{"id":856663,"date":"2020-02-29T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856663"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T21:59:20","slug":"services-held-for-tisds-freeman-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856663","title":{"rendered":"Services Held for TISD&#8217;s Freeman Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/02\/freeman-sterling-tisd-board-member-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-854623\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A celebration of the life of Freeman Dewayne Sterling was held on Saturday morning in Tyler. The Tyler ISD Board of Trustees Place 3 member and beloved former principal of Peete Elementary School. Dr. Marty Crawford, recently told KTBB, &#8220;Mr. Sterling was such a gentleman. I mean that in every aspect of the word.&#8221; The Tyler ISD Superintendent continued, &#8220;He was a calm, quiet man, but a very stoic, intelligent, man that really thought things through. Mr. Sterling was man who was impactful with a very steady hand.&#8221; Sterling retired as principal from Pete in 2012.  He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2019. Freeman Sterling was 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A celebration of the life of Freeman Dewayne Sterling was held on Saturday morning in Tyler. The Tyler ISD Board of Trustees Place 3 member and beloved former principal of Peete Elementary School. Dr. Marty Crawford, recently told KTBB, &#8220;Mr. Sterling was such a gentleman. I mean that in every aspect of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Services Held for TISD&#8217;s Freeman Sterling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":854623,"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-856663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 06:54:53","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\/856663","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856665,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856663\/revisions\/856665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/854623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}