{"id":9753,"date":"2012-06-16T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9753"},"modified":"2012-06-26T22:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T03:15:23","slug":"stephenson-dies-from-stroke-at-age-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/stephenson-dies-from-stroke-at-age-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephenson Dies <BR>From Stroke at Age 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9754\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9754\" title=\"Danny 1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Stephenson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local musician and longtime Spring Festival emcee Danny Stephenson, 57, died this Friday afternoon from a massive stroke. Stephenson, husband of Judy Stephenson, had been a member of the Lehigh Acres Spring Festival for several years. He was known not only for his music, but for his emceeing many of the activities on the large outside stage during the Spring Festival. He performed music all throughout Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson\u00a0also was\u00a0known by thousands of people who have attended the Lehigh Spring Festival during the years. He was the entertainment director and treasurer on the Festival board of directors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9755\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-and-Judy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9755\" title=\"Danny and Judy\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Danny-and-Judy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephenson and <br \/>his wife Judy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After word of his death began to travel, several people went to his Facebook page and wrote condolences and memories of their friend. No word has yet been received about funeral arrangements. But according to family and friends a celebration of life will be planned at a later date\u00a0possibly at\u00a0Veterans Park.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson&#8217;s Facebook page is at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danny.stephenson.71\">www.facebook.com\/danny.stephenson.71<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local musician and longtime Spring Festival emcee Danny Stephenson, 57, died this Friday afternoon from a massive stroke. Stephenson, husband of Judy Stephenson, had been a member of the Lehigh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}