{"id":81650,"date":"2017-07-20T02:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=81650"},"modified":"2017-07-20T02:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:52:06","slug":"obituary-announcement-santigie-fofanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=81650","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Announcement &#8211; Santigie Fofanah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death is reported of Mr. Santigie Fofanah (aged 59), aka Tigi, at his residence in Dallas, Texas in the United States on July 16, 2017. \u00a0He is survived by his wife, Georgia Fofanah in Dallas, Texas; his two daughters, Jenebah Fofanah in Houston Texas, Kadiatu Fofanah (KD) in Dallas, Texas; his two sons including Santigie Fofanah Jr. in Dallas Texas and Saidu Fofanah in Freetown. \u00a0Grand children: Shaiek Mohamed Lamin Koyateh, Samira Banda, Emiliana Enow, Moses Enow Jr. All of Texas, USA. \u00a0Big brother, Mr. Abdul Hassan Fofanah of Makeni. \u00a0Other relatives include; Mohamed Warratay, Adama Sesay, Alice Warratay,\u00a0 Umaru Fofanah and Sanpha Sesay all of Dallas, Texas. \u00a0Close friends include, Alhaji Mohamed Jalloh former superstar footballer, Mustapha Sesay, Mr. &amp; Mrs. Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Santigie Fofanah was a tailor by profession and he was a member of the Duncanville Muslim community in the area he lived. \u00a0He migrated to the United States in 1990 and he became well-known in his community as a fashion designer. \u00a0His interests included family, gardening, sewing and music. \u00a0He devoted much of his time and energy in Islam, as a caregiver to family members, including his brother Mr. Abdul Hassan Fofanah until he passed away at age 59.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81653\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81653\" src=\"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Santigie-Fofanah-aka-Tigie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"448\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santigie Fofanah aka Tigie<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death is reported of Mr. Santigie Fofanah (aged 59), aka Tigi, at his residence in Dallas, Texas in the United States on July 16, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":81652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14394],"tags":[21498,7281,21953,21954],"class_list":["post-81650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-featured","tag-obituary","tag-santigie-fofanah","tag-tigi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81654,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81650\/revisions\/81654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}