Black Women : First Black SC legislator dies a sad death

Seems this was missed in the article

Her son said she worked several years as a case manager for the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, although a spokesman said the agency had no records of her employment. At one point, she also started a nonprofit tutoring service called the Juanita W. Goggins School of Excellence.

"We lost a great trailblazer," said Scott, a Democrat from Columbia. "Our family's very saddened this happened to a person who's given so much."

Why she withdrew remains a mystery even to her son. He attributes it to her illness, which was never fully diagnosed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/juanita-goggins-dead-once_n_495498.html


M.E.

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And more pertinent info...


Neighbors said she was always a private person. One neighbor said she would return her waves, but refused to let visitors in the door.

Coroner Gary Watts said she died of hypothermia, probably about Feb. 20, and said he found indications of dementia. When she died, during a cold snap, Goggins was wearing several layers of clothing, yet her heat was working at the time.

She had money to pay her bills, but the utility company said it shut off the electricity for nonpayment Feb. 23. Watts said it appeared Goggins was using Sterno to cook, but her stove was still functioning when police climbed through a window and found her.

State Sen. John Scott, whose realty company owns Goggins' home, said he and his sister tried to take care of Goggins as best as they could without prying.

"We lost a great trailblazer," said Scott, a Democrat from Columbia. "Our family's very saddened this happened to a person who's given so much."

His sister who manages the property, Linda Marshall, said Goggins declined help from the county.

"She needed someone to assist her, but anyone who tried to get close, she'd block them off," she said. "She was very fragile. This was something I always dreaded."

Why she withdrew remains a mystery even to her son. He attributes it to her illness, which was never fully diagnosed.

"That's something I've been trying to get my head around for the last 15 years," said Horace Goggins Jr., 42, of Powder Springs, Ga.

He last saw her about six months ago. She would not let him help her either, he said.
 
okay.. now it's sad. it's sad because her son didn't take care of her.

He must feel like a complete sh**..

Diagnoses or not.. when your folks get up in age, we have a responsibility to get in there and act in their best interest..


Maybe and maybe not.

We don't really know what attempts the son made to help his mother.

Moreover, as long as his mother was not a threat to her own safety or others, then there was no reason to forcibly take her out of her own home.

According to her son and others who lived nearby, she would reject any who tried to assist her and even refused visitors. (more so after being mugged. --Apparently, she became even more leery and paranoid)

We don't know to what extinct the son tried to help his mother or how she refused his help.

Other than legally assuming guardianship of his mother, we don't know what else he could have done or didn't do to help her.
 
Chances are....

cherryblossom said:
she would reject any who tried to assist her and even refused visitors.

I'm thinking it mighta had something to do with a TRAUMATIC experience and here are theFACTS


A. She was a DARK SKINNED INTELLIGENT WOMAN OF AFREEKAN DESCENT
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B. The early seventies was a marked period in the lives of Afreekan Descendants who were interested and active in HELPING AND PROTECTING CHILDREN OF AFREEKAN DESCENT.
Can we say BLACK PANTHERS who were interested in the CARE, PROTECTION, APPROPRIATE EDUCATION for BLACK CHILDREN

C. Their was an active movement by european descendants to routinely use Terrorist tactics to quash any thing remotely connected to B above.


She taught in the state's segregated schools, married a dentist and got into politics. In 1972, she became the first black woman to represent South Carolina as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Two years later, she became the first black woman appointed to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

The former teacher also helped pass the 1977 law that is still the basis for education funding in the state. Her proposals to expand kindergarten and to reduce student-teacher ratios in the primary grades were adopted after she left politics in 1980, citing health issues.

"She was not bashful or anything. She liked to talk. I used to say she could sell an Eskimo ice," recalled Ilese Dixon, 88, of Pendleton, Goggins' last surviving sibling. "She was just lively and smart. She thought she could fix the world."

How she went from this to what you have noted...:10500::fyi:s

Based on HIStory...:10500:

I'm jus sayin...:wink:
What you/ya'll think:?:

Maybe she was KEEPING HERSELF SAFE from others....and others SAFE from HER...:)

M.E.
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