{"id":225160,"date":"2026-03-28T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:42:13","slug":"jerry-thorn-obituary-lubbock-avalanche-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225160\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Thorn Obituary &#8211; Lubbock Avalanche-Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Jerry Wayne Thorn passed away on March 26, 2026. We will celebrate his 89 years of life at a later date at the Frederick Cemetery in Frederick, Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Jerry Wayne Thorn was born on January 6, 1937, to Marshall and Lorene Thorn in Frederick, Oklahoma. He graduated from Frederick High School in1955 and attended the University of Oklahoma. He married Barbara Burns in 1955 and they had 2 daughters. Jerry was a member of the First Baptist Church in Lubbock and a member of the Samaritan Class. He was blessed by many friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">He is preceded in death by his parents, Marshall and Lorene Thorn, and his wife of 65 years, Barbara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Jerry is survived by his daughters, Terri Gillam and Laurie Thorn; grandson Alex and wife Maria; granddaughter Abby and husband Kyle, and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">The family request that contributions be made to your favorite charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">A celebration of life will be held Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 2:00 pm at Ford Chapel at First Baptist Church at 2201 Broadway Ave. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialdesigners.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.memorialdesigners.net<\/a> to sign a virtual guestbook and share memories of Jerry with his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1xsp3sk css-9l3uo3\">Posted online on March 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1ncapy4 css-9l3uo3\">Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerry Wayne Thorn passed away on March 26, 2026. We will celebrate his 89 years of life at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-225160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}