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Monday, February 20, 2017Memorial High School Class of 2011. She was attending the University of Connecticut pursuing her Bachelors in Human Development and Family Services with a minor in Urban Studies. Sam was employed at Homewood Suites in Windsor Locks. She enjoyed knitting, reading, sudoko puzzles, fishing and hiking with family and friends. Samantha will be greatly missed by her family and friends. She is survived by her mother, Debra (Bonfiglio) McDonald and her fiancé, Tony Brown of Enfield; her father, John McDonald, Jr. and Eunice Johnson of Barkhamsted; her sister, Karly McDonald of Windsor Locks; her brother, John McDonald, III of Barkhamsted; her paternal grandfather, John McDonald, Sr. of Barkhamsted; her boyfriend, Casey Perry of Windsor Locks; her aunts, Cindy Good and her husband, Steve, Geri Montgomery and her husband, John, Celeste Wilson and her husband, Chip; Debbie Sherwin and her wife, Kathy Beck and family and several cousins and friends. Relatives and friends are welcome to join the family on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the Windsor Locks Funeral Home, 441 Spring St., Windsor Locks. A funeral service for Sam will be celebrated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at 11 am at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Enfield Street Cemetery. For online expressions of sympathy or directions please visit www.windsorlocksfuneralhome.co...
Sunday, February 12, 2017Lambert Feltman, 70, died November 2, 2014. Funeral service will be held at Jefferson Memorial, Trussville, Tuesday, November 4 at 2 p.m. with visitation at 1 p.m. Alvin Victor Filer Jr., 88, of Homewood, died October 25, 2014. Memorial service November 9 at 3 p.m. at Southern Heritage Funeral Home. A reception and celebration of his life will precede the service from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. James M. Gardner died November 2, 2014. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 5 at Liberty Baptist Church with visitation from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Elizabeth Brittain Becky Gargus, 69, died October 30, 2014. Visitation will be Tuesday, November 4 at 10 a.m. at Lester Memorial United Methodist Church in Oneonta with service at 11 a.m. Wavelyn Yvonne Foster-Hartley, 70 of Birmingham, died Oct. 28, 2014. Funeral service will be held at First Memorial Baptist Church on Tues., Nov. 4 at 12 p.m. with burial at Elmwood Cemetery. Ray Hughes, of Warrior, died Oct. 27, 2014. A private family service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Liberty Minter Cemetery, Kimberly. Lula Jones, 85, of Bessemer, died October 31, 2014. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, November 6 at 1 p.m. at Faith Memorial Chapel (Bessemer) with at George Washington Carver Memorial Cemetery. James E. Kelly, 93, of Birmingham, died November 2, 2014. Visitation will be Wednesday, November 5, from 12 p.m to 1 p.m. at Currie-Jefferson Funeral Home. Services will follow at 1 p.m. in the Chapel. William Lee Lucas, 65, of Birmingham, died November 1, 2014. Funeral services will be hel...
Monday, January 02, 2017Woolweaver's two children - 13-year-old son Chandler and 7-year-old daughter Kate Ashton - are being cared for by family members. Chandler's father died in 2015.Woolweaver graduated from Homewood High School, where she was a member of the Star-Spangled Girls, in 1997 and then attended UAB where she studied early childhood education. According to her LinkedIn profile, she had "over 19 years of experience in the real estate and banking industry, highly competitive, persuasive and ethical, able to achieve results others believed to be impossible."She started her career at Wachovia where she worked for six years, before becoming a small business banker at Regions in 2007. The next year, she became assistant vice president at Renasant Bank. In 2011, she became controller and director of operations at Orange Development Inc. in Birmingham and left there in January 2015."Connie was loved by a vast number of friends and family,'' according to her obituary Sunday in The Birmingham News. "She was a beautiful person inside and out and will be greatly missed.""Her honesty in work, amazing ability to accomplish many tasks at once, tireless energy to help in schools and community events that benefited others, and devotion to those in her life left many impressed and inspired all to do more for others,'' the obituary reads.Friends have started a GoFundMe to help raise money for Woolweaver's children, which already has reached nearly $22,000.Friends will also hold a celebration of life event for Woolseaver at Aloft hotel in downtown Homewood on Dec. 22. It will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., and there will be a cash bar. Friends, family, and anyone else who would like to celebrate are welcome to attend, organizers say. The celebration is called "Remembering a Star: A life celebration for Connie."This article passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False.
Monday, December 19, 2016Properties, Dignity Memorial-Katy Funeral Home, Duffey and Grissom CPA's, GNA Inspections, Goddard School, Grand Vision Center, HCC Northwest, H-E-B, Herff Jones Houston, Heritage Texas Properties, Homewood Suites Katy, Houston Community College, Houston SPCA, Junior Achievement, Katy Council PTA, Katy Independent School District, Katy Magazine, Keep Katy Beautiful, Kind Bars, Listl Translating Services & More LLC, LPL Financial, Marriott Energy Corridor Hotel, Maude Marks Branch Library, Members Choice Credit Union, Memorial Hermann Hospital System and Must See Katy.Also participating were Nutty Scientists Fort Bend, Omni Houston Hotel at Westside, PBK, PDQ, Pepper Lawson, PrimeLending, Prosperity Bank, Pump It Up, Second Baptist Church, Signarama Katy, Sovereign Wealth Advisors LLC, Spring Creek Barbeque, Stanley Signature Signs, Star Learning, State Farm Insurance, Sylvan Learning, Target, The Glaser Group McDonald's, The Shady Lady Window Covering, The Tutoring Center Katy, Tilt Studio, Times Square Entertainment, Wee Kare Pediatrics, Which Wich, Whole Foods Market Katy/Sugar Land, Wood Group, Yellow Rose Properties and YES Youth Fitness and Sports Performance."Promise to Read has become a treasured community event thanks to hundreds of devoted community volunteers, many of whom join us every year, and our Katy ISD host campuses," said Janet Theis, Katy ISD's director of community partnerships.Visit www.katyisd.org and go to the "Community" tab to learn more about Partners in Education.Dec. 8 is deadline for Food for FamiliesThe Katy ISD Partners in Education department invites the community to support families in need this holiday season.Food for Families, an annual campaign, provides $50 grocery gift cards to Katy ISD students and their families. Principals from every district campus identify students in need of assistance, and the gift cards are given to them before winter break.Last year, the community raised $25,000 to support students and their families during...
Monday, December 19, 2016Woolweaver's two children - 13-year-old son Chandler and 7-year-old daughter Kate Ashton - are being cared for by family members. Chandler's father died in 2015.Woolweaver graduated from Homewood High School, where she was a member of the Star-Spangled Girls, in 1997 and then attended UAB where she studied early childhood education. According to her LinkedIn profile, she had "over 19 years of experience in the real estate and banking industry, highly competitive, persuasive and ethical, able to achieve results others believed to be impossible."She started her career at Wachovia where she worked for six years, before becoming a small business banker at Regions in 2007. The next year, she became assistant vice president at Renasant Bank. In 2011, she became controller and director of operations at Orange Development Inc. in Birmingham and left there in January 2015."Connie was loved by a vast number of friends and family,'' according to her obituary Sunday in The Birmingham News. "She was a beautiful person inside and out and will be greatly missed.""Her honesty in work, amazing ability to accomplish many tasks at once, tireless energy to help in schools and community events that benefited others, and devotion to those in her life left many impressed and inspired all to do more for others,'' the obituary reads.Friends have started a GoFundMe to help raise money for Woolweaver's children, which already has reached nearly $22,000.Friends will also hold a celebration of life event for Woolseaver at Aloft hotel in downtown Homewood on Dec. 22. It will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., and there will be a cash bar. Friends, family, and anyone else who would like to celebrate are welcome to attend, organizers say. The celebration is called "Remembering a Star: A life celebration for Connie."...
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Monday, February 20, 2017Memorial High School Class of 2011. She was attending the University of Connecticut pursuing her Bachelors in Human Development and Family Services with a minor in Urban Studies. Sam was employed at Homewood Suites in Windsor Locks. She enjoyed knitting, reading, sudoko puzzles, fishing and hiking with family and friends. Samantha will be greatly missed by her family and friends. She is survived by her mother, Debra (Bonfiglio) McDonald and her fiancé, Tony Brown of Enfield; her father, John McDonald, Jr. and Eunice Johnson of Barkhamsted; her sister, Karly McDonald of Windsor Locks; her brother, John McDonald, III of Barkhamsted; her paternal grandfather, John McDonald, Sr. of Barkhamsted; her boyfriend, Casey Perry of Windsor Locks; her aunts, Cindy Good and her husband, Steve, Geri Montgomery and her husband, John, Celeste Wilson and her husband, Chip; Debbie Sherwin and her wife, Kathy Beck and family and several cousins and friends. Relatives and friends are welcome to join the family on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the Windsor Locks Funeral Home, 441 Spring St., Windsor Locks. A funeral service for Sam will be celebrated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at 11 am at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Enfield Street Cemetery. For online expressions of sympathy or directions please visit www.windsorlocksfuneralhome.co...
Sunday, February 12, 2017Lambert Feltman, 70, died November 2, 2014. Funeral service will be held at Jefferson Memorial, Trussville, Tuesday, November 4 at 2 p.m. with visitation at 1 p.m. Alvin Victor Filer Jr., 88, of Homewood, died October 25, 2014. Memorial service November 9 at 3 p.m. at Southern Heritage Funeral Home. A reception and celebration of his life will precede the service from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. James M. Gardner died November 2, 2014. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 5 at Liberty Baptist Church with visitation from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Elizabeth Brittain Becky Gargus, 69, died October 30, 2014. Visitation will be Tuesday, November 4 at 10 a.m. at Lester Memorial United Methodist Church in Oneonta with service at 11 a.m. Wavelyn Yvonne Foster-Hartley, 70 of Birmingham, died Oct. 28, 2014. Funeral service will be held at First Memorial Baptist Church on Tues., Nov. 4 at 12 p.m. with burial at Elmwood Cemetery. Ray Hughes, of Warrior, died Oct. 27, 2014. A private family service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Liberty Minter Cemetery, Kimberly. Lula Jones, 85, of Bessemer, died October 31, 2014. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, November 6 at 1 p.m. at Faith Memorial Chapel (Bessemer) with at George Washington Carver Memorial Cemetery. James E. Kelly, 93, of Birmingham, died November 2, 2014. Visitation will be Wednesday, November 5, from 12 p.m to 1 p.m. at Currie-Jefferson Funeral Home. Services will follow at 1 p.m. in the Chapel. William Lee Lucas, 65, of Birmingham, died November 1, 2014. Funeral services will be hel...
Monday, January 02, 2017Woolweaver's two children - 13-year-old son Chandler and 7-year-old daughter Kate Ashton - are being cared for by family members. Chandler's father died in 2015.Woolweaver graduated from Homewood High School, where she was a member of the Star-Spangled Girls, in 1997 and then attended UAB where she studied early childhood education. According to her LinkedIn profile, she had "over 19 years of experience in the real estate and banking industry, highly competitive, persuasive and ethical, able to achieve results others believed to be impossible."She started her career at Wachovia where she worked for six years, before becoming a small business banker at Regions in 2007. The next year, she became assistant vice president at Renasant Bank. In 2011, she became controller and director of operations at Orange Development Inc. in Birmingham and left there in January 2015."Connie was loved by a vast number of friends and family,'' according to her obituary Sunday in The Birmingham News. "She was a beautiful person inside and out and will be greatly missed.""Her honesty in work, amazing ability to accomplish many tasks at once, tireless energy to help in schools and community events that benefited others, and devotion to those in her life left many impressed and inspired all to do more for others,'' the obituary reads.Friends have started a GoFundMe to help raise money for Woolweaver's children, which already has reached nearly $22,000.Friends will also hold a celebration of life event for Woolseaver at Aloft hotel in downtown Homewood on Dec. 22. It will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., and there will be a cash bar. Friends, family, and anyone else who would like to celebrate are welcome to attend, organizers say. The celebration is called "Remembering a Star: A life celebration for Connie."This article passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False.
Monday, December 19, 2016Properties, Dignity Memorial-Katy Funeral Home, Duffey and Grissom CPA's, GNA Inspections, Goddard School, Grand Vision Center, HCC Northwest, H-E-B, Herff Jones Houston, Heritage Texas Properties, Homewood Suites Katy, Houston Community College, Houston SPCA, Junior Achievement, Katy Council PTA, Katy Independent School District, Katy Magazine, Keep Katy Beautiful, Kind Bars, Listl Translating Services & More LLC, LPL Financial, Marriott Energy Corridor Hotel, Maude Marks Branch Library, Members Choice Credit Union, Memorial Hermann Hospital System and Must See Katy.Also participating were Nutty Scientists Fort Bend, Omni Houston Hotel at Westside, PBK, PDQ, Pepper Lawson, PrimeLending, Prosperity Bank, Pump It Up, Second Baptist Church, Signarama Katy, Sovereign Wealth Advisors LLC, Spring Creek Barbeque, Stanley Signature Signs, Star Learning, State Farm Insurance, Sylvan Learning, Target, The Glaser Group McDonald's, The Shady Lady Window Covering, The Tutoring Center Katy, Tilt Studio, Times Square Entertainment, Wee Kare Pediatrics, Which Wich, Whole Foods Market Katy/Sugar Land, Wood Group, Yellow Rose Properties and YES Youth Fitness and Sports Performance."Promise to Read has become a treasured community event thanks to hundreds of devoted community volunteers, many of whom join us every year, and our Katy ISD host campuses," said Janet Theis, Katy ISD's director of community partnerships.Visit www.katyisd.org and go to the "Community" tab to learn more about Partners in Education.Dec. 8 is deadline for Food for FamiliesThe Katy ISD Partners in Education department invites the community to support families in need this holiday season.Food for Families, an annual campaign, provides $50 grocery gift cards to Katy ISD students and their families. Principals from every district campus identify students in need of assistance, and the gift cards are given to them before winter break.Last year, the community raised $25,000 to support students and their families during...
Monday, December 19, 2016Woolweaver's two children - 13-year-old son Chandler and 7-year-old daughter Kate Ashton - are being cared for by family members. Chandler's father died in 2015.Woolweaver graduated from Homewood High School, where she was a member of the Star-Spangled Girls, in 1997 and then attended UAB where she studied early childhood education. According to her LinkedIn profile, she had "over 19 years of experience in the real estate and banking industry, highly competitive, persuasive and ethical, able to achieve results others believed to be impossible."She started her career at Wachovia where she worked for six years, before becoming a small business banker at Regions in 2007. The next year, she became assistant vice president at Renasant Bank. In 2011, she became controller and director of operations at Orange Development Inc. in Birmingham and left there in January 2015."Connie was loved by a vast number of friends and family,'' according to her obituary Sunday in The Birmingham News. "She was a beautiful person inside and out and will be greatly missed.""Her honesty in work, amazing ability to accomplish many tasks at once, tireless energy to help in schools and community events that benefited others, and devotion to those in her life left many impressed and inspired all to do more for others,'' the obituary reads.Friends have started a GoFundMe to help raise money for Woolweaver's children, which already has reached nearly $22,000.Friends will also hold a celebration of life event for Woolseaver at Aloft hotel in downtown Homewood on Dec. 22. It will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., and there will be a cash bar. Friends, family, and anyone else who would like to celebrate are welcome to attend, organizers say. The celebration is called "Remembering a Star: A life celebration for Connie."...
