Benjamin Howard Chambers
Jul 12, 2012
Howard Chambers, 85, died Saturday, February 4, 2012 peacefully at home surrounded by his family.Originally from Western North Carolina, he moved to Miami in 1952 where he married and raised his family. He moved to Gainesville in 2006.A Navy flyer in WWII aboard a Coronado seaplane, he transported wounded from Saipan in the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands.After the war...
Opal Rountree Brown
Jul 12, 2012
Opal Matilda Rountree Brown, 88, of Hawthorne, went to be with her Lord on Friday, Feb 3, 2012. Opal was born May 26, 1923 in Hawthorne, FL to Thomas Columbus and Hester Elizabeth Greene Rountree.She was a lifetime member of Orange Heights Baptist Church and was a truly devoted Christian woman. Mrs. Brown loved cooking and taking care of her...
Frank Clarence Moylan
Jul 12, 2012
Frank Clarence Moylan, age 80, died peacefully, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at his residence, under Hospice care, with his wife of 60 years by his side. Frank and Gertrud were married December 29, 1953.Frank and Gertrud moved to Gainesville 40 years ago.He was Retired from the U.S. Air Force after 23 years of service, and then worked as a Police...
Constance Kate Fitzgerald
Jul 12, 2012
Connie Fitzgerald, of Gainesville, died on Sunday, March 11th at home, surrounded by those she loved, most especially her family.Connie was born in West Plains, Missouri. A graduate of Oberlin College, she attended Washington University Medical School where she was one of only four women in her graduating class. A pioneer in vitreo-retinal surgery, she practiced for many years in...
Nannie Kate Oglesby
Jul 12, 2012
Nan Oglesby, 92, died peacefully at her village lakehouse residence on Thursday, March 15, 2012 with her daughter, Paula and granddaughter, Paulette, by her side.Nan was born in 1920 in Perry, FL to Howard and Bonnie Maples Culpepper.She moved to the Gainesville area in 2008 from Jacksonville, FL. She was of the Baptist faith and was a devoted homemaker. She...
John George Caranasos
Jul 12, 2012
John G. Caranasos died on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the age of 34 in Gainesville, FL. He was the son of George and Constance Caranasos. A native of Gainesville, he graduated from Gainesville High School and while there was a member of the Naval ROTC. He took great pride in being an Eagle Scout and having worked with the...
Francis P. Ward
Jul 12, 2012
Frank P. Ward, 67, of Gainesville, passed away February 11, 2012. Frank was born in Philadelphia, PA and graduated from the University of Maryland. After several moves with Montgomery Ward, Frank joined the IRS and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. In 1986, again with the IRS, Frank moved to Gainesville as the Agent in Charge for both Gainesville and Ocala offices....
S. John Folks,
Jul 12, 2012
S. John Folks, Jr. ascended to the Glory, Love and Peace of our Lord's House on February 7, 2012.John was born in Montebrook, FL, graduated form Williston High School, the University of Florida and served his country with distinction in WWII and Korean.His tenacity and overwhelming love for Laura Mae Downing was rewarded by their marriage on March 9, 1947....
Stephen Owen Ryan
Jul 12, 2012
Dr. Stephen Owen Ryan, 76, of Gainesville, Florida, passed away peacefully after a brief illness, surrounded by his loving family on February 18, 2012.Dr. Ryan was born on April 5, 1935 to Grace V. Hock and Delbert O. Ryan of Woodstock, IL. He graduated from Woodstock High School and then served in the U.S. Army in Korea during the Korean...
Janice Marie Mattingly
Jul 12, 2012
Janice Marie Mattingly, 63, of Gainesville, passed away January 4, 2012 at North Florida Regional Medical Center. Janice was born in Ashland, Wisconsin, graduated from Ashland High School in 1966 and then joined the U.S. Marines. Janice was a kind and loving person who will be missed by her family and friends. She was an animal lover.She is preceded in...
Harold H. Heinrich
Jul 12, 2012
Harold H. Heinrich, 80, of Alachua, FL died peacefully in his home on 12/12/11 with his wife Sandy at his bedside. The Heinrichs have lived in the Gainesville area since 1988. Harold retired from Classification at the Alachua County Jail in 2003.He was born 6/4/1931 in Vinland Kansas, the youngest of five children, to Carl and Alma (Hoskinson) Heinrich. A...
Charles Dean Covey
Jul 12, 2012
Dr. Charles Dean Covey, 89, of Gainesville, passed away January 25, 2012 at Shands Hospital. Dr. Covey was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio and moved to Florida in 1953 from Norfolk, VA. He served in WWII in the Pacific and retired CPO from the U.S. Navy. He received his Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree with high honors form U of...
Lawrence Douglas Spencer
Jul 12, 2012
Lawrence "Doug" Spencer, 54, of LaCrosse, FL passed away on March 12, 2012. He was the son of Betty Schaupp and the late Lawrence Spencer.He is survived by his devoted wife of 25 years, Kimberely Spencer; 3 sons, Kinney Standridge and wife, Laura Standridge, Kyle Cooper and Jesse Spencer; daughter, Sarah Williams; his mother, Betty Schaupp; a sister, Pennie Rodriguez...
Edgar Alexander Marshall
Jul 12, 2012
Edgar "Whitey" Alexander Marshall, 82, of Gainesville, passed away February 24, 2012 in Palm Coast surrounded by family. Edgar was born in Clearwater, FL and has been a lifelong resident of Gainesville.He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, retired from Southern Bell and a member of the Gainesville Hunting Club.Edgar is preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Marshall...
Wanda Ellen Pons
Jul 12, 2012
Wanda Ellen Pons passed away, peacefully, on March 14 at ET York Haven Hospice, after a long illness.Wanda was a loving Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter, Grandmother and Great-grandmother. She is survived by her husband of 34 years, Lang Pons, Gainesville; her mother, Ruby Churchill and brother Neil Brown, both who reside in Colchester, Vermont; her daughters, Lisa Bell (Tony), Orange...
Sammie Killgore Burden
Jul 12, 2012
Sammie Killgore Burden, 85, of Gainesville passed away December 3, 2011 at home. She was born in Highland Home, Alabama on March 17, 1926 toRuth and Phonso Killgore. She was a graduate of Peabody College which later became affiliated with Vanderbilt University and is now known as the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. She was...
Jack Jones Burch
Jul 12, 2012
Jack Jones Burch, 92, of Gainesville, passed away February 12, 2012 at E.T. York Hospice Care Center. Jack was born in Jacksonville, Florida and with frequent moves as a child lived in Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta Georgia, Tampa, Chattanooga, Tennessee and finally to Tallahassee where he graduated from high school in 1936 at the age of 16. He left home after...
John J. Fotinopoulos
Jul 12, 2012
John J. Fotinopoulos was born in Greece on August 29, 1929. He moved to Canada as a young man, before settling in Gainesville, Florida, in 1973. John was preceded in death by his parents, Panayiotis and Asimina Fotinopoulos, four brothers and a sister. He is survived by his sister Helen Scourtis, several nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, as well...
Emmett Edward Cellon,
Jul 12, 2012
Emmett Edward Cellon II, 76, of Gainesville, FL passed away January 30, 2012 at his home in Turkey Creek Forest. Ed was born in Gainesville on March 19, 1935 to Emmett Edward Cellon and Elsie Williams Cellon. He was a loyal friend, devoted husband, and loving father.Ed was a graduate of Gainesville High School and the University of Florida with...
Virginia Vasilow Keppel
Jul 12, 2012
Virginia Vasilow Keppel died Dec. 24, 2011, in Gainesville, Fla.Born in Washington, D.C., she grew up in Catskill, N.Y., and Ridgewood, N.J., where she graduated from Mt. Carmel School and Ridgewood High School. She received a degree from the State Teacher's College in Newark, N.J., and taught kindergarten for six years in Plainfield, N.J., where she met her future husband,...