow while he directed traffic around the half-ton animal early on March 24 near Bullard. <\/p>\n<p>Sheriff J.B. Smith said the 54-year-old deputy had responded to a report of a stray cow struck by a vehicle and was directing traffic on Farm Road 344 when the cow charged him. Smith said Britton was knocked into the air and landed head-first on the pavement before the animal continued the attack until other deputies rescued Britton. Smith says the cow was euthanized. Britton had served as a deputy for the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Department since 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (Staff\/AP) \u2013 A funeral service is set for the Smith County deputy hit and killed by a cow last week. Officials say the funeral for Robert Britton will be held tomorrow at Rose Heights Church on Old Omen Road in Tyler. The service will begin at 2:00pm. Britton died Monday of head injuries suffered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=82591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Service Set for Deputy Killed by Cow<\/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-82591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:04:35","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\/82591","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=82591"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82955,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82591\/revisions\/82955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}