A3 SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM >> SUNDAY + PLUS RIP, Summer job hunt Ben heats up 1D Duke 1C TRAVEL TALES Opinion/4A Memorial Day marked at VA/3A Claims self-defense; state attorney doubtful WWII VET Man shoots son-in-law to 2A A DAY OF death as family watches MEMORIES FWHS grads’ trek begins High school behind them, now comes life 127 took the walk Photos by RAY CARPENTER/Special to the Reporter Fort White High graduates Andrea and Rachel Steedley MICHAEL PHILIPS/Lake City Reporter at Arrowhead embrace after commencement exercises Friday night. World War II veteran Joseph M. Sampson, 94, poses with wife, Marianne, and his son Joseph Sampson By TONY BRITT Jr. outside the Lake City VA Medical Center. Joseph
[email protected] and Marianne celebrate their 70th wedding anni- FORT WHITE — For 127 mem- versary today. bers of the Fort White High School class of 2019, their collective last memory of high school will be of Veteran recalls hugging classmates, family and friends while fireworks exploded overhead. Fort White High held the school’s his time at sea 19th annual commencement exer- By MICHAEL PHILIPS cises Friday night at Arrowhead
[email protected] Stadium. During the ceremony students If you have ever had the pleasure of being regaled talked about memories created with war stories from a vet, you wonder how much of during their 13-year school career ABOVE: Co-valedictorians Kahnayla Taylor and Bethany Harris what you are being told is true and how much is play- ful exaggeration.