{"id":359287,"date":"2026-07-02T23:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359287\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:55:17","slug":"michael-little-oct-13-1971-june-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359287\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Little &#8211; Oct. 13, 1971 &#8211; June 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael S. Little, 54, was born in Fort Worth to Michael D. Little and Nancy Little on Oct. 13, 1971.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael served as a teacher in Fort Worth Independent School District for over 23 years. Michael was known by a few different names. To his students, he was Mr. Little, and to FWISD he was Michael Little, but to his close friends and family, he was our Shane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He held a bachelor\u2019s in business and a master\u2019s in sustainability. He appreciated the value of working hard for what you have, living within your means and preparing for the future. He valued being healthy, which made him a phenomenal health and P.E. teacher, because he led by example. He was an avid reader, loved learning and educated himself on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had a wonderful sense of humor and could make anyone around him laugh. He always treated others with kindness, consideration and valued living by the Golden Rule: \u201cTreat others how you would like to be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In lieu of plants\/flowers, the family would like anyone who wants to make a contribution, to make it to their favorite charity in his name and memory.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael S. Little, 54, was born in Fort Worth to Michael D. Little and Nancy Little on Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2070,3191],"class_list":["post-359287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-obituary","tag-syndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359287","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=359287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}