J’adresse mes condoléances les plus sincères à et émues à Margaret Mitchell Armand et sa famille.
Reçu de mon amie Margaret Mitchell Armand
Dear Friends,
This e-mail is to announce the death of my father on August 18, 2009.
My father, Mr François William Mitchell passed on during the night with all the family members by his side. He transformed into the spirit world with the universal love we all share. He was 85 years old. He emigrated in the U.S. from Haiti in 1967 where he worked all his life. My mother Anne-Marie is with me and suffered the illness of Alzheimer.
My father’s spirit is strong. A Vodouist, he also studied be a
part of the Rosicrucian Order. He was also a natural healer.
Born in Haiti in 1924, He is the descendent of long line of emigrants to Haiti. His great grandmother was an enslaved african woman taken from the Nago-Oyo Empire at that time known as Dahomey today then Nigeria by the bank of the river of Ogou Badagris. Her name is unknown because the colonizers erased the name of those people they were enslaving. Our family DNA took us to the area.
His maternal grandfather was a Corsican from Adjacio (Jean Vesperini) that came to Haiti during the second world war in Europe to get riches and his paternal grandfather Francis W. Mitchell was an Irish American nominated as a Consular agent to Haiti in the 1880’s. The family also found American Indian lineage as well lineage from India. My father’ spirit of love and tolerance for all humans transcended race, color, social class, religion and economic class. He believed of the equality of the human race. He was a role model for all of us and proved that love and tolerance has a great healing power.
We all miss him very much in person, but in Vodou we know that the spirit lives on beyond the carcass of the body.
I appreciate your understanding in that ti me of celebration of his life.
Thank you for your support during that time.
Margaret
