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LocalMother, Daughter Returned To Their Homes
88th Surprise Birthday Celebration For Matriarch Mary
Lee Carroll Holliday Brantley
An 88th Surprise Birthday Celebration was held on Saturday, May 4th for Matriarch Mary Lee Carroll Holliday Brantley at Noble Crust Carrollwood.
Mrs. Brantley is the daughter of Benjamin and Eunice Carroll, who are deceased. The Carrolls were the parents of 16 children of whom two are still living, Ms. Brantley and her younger sister, Ms. Annie Bell Johnson, who was present at the surprise celebration.
Mrs. Brantley is the mother of 13 children, of which three are deceased, grandmother of 32 grand-children, great-grandmother of over 100 children, and great, great-grandmother of over 20 children.
Attending from left to right, first row: Carol Brown, Sheryl Brown, Geneiveve Elling- ton, and Sandylyn Holliday. Second row left to right, Matriarch Mary Brantley, Sylvia Williams, Avelina Merced, Myrtice Johnson, Robin Robinson, and Annie Bell Eng- lish. Third row, left to right: Peggie Lundy, Lisa Simmons Harris, Steve Zagurski, Rox- sandra Stephenson, Amaya Stephenson, Elizabeth Lundy, Dennis Lundy, Denise Lundy, Eddie Flewellen, Jasmine James, Mario Rejouir and Christine Tyler.
After European Vacation
GLORIA W. DAVIS ...Flew from Tampa
A mother and her daugh- ter recently returned to their respective homes after an ex- citing European vacation.
During the second week of May, Gloria W. Davis flew from her home in Tampa for over 10 hours to Amsterdam, Netherlands. At the airport there, she met her daughter, Victoria D. Saho, who flew in from Atlanta, GA.
The pair boarded a Viking cruise ship and sailed for 8 days, touring 4 countries and enjoying 6 guided tours.
The first set of tours were in Kinderdijk, Netherlands, which included physical tours
VICTORIA D. SAHO ...Flew from Atlanta
through some of their 19 his- toric windmills. Most of them were built in the Mid-18th Century. Some of the wind- mills were living quarters for some Dutch residents.
The remainder of their tours occurred during their visits in Cologne, Koblenz, Rudesheim, Heidelberg and Speyer, Germany.
Their final tour included their walk on a tall bridge that separates Breisach, Germany from Strasbourg, France.
On the following day, the ladies spent most of their time flying back to their homes in the United States.
Summer Brings The Heat To The National Days Of Kindness
Summer National Days Of Kindness Begin Today
Being kind is its own re- ward, but For The Family is going a big step further dur- ing the National Days of Kindness that begin on Fri- day, June 14.
You and your friends are invited to do a random act of kindness and describe it in a “selfie” smartphone video that’s emailed to ForThe- FamilyTampa@gmail.com by June 30th. It can be as simple as making people happy at a Senior Center, school, or hospital. If you want to be creatively kind, so much the better. You can even record your kind action as it happens. Everyone knows that the reward for brightening someone’s day is larger than the effort it takes.
However, For The Family will make do even more to make it worth your while by pre- senting a $25 Publix Gift Card for the winning video. Every NDK video is also eligible to win a Family Flame Award and a $100 Gift Card in the Random Act of Kindness category at the Fourth Annual National FAM Awards on November 22 in Tampa.
This is the “Academy Awards of Kindness,” where the best videos are honored just like movies get Oscars. It culminates Kindness of the Heart activities that are tak- ing place from coast-to-coast in the U. S. and Canada.
Meanwhile, “Family Flame Awards” and $100 Gift Cards will also be pre- sented for smartphone “selfie” videos that nominate deserving parents, sisters,
Summer National Days of Kindness is shown in the smiles these youngsters wear.
brothers, sons, daughters, volunteers, and First Re- sponders. Praise and Grati- tude and Kindness to and from Animals are other
award categories. For The Family is already accepting video nominations at ForTheFamilyTampa@gmail .com.
There’s no easier way to prove the power of kindness. Thanks for helping it shine when we can use every bit of light there is.
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