{"id":379236,"date":"2026-08-23T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379236\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:46:09","slug":"public-viewing-for-jacksonville-lt-officer-xy-brown-traffic-delays-expected-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379236\/","title":{"rendered":"Public viewing for Jacksonville Lt. Officer XY Brown; traffic delays expected, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office is reminding drivers to expect traffic during a public viewing for longtime Jacksonville Lieutenant Officer XY Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville police say those who wish to honor Lt. XY Brown on Sunday evening are welcome to attend Brown\u2019s public viewing and celebration of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sunday\u2019s viewing will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at Sandy Run Missionary Baptist Church on Hargett Street in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A celebration of life will follow at 11 a.m. on Monday at River of Life Church on Gum Branch Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown will then be laid to rest at Coastal Carolina Veterans\u2019 Cemetery on Montford Landing Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drivers should expect some traffic delays during the services. Onslow County deputies say any information regarding impacts to local traffic will be released if needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown retired from the Jacksonville Police Department in December 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/08\/10\/community-remembers-longest-serving-police-officer-jacksonville-following-his-death\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/08\/10\/community-remembers-longest-serving-police-officer-jacksonville-following-his-death\/\">at 98 years old<\/a>, after 68 years of serving the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was the department\u2019s oldest officer and was believed to be the oldest serving police officer in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24461,116,118,117,152347,12343,11513,152348,98036,4480],"class_list":["post-379236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-funeral","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-officer-xy-brown","tag-onslow-county","tag-onslow-county-sheriffs-office","tag-sandy-run-missionary-baptist-church","tag-viewing","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379236","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=379236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}