This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL/SAMPIER/ARANGO Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3918 Message Board Post: Thought this may help someone. I play the piano for the nursing home ministries in Roswell, NM. One of our residents passed away and since she was quite elderly I thought I would share this information as she was such a delightful person. PAULINE SAMPIER ARANGO Pauline Sampier Arango, 84, passed away on Jan. 18, 2002 at Mission Arch Care Center in Roswell, NM. Arrangements and cremation are by Sunset Gardens of Carlsbad. No services are planned. Arango was born in Hollis, Okla. on May 17, 1917, to Frank Russell and Effie Taylor Sampier. She was a graduate of Pea Ridge High School. She had been a model in New York City with Revlon, but spent much of her life in Panama and Washington, D. C., as the wife of the Panamanian Ambassador to the United States. She served on the Washington staff of Arkansas Congressman Bill Alexander. She also had worked for Cooper Communities in Bella Vista and for the State of Arkansas, in Little Rock. She was preceeded in death by her parents, brother J. Wesley Sampier of Rogers and sisters Bonnie, Kora and Ruth. Survivors include: one daughter, Paula Susan Arango of Roswell; one brother, Frank Sampier of Omaha, Neb; three nephews, John Sampier of Rogers, John Freshour of Albuquerque and Larry Sampier of Omaha; a great neice, Valerie Ledbetter Vaughn of Artesia; and a great nephew, Russell Ledbetter of The Woodlands, Texas.