ka Ka Hui Hoʻolālā Caribbean (CTO) ke kaumaha nei i ka nalowale o kahi hoaaloha lōʻihi o ka Caribbean, Flora Gilford, i hala ma ʻOkakopa 9, 2019, ma Michigan i ka makahiki 97. ʻO Gilford kahi mākaʻikaʻi huakaʻi i lilo i pelekikena o ka CTO Northern California Chapter ma waena o ka hopena. 1980s a mid-1990s. E mālama ʻia ana ke kipa ma ʻOkakopa 21 mai ka hola 7 - 8 pm ma ka hale hoʻolewa o Gorsline Runciman ma Lansing, Michigan.
"Ua aloha nui ʻia ʻo Flora Gilford e kona mau hoa; aloha nui ʻo ia i ka Caribbean a mākaukau mau e manawaleʻa ke pono mākou i kahi lima kōkua, "wahi a Sylma Brown, ka luna o CTO-USA, Inc." Ua mālama ʻo ia i nā limahana o ka CTO a me nā ʻelele kūʻai ʻōpio no nā lālā o CTO ma ke ʻano he keiki nāna. ke nānā mau nei i ko lākou pono ma ke ʻano makuahine. A hiki i kēia lā, kaʻu mau keiki ponoʻī, nā moʻopuna a me nā keiki hanauna i ʻike iā ia i ka wā e ulu ana a kapa ʻia ʻo ia ʻo 'Grandma Flora' no ka mea ʻo ia kāna mea i haʻi aku ai iā lākou e kāhea iā ia, ”wahi a Brown.
He mea kōkua ʻo Gilford i ka hoʻokō ʻana i nā seminā ʻo Caribbean Sales, i mālama ʻia i kēlā me kēia makahiki i nā lālā lālā o ka CTO, i hāʻawi ʻia i nā lālā huakaʻi o nā CTO Chapters ma ʻō aku o ka US a me Kanada me ka manawa kūpono e komo ai i ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa kūikawā a me nā kahua aʻo ʻāina. Ua hele mau ʻo ia i nā hālāwai kūkā ʻo Caribbean Tourism (CTC) a ua manawaleʻa mau e kōkua iā CTO me ka mālama ʻana i nā ʻāpana huakaʻi i hele i nā ʻaha kūkā.
ʻO Gilford kekahi i alakaʻi i ka hōʻiliʻili kālā no ka Audrey Palmer Hawks Memorial Scholarship Fund, kahi mua o ka CTO Scholarship Foundation i kēia manawa.
"He wahine aloha, lokomaikaʻi a kupaianaha ʻo Flora e nalo ʻia e nā poʻe he nui i aloha iā ia," wahi a Brown.
