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rated, Beta Sigma Zeta Chapter, FAMU Alumni Association; and Charter and Life Member of Charmettes’ of Hillsborough County. Her deep sense of and commitment to community net- ted her numerous accolades and awards for years of service from various organizations in the Tampa Bay Area.
Ella is preceded in death by: her loving parents, Benjamin and Carrie Gethers; siblings, Emanuel Gethers, Eunice Vanes, Mildred McBride and Rutha Lemons; and son, Ronald Cusseaux.
Cherishing her memory are: her nephew and nieces, James and Catherine Lemons and F. Michelle Lemons, M. D.; grand- nephews and nieces, Anthony Johnson, Sharon Johnson, Erica Johnson, Zandell and Carla Johnson, Angela Walker, Charles and Deidra Johnson, Jamel Johnson, Emanuel John- son, James Lemons, II, Maurice Lemons, Khari and Arcenio Cayetano, and Launi Lemons; and a host of great-grand/great- great grand nephews and nieces of the Walker, Cayetano, Cusseaux, Mount, Palmer, and Powell families; cousins; and friends.
The remains will repose after 5 p. m. Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at Ray Williams Funeral Home, 301 N. Howard Avenue.
Arrangements entrusted to RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME. Rhodes & Northern, Owners.
INTEGRITY
RAY WILLIAMS
HAPPY 93RD BIRTHDAY
ERNEST SMITH (AKA, Pa Pa)
SUNRISE: 9/30/1926 SUNSET: 03/21/2019
Dad,
Your life was a blessing; your memory a treasure; you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.
Happy 93rd Birthday!
Love, your family and friends.
MRS. ESTELLA LOUISE BAKER
A Celebration of Life for Mrs. Estella Louise Baker will be held Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 11 a. m. at Integrity Fu- neral Chapel, 3822 E. 7th Av- enue, Tampa, Florida 33605, with Pastor T. J. Stafford, offi- ciating.
Estella Louise Baker was born to the late Richard Brown and Anna Rae Sanders Brown on January 30, 1944 in Dallas, Texas. She enjoyed her career in customer service, sharing her beautiful smile with retail store clients. She was a de- voted wife of Jerome Baker, who was by her side as she en- tered into her eternal rest, Sat- urday, September 21, 2019.
A SERVICE OF INTEGRITY
MRS. ELLA NORA GETHERS CUSSEAUX
Mrs. Ella Nora Gethers Cusseaux of Tampa, passed away Thursday, September 26, 2019. Funeral services will be con- ducted Wednesday, October 2, at 10a.m.,atMt.TaborM.B. Church, 2606 W. Grace St., with Pastor T. D. Leonard, officiating. Entombment will follow in Gar- den of Memories Cemetery.
Mrs. Ella, “EN” Cusseaux was a native of Jacksonville, FL and a resident of Tampa for 81 years. She was a graduate of Don Thompson High School, Class of 1949. Ella furthered her educa- tion at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, FL, graduating from Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, FL and earning her Master’s Degree in education at the University of Tampa.
The first years of Ella’s pro- fessional life were spent as a classroom teacher in Manatee and Hillsborough Counties. She later became a School Social Worker for Hillsborough County Schools, retiring after 25 years of service, to later become Coordi- nator for Adult literacy at Hills- borough Community College.
As a faithful member of Mt. Tabor M. B. Church for more than 50 years, Ella was the for- mer chair of the Welcome Min- istry and Third Generation. She was a dedicated Life Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorpo-
Crime
Man To Pay $1.2 Million To Victims In Fraud Scheme
A 49-year-old Clearwater man was sentenced to prison last Friday. He pleaded guilty to com- mitting wire fraud on April 30, 2019.
U. S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Richard Buffington to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison. The Court also ordered Buffington to forfeit more than $1.2 million, which is traceable to the pro- ceeds of the offense, and to pay more than $1.2 million in resti- tution to the victims of his fraud scheme.
According to court docu- ments, beginning in January 2013 through August 29, 2018, Buffington defrauded approxi- mately 28 investors, from Florida and across the United States, out of more than $1.2 million by sell- ing unregistered, non-exempt se- curities in the form of preferred shares. He made false and fraud- ulent representations to victim-
investors about the need for fund- ing for Green Street Equi- ties (“GSE”).
Buffing- ton, GSE’s listed Chair- man and RICHARD President, BUFFINGTON pitched GSE as a company focused on investing in “green companies” (i.e., environmen- tally friendly projects). Buffing- ton’s misrepresentations to investors included that, GSE would go public soon after the in- vestors’ stock purchase, and that GSE would use investor money to acquire ownership interests in various companies in the “green
energy” sector.
Based on Buffington’s mis-
representations, victim-investors sent funds believing that Buff- ington would use such money to fund GSE and its investments or acquisitions.
Investors accepted his mis- representations about GSE be- cause prior to 2013, he had successfully raised funds for a company that had gone public and from which investors had profited.
In the end, although Buffin- gton marketed GSE as a com- pany making meaningful investments or acquisitions in “green companies,” neither GSE nor Buffington ever made any such investments or acquisitions.
Instead, Buffington used any monies that he raised, in- cluding money wired by an un- dercover agent, for his personal benefit, which included drinking, gambling, and drug use.
DEATH LISTING
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Edna Kyles-White, Miami, Florida
Mr. Willie B. Doyle, Tampa
Mr. Jeffrey Nelson, Tampa
Mrs. Rosie Mosley, Tampa
Mr. Ronald Atkinson, Tampa
Mr. Gary Moore, Tampa
Mrs. Eula Burgess, Tampa
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Mr. James Patrick New- ton, Tampa
Ms. Lakesha Chantell Veal, Tampa
Mr. Michael L. Wyly, Tampa
INTEGRITY FUNERAL SERVICES
Ms. Antonisha Williams, Tampa
Mrs. Estella Baker, Bran- don, FL
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Ella Nora Gethers Cusseaux, Tampa
Mr. Johnnie Lee Harri- son, Tampa
Mrs. Dorothy Miller Newton, Tampa
Ms. Heather Ann Sims, Temple Terrace, FL
Mrs. Debbie “Deborah” Mae Watson, Tampa
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Chase Jaden Sampson (Infant), Brandon, Florida
Mr. Eddie Ellison, Thonotosassa, Florida
Mr. Robert Snowden, Tampa
Ms. Antronia Delina Gilbert, Tampa
Mr. Willie Newton, Jr., Tampa
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