{"id":10369,"date":"2011-10-03T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10369"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:00:08","slug":"wife-of-funeral-home-owner-dies-after-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10369","title":{"rendered":"Wife Of Funeral Home Owner Dies After Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wife of a Tampa funeral home co-owner died at a local hospital on Saturday. Her death came after a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Sarah Murray Northern<\/strong>, was married to <strong>David Northern, II<\/strong>, co-owner of Ray Williams Funeral Home, for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, <strong>Jeff Rhodes<\/strong> and <strong>Northern<\/strong> became the owners of the funeral home and launched the partnership of Rhodes &amp; Northern. Her daughter, <strong>Orathai<\/strong>, said <strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> was a great supporter of the funeral home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rhodes<\/strong> said, \u201c<strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> was a key administrator and a great supporter of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> was a member of College Hill Church of God in Christ and was very involved in the church. She was also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and was very active in that organization as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> completed her education at the University of South Florida and became an employee with the Hillsborough County Public School District. She began her career as an Occupational Specialist in the 1973-74 school year and retired at the end of the 1995-96 school year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> earned certification in her field on the Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational level during her career, a spokesperson for the Hillsborough County School District said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her husband, <strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> is survived by three children, <strong>Davina<\/strong>, <strong>David, III<\/strong>, and <strong>Orathai<\/strong>; three grandchildren, one great grandchild, other family members and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for <strong>Mrs. Northern<\/strong> were incomplete as of press time. Ray Williams Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor The wife of a Tampa funeral home co-owner died at a local hospital on Saturday. Her death came after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Sarah Murray Northern, was married to David Northern, II, co-owner of Ray Williams Funeral Home, for more than 40 years. In 1991, Jeff Rhodes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}