{"id":4921,"date":"2025-09-05T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:09:02","slug":"teen-prom-king-17-passes-away-only-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4921","title":{"rendered":"Teen Prom King, 17, passes away only an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tragedy at Rathbun Lake<\/strong><br>On June 26, 2024, 17-year-old Ayden Beeson, a Centerville High School student and recent Prom King, drowned while swimming at Rathbun Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was reported missing, and within an hour rescuers found him in 15\u201320 feet of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swift Response<\/strong><br>The Appanoose County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Water Rescue unit quickly launched a search after a 911 call reported a possible drowning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their efforts, Ayden was pronounced d**d at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Loss to the Community<\/strong><br>Ayden was a football leader, tennis player, and admired student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His warmth and kindness left a lasting mark on classmates and teachers alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Remembered with Love<\/strong><br>\u201cSuch a great kid lost in the prime of his life is devastating for our community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for his family, and for the lives he was going to impact,\u201d said Superintendent Mark Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was kind to everyone. There wasn\u2019t a single person he couldn\u2019t be nice to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy at Rathbun LakeOn June 26, 2024, 17-year-old Ayden Beeson, a Centerville High School student and recent Prom King, drowned while swimming at Rathbun Lake. He was reported missing, and within an hour rescuers found him in 15\u201320 feet of water. Swift ResponseThe Appanoose County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Water Rescue unit quickly launched a search&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}