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FAMILY NOTICE
DR. ARNETIA SAMPSON MAASHA
Dr. Arnetia Sampson Maasha, 74, passed away peace- fully on September 8, 2017 in Douglas, GA. She was born on November 8, 1942, the daugh- ter of Vanderbilt Sampson and Esther Butler in Tampa, FL. A graduate of St. Peter Claver Catholic School and Middleton High School Class of 1960, she attended St. Petersburg Junior College, City College of New York and earned MSW and PhD degrees from Columbia Univer- sity. She married Ntungwa Maasha in 1972 and they had 2 sons.
In 1978, the family moved to Liberia, West Africa where she was a Professor and later Test- ing Director at the University of Liberia. She then worked for the U. S. Peace Corps as Train- ing Director. On return to the U. S., she was a social worker for the Glynn County School System for nearly 30 years, ful- filling her lifelong passion for helping children in need and encouraging their education.
Dedicated to her Catholic faith, daily mass and prayer were central to her life. She was commissioned a lectorin May 1982 in the Archdiocese of Monrovia and would later train future lectors. A pivotal mo- ment in her life was meeting Mother Teresa at a conference in Hong Kong in 1986. She would later spend a month in Calcutta, India volunteering with the Missionaries of Char- ity there.
She also made several Mar- ian pilgrimages to Mexico, France, Portugal and Israel. She loved to travel and visited every state in the USA and over 30 countries on 6 continents. She was active in many charita- ble, arts and alumni organiza- tions throughout her life and was a lifetime member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Dr. Arnetia Maasha is sur- vived by: her husband, Dr. Ntungwa Maasha; sons Ru- maasha Maasha of Huntsville, AL and Mutaamba Maasha of Cambridge, MA; sister Edna Butler of West Palm Beach, FL;
and brothers, Oscar (Dinah) Butler and Joseph Butler of Tampa, FL.
Visitation will be from 4 – 7 pm on Friday, September 22, 2017 at the R.L. Jones & Sons Fu- neral Home, 76 Stafford Ave, Brunswick, GA.
The funeral mass will be at 11 am on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 1120 Newcastle St, Brunswick, GA.
MRS. MAUDIEN SMART DORSEY
Mrs. Maudien Smart Dorsey passed away on Sept. 17, 2017. She was a longtime native of Tampa, FL.
BRIA ASHLEY SMITH
Bria Ashley Smith was called home to rest on Sun- day, September 17, 2017. Bria was born April 13, 1990 in Tampa to Arleen Smith. She was a sweet young lady who enjoyed playing with her siblings.
A “Celebratory Repast” will be held Saturday, Sep- tember 23, 2017, at Rivers of Life Ministries, 301 North Lakewood in Brandon @ 11:00 a.m.
National
As Hurricane Maria Passes Through
Puerto Rico, Images Stream In
Showing Storm’s Devastation
Hurricane Maria’s eye passed over Puerto Rico hours ago, but early reports and footage from the island indi- cate that the worst may be yet to come. The dangerous storm, which hit land as a Cat- egory 4, has left the entire is- land—nearly 3.5 million people—without electricity, according to a number of out- lets.
As evening approaches, residents and visitors will be left to assess the damage in the dark or wait until daylight. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warn- ings for several municipalities that are expected to last until 9 p.m. The NWS also warned that the driving rain could
Rescue-team members Candida Lozada and Stephanie Rivera, along with Mary Rodriguez and Zuly Ruiz, embrace as they wait to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 20, 2017.
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cause mudslides. So far, one Puerto Rican mayor said that
80 percent of the buildings in his city were destroyed.
Obama Slams GOP Health Care Proposal
In a rare public appear- ance eight months after leav- ing office, former President Barack Obama took shots at his successor's plans on health care and foreign policy but didn't criticize him by name.
In a speech and question- and-answer session that closely resembled the types of appearances he favored as president, Obama called re- peated efforts to repeal his signature health care law "frustrating." He defended in- stitutions like the United Na- tions as essential to collective diplomacy. And he warned against nationalism and xeno-
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Former President Barack Obama
phobia, saying they threaten to stymie progress that has made the world more livable.
"It may be frustrating that
we have to mobilize every cou- ple months to keep our lead- ers from inflicting real human suffering on their con- stituents," Obama said of the health care battle. "But typi- cally, that's how progress is won."
Obama's speech at an event sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda- tion came during Trump's first trip to the UN General Assembly, the yearly gather- ing of diplomats in New York. As Obama spoke, Trump was shuttling between meet- ings with the leaders of the Palestinian Authority and var- ious countries in Africa.
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Man Dating Laurence Fishburne’s Wife Identified As Tech ‘Cowboy’
Recently, Laurence Fishburne’s wife, Gina Torres, was spotted kissing another man, and that man has since been identified as tech entrepreneur Kevin Wright, a father of six from Utah.
The two of them report- edly met in mid-August on Dana Point, California, where they bonded over the fact that they had both recently left long relationships.
According to Page Six sources, Wright didn’t even know who Torres was at first.
According to a source
GINA TORRES AND LAURENCE FISHBURNE
close to the two of them, “I think when you’ve been mar- ried a long time and you be- come single, you look for someone that has what your
ex was missing. I think [Tor- res] finds in Kevin what she didn’t find in [Fishburne]. He’s the opposite of a Holly- wood guy — he’s just a cow- boy type. He’s an ‘I’m going to go ride my horse’ type of guy.”
After Torres was spotted kissing Wright despite hav- ing been married to Fish- burne since 2002, she put out a statement saying, “With heavy hearts, Laurence and I quietly separated and began the dissolution of our mar- riage in the early fall of last year.”
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