{"id":230748,"date":"2026-04-14T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:29:07","slug":"john-watson-obituary-gainesville-florida-1954-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230748\/","title":{"rendered":"John Watson Obituary &#8211; Gainesville, FLORIDA (1954-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tJohn Burton Watson Jr \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John Burton Watson Jr., 72, of Orlando, Florida, passed away on April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\nJohn was born to Margaret and John B. Watson. He was a car salesman.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe founded 4Given Prison Ministries, where he baptized over 3,500 men and women. He believed any life could be transformed through Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is survived by his mother, Margaret Watson; brother, Richard Watson (Karin); aunt, Donna Coleman; children, Jordan Milner (Joey), Shelby Vallejo (Matt), Sarah Watson (Chu), and John B. Watson III (Melanie);and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>\nA memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at First Orlando (3000 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Florida 32805). In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to First Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Burton Watson Jr OBITUARY John Burton Watson Jr., 72, of Orlando, Florida, passed away on April 6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-230748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230748","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=230748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}