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TILLMAN Tallahassee, FL
DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT
SGT. MELVIN HINSON, SR.
Sergeant Melvin Hinson, Sr., 68, of Tampa, FL, de- parted this life at the Vet- eran’s Administration Hospital on Tuesday, De- cember 8, 2015.
Funeral services will be 10 a. m., Friday, December 18, 2015, at Mt. Hosea Mis- sionary Baptist Church, Quincy, FL, with Military Honors and burial in Talla- hassee National Cemetery.
Viewing and visitation will be from 3-7 p. m., Thursday, December 17 at Tillman of Tallahassee
REVEREND RALPH EUGENE BUTLER
Reverend Ralph Eugene Butler, 85, peacefully passed away at his home in Culver City, California, on Tuesday, December 1, 2015.
Reverend Butler was Pastor Emeritus of the Good News Missionary Baptist Church and founder of Guardians of Love, Foster Family and Adoption Agency.
Homegoing services were held at Paradise Bap- tist Church, 5100 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, on Saturday, December 12, 2015, at 11 a. m.
In lieu of flowers, memo- rial donations may be made to: Guardians of Love, Fos- ter Family and Adoption Agency, 3756 Santa Rosalia Drive, Suite 305, Los Ange- les, CA, 90008.
Ms. Bobbie Marbury, the mother of Dr. Reba Haley, passed Wednesday morning. She was 79 years old.
Dr. Haley is a frequent spiritual column contributor to the Sentinel.
According to Dr. Haley, Ms. Marbury came to the Bay area in 2010 from De- troit, MI, to live with her only child. Last year, she had been diagnosed with cancer, gone through treatments and cleared of cancer. A few weeks ago, Dr. Haley learned that her mother’s cancer had returned and gone to several parts of the body. Next month she would have turned 80 years old.
“I had prayed and asked God not to let my mother suffer,” Dr. Haley ex- plained. “God answered that
MS. BOBBIE MARBURY
prayer,” she said.
Aden Funeral Home will
be handling services for Ms. Marbury. Services are planned for Friday, Decem- ber 18th, 11 a. m. at Holy Temple #3, 1215 E. 109th Ave. (33612).
For additional informa- tion, contact Dr. Haley at (813) 716-3996.
(850-942-1950).
A Quincy native, Melvin
was a United States Army veteran of the Vietnam Era and a modular home in- spector for the Florida De- partment of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
He had been (was) a longtime resident of Hills- borough County.
Cherishing fond and lov- ing memories are: his de- voted son, Melvin Hinson, Jr.; granddaughter, Ciara Nichole Vera; three great grandsons, DeMerri Hin- son, Cameron and Gavin Kennedy; loving mother, Mrs. Anna L. Hinson; six brothers, Jimmy, Jr., Pete, Samson, Johnny (Bar- bara), Tommy and Lee (An- gela) Hinson; three sisters, Mary Ash, Luretha (Charles) Galloway and Dorothy (Willie) Hunter; aunts, Johnnie Harris and Marjorie Williams; uncle, Jerry Harris; his former wife, mother of his son and good friend, Erline Chavers; and numerous nieces, nephews, other rel- atives and friends who loved him dearly.
TILLMAN FUNERAL HOME OF TALLAHASSEE
Mother Of
Dr. Reba Haley Passes
Judge Throws Out 4th Murder Trial For Dontae Morris
IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
WILLIE HOGUE, VALERIE BOYD And DANIEL BOYD
My dear son, Daniel... I miss your smiling face, the joy you bring and your warm embrace.
My daughter, Cookie... I miss you being around, how you pick me up when I’m feeling down.
My brother, Will... I miss the way you laugh, the things you do and your terrific barbecue.
To all of you... I just want to say, we love and miss you this Holiday.
From, your loving mother and sister, Robenia and the family.
DEATH LIST
ADEN FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Bobbie Lee Marbury, Valrico, FL.
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Ricardo McCalop, Jr., Tampa.
Mrs. Patricia Young, Tampa.
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Victoria Mina Jean-Bap- tist-Cexil, Tampa, de Haiti.
Gilbert Davis, Tampa.
Anthony Magwood, Tampa.
Melvin James Wynn, Tampa.
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Ms. Zakelia Battle, Val- rico, FL.
Mr. Harley Dunning, Tampa.
Ms. Bobbie Larry, Tampa. Mr. Joshua Pratts, Tampa. Ms. Ivory Rodriguez,
Tampa.
Mrs. Lizzie Stevenson,
Riverview, FL.
Ms. Shirley Thompson
Tampa.
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Charles Burnett, Tampa. Elmott Vance, Sr., Tampa. Jeffrey James, Tampa.
DONTAE MORRIS
... Facing 3 Death Sentences and 1 Life Sentence
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Hillsborough County
Judge William Fuente
threw out a 4th murder charge against Dontae Morris on Monday.
Morris had already been convicted of murder in three previous trials. The judge did not give a reason why the charges were dismissed against Morris.
Morris, now 30, had been given three death sen- tences and life in prison sen- tence. A trial date had not been set in the fourth murder trial in which Morris was the defendant.
Morris is accused of going on a killing spree that resulted in the deaths of 5 Tampa men. The first mur- der took place on May 18, 2010 with the shooting of Derek Anderson and ended June 29, 2010 with the deaths of two Tampa Po- lice officers.
In July 2015, a jury con- victed him of 21-year-old Anderson’s murder. An-
HAROLD WRIGHT
derson was shot in the back at an East Tampa apartment complex. Morris was sen- tenced to death earlier this month.
Police said ballistics proved that the handgun that killed Anderson was the same weapon used in the murders of Tampa Police Of- ficers Jeff Kocab and David Curtis nearly six weeks later.
Morris was given the death penalty for killing the officers also.
He was also convicted of killing Rodney Jones on May 31, 2010. Jones, 41, died after being shot outside the Cotton Club, 2405 W. Al- bany Avenue. He was sen- tenced to life in prison without the possibility of pa- role.
The fourth murder trial would have been for the death of 25-year-old Harold Wright. Wright’s body was found on the side of a Palm River road on June 8, 2010. No trial date had been scheduled for that murder charge.
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