{"id":64316,"date":"2026-05-12T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64316\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:48:09","slug":"norman-kellum-jr-kellum-law-firm-founder-and-nc-trial-attorney-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64316\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Kellum Jr., Kellum Law Firm founder and NC trial attorney, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A prominent Eastern Carolina personal injury law firm has announced the death of its founder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kellum Law Firm announced that founder Norman Kellum Jr. passed away at 88 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the firm, Kellum spent more than six decades as a respected trial attorney and became well known across Eastern Carolina, helping grow Kellum Law into one of the state\u2019s most recognized personal injury firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The firm said Kellum was known not only for his legal career, but also for being a veteran, a lifelong member of First Baptist Church of New Bern, and for the kindness and personal attention he showed clients and the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kellum Law is asking the community to keep the Kellum family in their thoughts during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A prominent Eastern Carolina personal injury law firm has announced the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,23659,35088,35089,67,117,35091,35090,118,105],"class_list":["post-64316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-firm","tag-kellum","tag-kellum-law-firm","tag-law","tag-nc","tag-norman-kellum","tag-norman-kellum-jr","tag-north-carolina","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116563575021868548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}