OBITUARIES

The Reverend Doctor James Clayton Fletcher Rowan

The Reverend Doctor James Clayton Fletcher Rowan

Mar 7, 2016

The Reverend Doctor James Clayton Rowan United Methodist Minister The Reverend Doctor James Clayton Fletcher Rowan died Monday, March 7, 2016. He was born January 31, 1926 in Sycamore, Gadsden County, Florida. After graduating from high school in 1944, he served in WWII in the Navy in the Pacific as a Seaman First Class and then attended Florida State...

Margaret W. Huston

Margaret W. Huston

Mar 6, 2016

Margaret Ellen (Willis) Huston Margaret Huston entered a new life on March 6, 2016. She was 102 years old. The youngest of three daughters, Margaret was born to Frank A. Willis and Octavia Holcomb Willis on December 11, 1913, in Newnan, GA. She moved with her family at a young age to Jacksonville, FL. After graduating from high school,...

George Kennedy Miller

George Kennedy Miller

Mar 6, 2016

George Kennedy Miller, 88 Lakeland- George Kennedy Miller, 88, died on March 6, 2016 in Lakeland, FL. He was born in Bradenton, FL, May 6, 1927, the son of Letitia Burroughs Miller and James E. Miller. The family moved to Lakeland, where he grew up and then graduated from Lakeland High School, where he was the football letterman. After...

Betty Jean Thornhill

Betty Jean Thornhill

Mar 3, 2016

Betty Jean Thornhill, 83 Betty Jean Thornhill of Lakeland passed away Thursday, March 3, 2016. She was born June 18, 1932 to Cecil B. Pollock and Elsie Coker Pollock and was a lifelong Lakeland resident. Mrs. Thornhill was preceded in death by her parents and her husband of 47 years, Paul M. Thornhill. She is survived by her children,...

Frank Joseph Veicht

Frank Joseph Veicht

Mar 1, 2016

Frank Joseph Veicht, P.E. 85 Frank Joseph Veicht, of Lakeland, FL passed away on Tuesday March 1, 2016. He was born on August 5, 1930 in The Hague, Netherlands. He worked for Jacobs Engineering, Davy McKee, and a Senior Engineering Consultant at Florida Engineering and Design in Bartow, FL. He was a member of the Florida Board of Professional...

Henry C. Lewis

Henry C. Lewis

Mar 1, 2016

Henry Curtis Lewis, 87 Lakeland: Henry Curtis Lewis, 87, 12 year resident of Lakeland, Florida, passed away peacefully on March 1, 2016. He had been ill for over a year. Henry was born to Andrew and Alice Lewis on April 28, 1928 in Graceville, Florida. He was one of ten children. Army life was his choice and was sent...

Arnold Quenton Murphy

Arnold Quenton Murphy

Feb 25, 2016

Arnold Quenton Murphy, age 57, passed away on February 25th, 2016. Arnold was born on July 21, 1958, in Lakeland, FL, to James L. Murphy and Dorthy Niblack Murphy. Arnold was of Catholic faith, an Eagle Scout, and past Member of the National Phlebotomy Association. Arnold worked at Winter Haven Hospital for 15 years as a lab assistant before...

Charles Mitchell Lambert

Charles Mitchell Lambert

Feb 24, 2016

Charles Mitchell Lambert Charles Mitchell Lambert, 81, of Lakeland, Florida, passed away on February 24, 2016. Mitch was born on July 16, 1934, to William Landon Lambert and Ella (Mitchell) Lambert. He graduated from Central City High School in Illinois and served in the Army at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Afterwards, Mitch married Betty (Meek) Lambert in 1955, and fathered...

Andrew Eugene Johnson

Andrew Eugene Johnson

Feb 23, 2016

Pending...... Service: 03/01/2016 First Baptist Church at the Mall 1010 E. Memorial Blvd. Lakeland, FL 33801 First Baptist Church at the Mall Visitation: 03/10/2016 First Baptist Church at the Mall

Scott Donald Swonger

Scott Donald Swonger

Feb 23, 2016

Scott Swonger 53, of Lakeland Florida passed away Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at Lakeland Regional Health Center, surrounded by love ones. Scott was born on August 23, 1962, at Lackland Air Force base, Texas, to his parents Carl and Darlene Swonger. He moved with his family to Lakeland in 1974. Scott graduated from Kathleen High School in 1980. Scott...

Herbert Todd

Herbert Todd

Feb 21, 2016

Herbert Ridgely Todd Herbert Ridgely Todd of Lakeland, Florida, died on February 21, 2016. Todd was born in 1923, in Avon Park, Florida, to Mr. Edward Gorsuch Todd and Winifred Reck Todd. He was their second of four sons. He graduated from the Bolles School of Jacksonville and attended University of Cincinnati, where he was a member of Beta...

Nestor Ferrer Ramirez

Nestor Ferrer Ramirez

Feb 19, 2016

Nestor Ferrer, 94 Lakeland- Mr. Nestor Ferrer died on February 19, 2016 at Lakeland Regional Health. He was born June 25, 1921 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. He attended the Church of the Resurrection. Nestor was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Carmen. He is survived by his only daughter Wilma Ferrer, 3 grandchildren, Christina...

Paul B. Maasen

Paul B. Maasen

Feb 19, 2016

Wentzville, MO - Paul B. Maasen, a resident of Sun City Center, FL and Wentzville, MO died at his Wentzville home Friday, February 19, 2016. He was born September 3, 1946 in Kansas City, MO, son of the late Francis ""Frank"" B. and Beatrice (Taegel) Maasen. He is survived by his wife Mary Smyth-Maasen; daughter Kiri M. Maasen, St....

June Naomi Kiely

June Naomi Kiely

Feb 18, 2016

Lakeland " June Naomi Kiely passed away on February 18, 2016. She was 86. June was born in rural north Florida. She grew up in Lakeland, but spent most of her life living in various other parts of central Florida, as well in the mountains of north Georgia. She returned to Lakeland several years ago. For many years she...

Roger Dale Barfield

Roger Dale Barfield

Feb 16, 2016

Roger Dale Barfield, 66 Lakeland " Roger Dale Barfield passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2016, at Lakeland Regional Health. He was born on December 15, 1949, in Albany, GA. He is preceded in death by his father, George Barfield and brother, Ronnie Barfield. Roger is survived by one son, Jason Barfield (Yvette), one daughter Allison Skinner (James), former wife,...

Harold Hendren

Harold Hendren

Feb 15, 2016

Rev. Harold M. Hendren Lakeland - Rev. Harold M. Hendren from Richmond, Kentucky, died Monday, February 15th at home in Lakeland, Florida. He served both in the Kentucky and Florida Annual Conferences as a United Methodist Minister for 40 years. He is survived by his wife Nancy Hendren, his daughter Sandra Davis (Mark), his son Rev. Harold R. Hendren...

Miriam Donovan

Miriam Donovan

Feb 14, 2016

Miriam Edith Donovan Lakeland " Miriam Edith Donovan passed away peacefully on Valentine""s Day. She was born on May 4, 1921, in Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada. She moved to Lakeland in 1971. She is survived by her only son, Richard Charles Donovan, six grandchildren, David Donovan, Darlene Patrick, Daniel Donovan, Paul Donovan, Micah Donovan and Matthew Donovan, 11...

Tracy L. Carter Bassford

Tracy L. Carter Bassford

Feb 13, 2016

Tracy L. Carter Bassford Marriott Vacation Worldwide Lakeland: Tracy L. Carter Bassford, on February 23, 1964, a tiny 5lb 141/2 ounce baby decided to make her first and early appearance into a world that she very soon learned to love and believed with all of her little heart that everyone in this great big world loved her too. Very...