{"id":2487,"date":"2024-06-14T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2024-06-26T06:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:52:50","slug":"mark-kuester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kuester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thomas Kuester, 71, of Springville passed away on June 8, 2024. Mark had resided in the Birmingham area since 1955. Mark was a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He had a successful 40-year career with Southern Company.<\/p>\n<p>Mark was preceded in death by his parents, Mildred Kuester and Manuel Kuester. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Debbie; brother Rick Kuester of Birmingham, sisters Mary (Preston) Willis Of Dothan And Jane (Mark) Golden of Birmingham; numerous nieces and nephews, and great nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>The family would like to thank all of the doctors, nurses, caregivers and hospice personnel who helped Mark through the last few years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\">\n<p>Private services will be held by the family. Mark requested that any memorials be directed to St Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital or to the charity of your choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deerfootmemorialfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/Mark-Kuester\/#!\/TributeWall\">Click here to to link to the funeral home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thomas Kuester, 71, of Springville passed away on June 8, 2024. Mark had resided in the Birmingham area since 1955. Mark was a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He had a successful 40-year career &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/?p=2487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scsretirees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}