{"id":10817,"date":"2011-10-20T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2011-10-20T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:09:12","slug":"public-housing-advocate-dies-after-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10817","title":{"rendered":"Public Housing Advocate Dies After Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For nearly twenty years, a Tampa woman served as an advocate for families residing in a public housing complex. She died on Monday following a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Loujean \u201cMs. Jean\u201d Williams<\/strong>, 68, became an employee of the City of Tampa Police Department March 23, 1970, and assigned to the Crime Prevention Bureau. Under the leadership of the late <strong>Mrs. Patricia Pierce Coleman<\/strong>, <strong>Mrs. Williams<\/strong> worked in the Robles Park Public Housing Complex.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>Mrs. Pierce Coleman<\/strong> retired, <strong>Mrs. Williams<\/strong> became the Crime Prevention Coordinator. Although she was assigned to the Robles Pond area, she worked with others in other housing complexes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Said Her Goodbyes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mrs. Debbie Brown<\/strong>, <strong>Mrs. Williams\u2019<\/strong> daughter-in-law, said <strong>Mrs. Williams<\/strong> was diagnosed with congestive heart failure several years ago. But, she handled the illness well until about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>She was admitted to the University Community Hospital for tests after complaining of not feeling well. \u201cShe decided she needed rehabilitation and was admitted to John Knox Rehabilitation Center. She was supposed to come home on Monday, but she died at 1:48 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriday night, she had me to hold the telephone to her ear and I called several people for her. She told them goodbye and that she wouldn\u2019t be able to be there for them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sunday, she talked to her son and each of her grandchildren and told them what she wanted them to do. When she was finished, she told the nurse she was ready for the morphine drip,\u201d <strong>Mrs. Brown<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services for <strong>Mrs. Williams<\/strong> will take place on Saturday. Ray Williams Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor For nearly twenty years, a Tampa woman served as an advocate for families residing in a public housing complex. She died on Monday following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Loujean \u201cMs. Jean\u201d Williams, 68, became an employee of the City of Tampa Police Department March 23, 1970, and assigned [&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-10817","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\/10817","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=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}