{"id":226,"date":"2012-01-24T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:08:29","slug":"arrangements-for-joe-paterno-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Arrangements for Joe Paterno Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Public Viewings Tuesday and Wednesday; \u201cA Memorial For Joe\u201d Set For Thursday in Jordan Center<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>For those unable to attend the Thursday event, the Big Ten Network, <a href=\"http:\/\/btn.com\/\">BTN.com<\/a> and BTN2Go will provide live coverage<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; January 23, 2012 \u2013<\/strong> The family of Joe Paterno has completed the funeral arrangements for the legendary Penn State educator, coach and humanitarian, who passed away Sunday, January 22. Two public viewings will be held, as well as a public memorial, \u201cA Memorial For Joe,\u201d on the University Park campus.<\/div>\n<div>A public viewing is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 24 from 1:00-11:00 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 25 from 8:00 a.m.-Noon at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, located near the intersection of Curtin Road and Allen Street on campus. Please see below for important parking information for the public viewings.<\/div>\n<div>There will be a private funeral service Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. The funeral procession will begin at approximately 3:00 p.m. The procession will leave the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, turn left onto Curtin Road near the Pattee-Paterno Library and travel Curtin Road past Beaver Stadium. The procession will then turn right onto Porter Road and turn right onto College Avenue, heading west through downtown State College. The burial is private.<\/div>\n<div>On Thursday, Jan. 26, a public memorial service, \u201cA Memorial For Joe\u201d will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the Bryce Jordan Center, located at the intersection of Curtin Road and University Drive on campus and a ticket will be required for admission. All tickets are free. Doors will open at 1:00 p.m. Please see below for important ticket ordering and parking information for the public memorial service.<\/div>\n<div>Demand for tickets to \u201cA Memorial For Joe\u201d was extremely high and tickets are no longer available.<\/div>\n<div>In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests that donations be made to the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympicspa.org\/\">http:\/\/www.specialolympicspa.org<\/a> ) or the Penn State-THON (The Penn State IFC\/Panhellenic Dance Marathon); \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thon.org\/\">http:\/\/www.thon.org<\/a> or call 1-800-392-THON.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Viewings Tuesday and Wednesday; \u201cA Memorial For Joe\u201d Set For Thursday in Jordan Center For those unable to attend the Thursday event, the Big Ten Network, <a href=\"http:\/\/btn.com\/\">BTN.com<\/a> and BTN2Go will provide live coverage.\u00a0 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; January 23, 2012 \u2013 The family of Joe Paterno has completed the funeral arrangements for the legendary [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/395516_10151176302530268_146381745267_22204524_639944008_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}