OBITUARIES

Jan 16, 2021

In Loving Memory of Marcello Romano April 13, 1959 – January 16, 2021 (Though your smile is gone forever, and your hand I cannot touch, I still have many memories of the one I love so much. Your memory is my keepsake with which I will never part. God has you in his keeping. I have you in my...

Jan 14, 2021

Jan 12, 2021

On January 12, 2021, Mrs. Mary Headrick Wheeless died at Florida Presbyterian Homes of natural causes. Mary was born in Portland, Oregon, March 26, 1917, to Letha and Joe Headrick. She grew up and was educated in Tennessee. She earned degrees in English and Social Studies with a minor in Education from Tusculum College and did additional graduate studies...

Jan 11, 2021

Jan 9, 2021

The Rev. Dr. James David Bigley, Sr. died peacefully on January 9, 2021 of causes unrelated to COVID 19. Born on October 10, 1932 in New Castle, PA, he was one of nine children of I. E. and Ethel Mae Collins Bigley. A graduate of New Castle High School in 1950, he continued his education at Geneva College, Beaver...

Jan 8, 2021

Shirley Landreth Jackson Age 78 Lakeland, FL Lakeland – Mrs. Shirley Jackson was lovingly welcomed into her heavenly home on Friday, January 8, 2021. She passed peacefully with her dedicated and loving husband at her side at her home in Lakeland, Florida after valiantly battling cancer for a number of years. Shirley was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on...

Jan 6, 2021

LAKELAND - Betty Harrison joined her husband in Heaven on January 6, 2021. She was born in Greensboro, NC on November 28, 1932 to Hubert and Stella Cockman. Betty and one of her best friends moved to Fort Myers, FL where she met her husband, Huie Harrison, and they married on July 5, 1957. They were married 60 years...

Jan 3, 2021

Francisca “Paquita” Valdes Romero, age 95, of Tampa, formerly a resident of Lakeland, Florida, passed into eternal life on January 3, 2021, at Season’s Hospice and Palliative Care, at St. Joseph’s Memorial Hospital, Tampa, Florida. Born on January 24, 1925, in Havana, Cuba, to the late Luis Valdes and Evarista C. Del Pozo, she was a homemaker who also...

Jan 3, 2021

Virginia Royall Bryan, age 103, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, January 3, 2021. She was born on November 7, 1917 in Arcadia, FL to Ivey G. and Annie P. Royall, was raised in Bowling Green, FL but she was a long-time resident of Lakeland and a graduate of Florida Southern College. She worked as a...

Jan 3, 2021

Jan 2, 2021

LAKELAND - Mary Jo Alderman Hollingsworth, age 64, passed away on January 2, 2021, in Lakeland, Florida, after a short illness. Mary Jo was born on August 2, 1956, in Lakeland, Florida. Her parents were Roland Lane Alderman and Mary Louise Hefferan Alderman. Mary Jo was baptized, made her first communion and was confirmed at St. Joseph's Catholic Church...

Jan 2, 2021

Lakeland - John Bickel Jr., 90 passed away on January 2, 2021. John was born in St. Louis, MO and lived in Green Cove Springs, FL prior to moving to Lakeland to be near his family. John is survived by his wife, Ruth of 68 years, Daughters, Deborah (Ken) Daniels of St. Louis, MO, Patricia (Robert) Bazley of Lakeland,...

Dec 31, 2020

Dec 31, 2020

Delilah R. Stevens, 88, of Lakeland, FL went home to be with Jesus on December 31, 2020.

Dec 31, 2020

Dec 30, 2020

Dec 26, 2020

LARRY W. TINSLEY, 74 LAKELAND - Larry W. Tinsley, 74 passed away on Saturday December 26th, 2020 at his home in Lakeland, FL. He was born in PeeWee Valley, Kentucky to Harold and Gladys Tinsley who preceded him in death. Larry was raised in rural Kentucky where he was instilled with a strong work ethic that he carried with...

Dec 25, 2020

Jackie McDougald Fortner was born March 2, 1928 in High Springs, Florida. She was the daughter of Quitman (Daddy Mac) and Madeline Lewis McDougald. Jackie graduated from the New York Institute of Dietetics. She was a dietitian at the University of Florida infirmary and met her husband, Ray, who was in his second year of law school. They were...

Dec 22, 2020

Dec 20, 2020

Gladys “Gigi” Ryland Kolenda was welcomed home by Jesus Christ her Lord and Savior peacefully during the night early on Sunday, December 20, 2020, surrendering her mortal shell to the long-term effects of a stroke suffered several years ago. Born on April 12, 1938 in Brooklyn, NY to Omar and Therese Ryersen, she moved to Bartow, Florida in 1997....