Emmanuel Guar

Emmanuel Kehkeh Guar was born May 28, 1962, unto the union of Isaac and Nancy Guar in Grand Bassa County, Liberia. He departed this life on Monday, June 13, 2005, at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland after a two year battle with leukemia. "E-Man" as he was affectionately called by everyone, received his early education from the Seventh-Day Adventist School in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County. In 1986, he enrolled at the Booker Washington Institute (BWI) where he majored in Agriculture Science and was an excellent student. Unfortunately, Emmanuel and many of his fellow classmates could not graduate because the Liberian War escalated in their senior year and everyone had to flee. Due to the ongoing war, E-man finally obtained his High School Diploma in 1995, from the Christian College, in Buchanan based on shear determination. Emmanuel was a very humble young man. He was hardworking, diligent, and very determining to succeed in life. He was loved and respected by everyone and his parents were especially proud of him. Emmanuel was first and foremost a true Christian and a humble child of our Lord Jesus Christ. In 1988, he was baptized in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the City of Kakata, Liberia. He served his Lord and the church with all his heart. Realizing the needs of our people and the suffering they are enduring, Emmanuel's ultimate goal was to become a medical missionary to go back to his homeland in Africa to make whatever contribution he could make to help alleviate the suffering. Life did not come easy for Emmanuel. He struggled for almost everything he ever accomplished and the Liberian Civil War did not help his situation much. When the war intensified in 1990, Emmanuel and the rest of his family had to flee the fighting and lived in the bushes for over two years. They remained on the run-making temporary homes wherever they could in Liberia and the Ivory Coast-until 1995 when they settled at the Refugee Camp in Ghana. After all the trials and tribulations of the war, the Guars were determined to resettle all their children to the United States. Mrs. Guar was the first to come in 1992 through her two daughters, Eutto and Hawah, who were already in the States. Together, they struggled to find means to bring the rest of the family. I don't need to tell you how difficult that was-to maintain a family in Africa while struggling to process papers with the INS, here-especially when you don't have papers yourself. Through the grace of God, Emmanuel's father and the first group of three children left Ghana for the United States in January, 1999. In April, 1999, documents to bring Emmanuel to the U.S. were prepared and sent to INS. By September 2001, Emmanuel and the rest of the children who remained in Ghana entered the United States. Upon his arrival in the U.S., Emmanuel quickly maneuvered to position himself for success. With much needed help, he enrolled and completed the CNA program in a few months and began to work as a nursing assistant. He then enrolled at the Prince George's Community College doing prerequisite courses to pursue his long standing desire to become a Medical Missionary. Unfortunately, Emmanuel was diagnosed with leukemia in the fall of 2003, his first semester at the college. Most people I know would have folded and given up on life at that point, but Emmanuel did not. Until he gave his last breath, E-man was still planning and fighting, and planning and fighting, and fighting and fighting ....... He leaves to mourn: one son, Alex Gartee; his parents, Isaac and Nancy Guar; his sisters, Esther, Eutto, Hawah, Gianje, Yassah, and Wedeh; his brothers, Trokon, Jr., Amos, Barchue, Dehcontee, and Samuel; sister-in-law, Marie; three brothers-in-law, Francis, Sr., Henry, Roosevelt, and Elijah; four nieces, Sabah, Korpo, Naomi, Viojah, Sanaa, Nancy, and Maranda; grandniece, Mahagony; eight nephews, Fidel, Francis, Jr., Isaac Trokon III, Daniel Trokon, Emmanuel, Will, Benjamin, Amos, Jr., and Brandon; and a host of other relatives and friends in the United States and Liberia, but special mention goes to Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Smith of Baltimore, who were more than friends to Emmanuel.

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Emmanuel Guar

May 28, 1962 - June 13, 2005