{"id":2484,"date":"2025-08-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2026-07-27T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:09:05","slug":"news-of-the-passing-of-mrs-denise-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/news-of-the-passing-of-mrs-denise-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the passing of Mrs. Denise Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the University community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is with deepest sympathy that I share the news of the passing of Mrs. Denise Smith, wife of the Chairman of our Board of Trustees, Mr. Steve Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a link to the published obituary.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamsonmemorial.com\/obituaries\/denise-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.williamsonmemorial.com\/obituaries\/denise-smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On behalf of all Blue Raiders, my wife, Elizabeth, and I wish to express our deepest condolences to the Smith family. Please keep them in your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sincerely,<br>Sidney A. McPhee<br>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the University community, It is with deepest sympathy that I share the news of the passing of Mrs. Denise Smith, wife of the Chairman of our Board of Trustees, Mr. Steve Smith. Here is a link to the published obituary.: https:\/\/www.williamsonmemorial.com\/obituaries\/denise-smith On behalf of all Blue Raiders, my wife, Elizabeth, and I wish to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}