{"id":19534,"date":"2013-02-11T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19534"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:33:21","slug":"mrs-blondell-bright-celebrates-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19534","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Blondell Bright Celebrates 90th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 90th Birthday Prayer Breakfast honoring <strong>Mrs. Blondell Luellen Warmack<\/strong> <strong>Livingston Bright<\/strong> on Saturday, January 19, 2013. The breakfast was held at her E. North Bay St. residence. The event was hosted by her descendants, chaired by <strong>Gussie Louise Livingston.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For her 90th birthday, <strong>Mrs. Bright<\/strong> received letters and proclamations from <strong>President Barack<\/strong> and <strong>First Lady Michelle<\/strong> <strong>Obama, Senator Bill Nelson, Governor Rick<\/strong> <strong>Scott;<\/strong> a tribute from <strong>State Representative Betty Reed;<\/strong> <strong>County Commissioner Les Miller,<\/strong> <strong>Mayor Bob<\/strong> <strong>Buckhorn,<\/strong> and <strong>City Councilman Frank Reddick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To her delight, the family prepared a program that uplifted her spirits. Program participants were: <strong>Reverend Earl B. Mason, Sr., Mrs. Juanita Gued, Deacon Ang Andy Faison, Sr., Dominic<\/strong> <strong>Kennedy <\/strong>(great-great grandson), <strong>Leandra Thomas Robinson<\/strong> (great niece), <strong>Joyce M. Marshall<\/strong> (eldest living daughter), <strong>Rev. Alphonso B. Livingston, Sr., Gloria Clark Polack Fleming, Lesley \u201cLes\u201d Miller, Delano Stewart, <\/strong>Esquire,<strong> Wallace<\/strong> <strong>McDonald<\/strong> (god brother), <strong>Millie Alalia Presley<\/strong> (granddaughter), <strong>Caleb<\/strong> <strong>Daymond<\/strong> (great grandson), <strong>Maurice J. Jackson, Donna Douglas, Gussie Livingston<\/strong> (daughter), <strong>Rev. Matthew James<\/strong>, and remarks from the honoree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Blondell Luellen Warmack Livingston Bright, seated, is shown with her children, standing: Joyce M. Marshall (Tampa), Donnell Livingston (Fayetteville, NC), Bessie M. Love (Winder, GA), Gussie L. Livingston (Tampa), Alfonso B. Livingston (Opa Locka), Maxine E. Daymond, and Cynthia D. Williams, both of Tampa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 90th Birthday Prayer Breakfast honoring Mrs. Blondell Luellen Warmack Livingston Bright on Saturday, January 19, 2013. The breakfast was held at her E. North Bay St. residence. The event was hosted by her descendants, chaired by Gussie Louise Livingston. For her 90th birthday, Mrs. Bright received letters and proclamations from President Barack and First [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19534","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=19534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}