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Funeral/Card Of Thanks
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FAMILY NOTICE
Funeral Held For Tampa Resident
Death Sentence Commuted By Missouri Gov. After Killer Confesses To Acting Alone
MR. WILLIE FRANK COLEY, JR.
Funeral services for Mr. Willie Frank Coley, Jr., of Tampa, were held on Saturday, October 3rd. Mr. Coley was 83- years-old.
Mr. Coley is survived by his son, daughter, siblings, other family members and friends.
JACKSONS FUNERAL HOME was in charge of handling arrangements.
For years, Kimber Edwards, sentenced to death in his ex-wife’s murder in 2000, proclaimed that he did not hire anyone to carry out a killing. Now, someone has finally lis- tened. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) on Friday commuted Edwards’ death sentence to life in prison after a newspaper reported that the man convicted of carrying out the killing said he acted alone.
Nixon, however, said in a state- ment that he was satisfied that the ev- idence in the case supported Edwards’ first-degree murder con- viction and that Edwards will re- main in prison for the rest of his life, the report says.
Kimber Edwards suffers from autism was sentenced to die on Tuesday, however the actual killer confessed to act- ing alone.
Orthell Wilson, who had claimed that Edwards hired him to kill his ex-wife, Kimberly Cantrell, recently changed his story, telling a journalist that he had acted on his own, according to the St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Edwards had been sched- uled to be executed Tuesday.
Edwards reportedly confessed to the crime initially but said during his trial and ever since that he was inno- cent, the report says. Edwards suf- fers from a form of autism that could have made him vulnerable to manip- ulation by aggressive interrogation techniques, thus possibly causing him to make a false confession, his lawyers say.
DEATH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR
ARLENE BUTLER CHEARS
The family of Arlene Butler Chears acknow- ledges with deep appre- ciation the many comforting messages, visits, prayers, floral arrangements and other expressions of kindness during Arlene’s illness and homegoing.
May God bless you.
South Carolina Faces Worst Rain In 1,000 Years
Ammie McKnight watches the floodwaters rise around her home in Georgetown, S.C.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Persistent torrential rain- fall in South Carolina caused dangerous flooding in main cities on Sunday and prompted hundreds of rescues through shoulder-deep waters across the southeastern state.
No deaths had been reported in the flooding, al- though five traffic fatalities in North and South Car- olina were blamed on some of the wettest weather in recent memory.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said parts of the state were hit with rainfall that would be expected to occur once in a thousand years, with the Congaree River running at its highest level since 1936.
Sunday rains flooded highways along the South Carolina coast between Charleston and Georgetown, the National Weather Service, or NWS, said. The coastal city of Georgetown, population 9,000, was
A car tries to go through floodwaters in Georgetown, S.C.
predominantly under water. Inland flooding also hit the state capital, Columbia, where the Congaree rose 10 feet in 12 hours and was at flood level, according to local officials.
State emergency officials urged residents not to travel due to unsafe roads and curfews were instated in several places, including Columbia. Schools and universities in South Carolina canceled classes on Monday.
Columbia has a population of about 130,000 and is at the confluence of several rivers swollen by sev- eral days of heavy rains.
President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in South Carolina on Saturday, making federal emergency funds available.
More than 18 inches of rain have fallen in one area in South Carolina and more is expected, forecasters said.
DEATH LIST
ADEN FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Charles E. Slater, Sr., Tampa.
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Dante Causey, Tampa.
Mrs. Juanita Davis Grey, Tampa.
Mrs. Maxine Kirkpatrick, Tampa.
Mr. Robert Earl Pitts, Tampa. Mr. Johnny Sanders, Tampa. Mrs. Jessie Mae Shellman,
Tampa.
Mr. Jeff Shields, Tampa.
CREAL FUNERAL HOME Kate Carnegie, Tampa.
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Alice Beard.
Mrs. Sherry Denise Barr. Mr. Alvin B. Graham.
Mr. Gary Mizell.
Mr. Robert Webb Walker. Mr. Robert William Walters.
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Melvina Singleton, Tampa. Mrs. Agnes E. Williams, Tampa.
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Shirley D. Hemming- way, Tampa.
Mr. Lonnie Powell, Sr., Tampa. Mr. Willard Riley, Tampa. Mrs. Bettye J. Scott, Tampa. Mr. Rodney Curtis Sutton,
Gibsonton, FL.
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