{"id":342076,"date":"2026-07-16T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:42:21","slug":"ollie-mae-balcom-obituary-tallahassee-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342076\/","title":{"rendered":"Ollie Mae Balcom Obituary &#8211; Tallahassee Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Ollie Mae Balcom, 91, of Tallahassee, Florida, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2026.  Funeral services will be 11 AM, Sat., July 18, 2026, at Holy Temple Miraculous Works (216 Ross Rd), with burial at Southside Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Left to cherish her life and legacy are her daughter, Calthy B. Thomas (Pastor Robert, Jr.); six grandchildren: MaSheena Perkins, Quinton Bellamy, Gemeyel Bellamy, Robert Thomas III, Shantrell Thomas and Chadea V. Lamar; five great-grandchildren, Jamari Peters, Zachary Perkins, Nyla Bellamy, Julie Holmes and Jolie Holmes; and a host of relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"funeral-home-logo\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/gcdn\/community-hub\/images\/prod\/logos\/PTAL\/strong-Jones.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"funeral-home-logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1xsp3sk css-9l3uo3\">Posted online on July 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1ncapy4 css-9l3uo3\">Published in  Tallahasse Democrat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Mae Balcom, 91, of Tallahassee, Florida, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2026. Funeral services will be 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-342076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342076","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=342076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}