{"id":3879,"date":"2009-05-16T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/compton-s-curtiss-seymore-passes-away-services-this-saturday\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T20:01:00","slug":"compton-s-curtiss-seymore-passes-away-services-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/compton-s-curtiss-seymore-passes-away-services-this-saturday","title":{"rendered":"Compton\u2019s Curtiss Seymore Passes Away; Services This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo6320.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>     <!--StartFragment-->         <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More sad news to report today as longtime Compton track and  cross country coach Curtiss Seymore passed away on Sunday due to a heart  attack.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>He was 73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In his forty years with Compton, Seymore coached just about  every sport offered at the school, and found the most success with the Tarbabes&rsquo;  track program, where he won a boys&rsquo; and a girls&rsquo; CIF title.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I had the pleasure of getting to know him  a little at a Moore League Cross Country Meet, where he joked with me that his  XC team was really just a conditioning program for track.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;I guarantee we can beat everyone the  first 100 meters, even if we don&rsquo;t win the race,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There&rsquo;s a few nice remembrances of coach on the track\/XC  website Dyestat, which you can read by clicking here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk.dyestat.com\/showthread.php?p=2977346\">http:\/\/www.talk.dyestat.com\/showthread.php?p=2977346<\/a>).  <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you wish to pay your respects, services will be held at  10 a.m. Saturday at City of Refuge Church on 14527 S. San Pedro Street  in&nbsp;Gardena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Condolences may be sent to his widow Gloria Seymore at 1201  South Clivenden Ave., Compton, CA 90220.<\/p>\n<p>         <!--EndFragment-->                           <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtiss Seymore, who&#8217;d been coaching at Compton since the late 1960s, passed away last Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}