{"id":230128,"date":"2026-04-13T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:49:06","slug":"ocoee-police-department-mourns-loss-of-former-police-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230128\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocoee Police Department mourns loss of former police chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h933885-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Ocoee Police Department is mourning the loss of former Police Chaplain Dr. Gloria Stephens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h933885-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">She died Wednesday, April 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h933885-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Stephens faithfully served the department and the Ocoee community for many years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h933885-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;She was a constant presence during some of life&#8217;s most difficult moments, offering comfort, compassion and strength to those in need,&#8221; the Ocoee Police Department shared on social media. &#8220;Dr. Stephens devoted her life to public service, leaving a lasting impact on everyone she encountered. We are grateful for her years of service and the difference she made in our department and community. She will be deeply missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ocoee Police Department is mourning the loss of former Police Chaplain Dr. Gloria Stephens.\u00a0 She died Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-230128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}