OBITUARIES
Dan Erik Jensen
Aug 29, 2018
Plant City – Dan Erik Jensen (80) passed away Wednesday, August 29th, after living courageously over the past 3 years. He was preceded in death by his beloved Judy Y. Jensen the mother of his 4 children, his parents, Elmer and Margrethe Jensen and his brother, Gorm. He is survived by Judy N Jensen (wife), his siblings Maikki, Uffe,...
Charles "Charlie" Arnold Gordy
Aug 26, 2018
Charles “Charlie” A. Gordy Lakeland: Charles “Charlie” A. Gordy, of Lakeland, died on August 26, 2018. He was born on February 8, 1936 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Charlie was a sales representative and had worked in sales all his life. He was an avid sports fan but most of all loved Lakeland High School “Dreadnaught” football and the Miami...
William Young Harrell
Aug 26, 2018
William Y. Harrell Lakeland – William Y. Harrell passed away August 26, 2018 at the age of 88. Bill was born in Anderson, South Carolina on August 25, 1930, and was raised in Suwanee, Levy, Columbia and Hamilton counties in North Florida. He graduated from Hamilton County High School in Jasper, Florida. He proudly served our country in the...
Clay David Bradley
Aug 23, 2018
Clay David Bradley Lakeland - Clay David Bradley, 60, of Lakeland, went to be with our Lord on August 23, 2018. Clay was born in Lakeland and spent most of his life there. He loved his family and had many fond childhood memories spending time with his parents, brother, cousins and many friends. He loved snook fishing at Anna...
Velmer L. Blankenship
Aug 21, 2018
Lakeland - Velmer Blankenship died 8/21/18. He is survived by Lee Blankenship, Jr, Wanda Percy, Lisa Jacob, Daphne Bleam, 5 sisters, 1 brother, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Karen Blankenship, and daughter Norma Jean Parr.
Lt. Col. Samuel Pressly Bowles, Jr.
Aug 19, 2018
Lt. Col. Samuel Pressly Bowles, Jr., 90, died on August 19 of 2018. He was born on March 19, 1928 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a resident of Lakeland, FL since 1966 and Little Gasparilla Island from 1990 until 2016. He was a veteran of 34 years of active and reserve service in the Army. He was a graduate...
Jimmy Aaron Colvin
Aug 17, 2018
Jimmy Aaron Colvin III Dunlap, Tennessee – Jimmy Aaron Colvin III passed away on August 17, 2018. He was born on November 12, 1980 in Eustis, Florida. His parents were Patricia Ann Colvin and Jimmy Aaron Colvin II. He lived in Florida for most of his life before he moved to Tennessee. He was a very good guitar player....
Ross Stuart Franklin
Aug 15, 2018
Ross Stuart Franklin, 51 died August 15, 2018 in a local hospital after a sudden illness. He was born in Lakeland, FL, on April 21, 1967 and was a lifelong resident of Lakeland. Ross was the son of Benjamin and MaryAnn Franklin. He earned his BS and MS in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida in...
Ruth Biles Jenkins
Aug 15, 2018
Lakeland - Ruth Biles Jenkins of Lakeland, FL, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. She was born on July 17, 1925 in Milledgeville, GA, to the late Aubia Jefferson Biles and Inez Cooley Biles. She spent her youth in Decatur, GA, where she went to school with and married the love of her life, Gene...
Ann Edwards Carter
Aug 15, 2018
Ann Edwards Carter was born on August 8, 1926; on August 15, 2018, she died in her home on Cambridge Avenue in Lakeland, Fla., one week after a gathering for her 92nd birthday. She was born in Tampa, Fla., to Katharine Tipton Edwards and LaMarcus Colquitt Edwards, who was a leading pioneer in the Florida citrus industry and co-founder...
Walter Eugene Faircloth, Sr.
Aug 15, 2018
Walter E. Faircloth, Sr. 89 Telephone Installer Lakeland- Walter E. Faircloth, Sr. died on August 15, 2018 at Lakeland Regional Health. He was born April 28, 1929 in Thomasville, GA. He was Baptist faith. Mr. Walter Faircloth served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict, and was stationed in Germany. He was predeceased by his parents, his...
Marjory Ward Sheppard
Aug 14, 2018
Marjory “Marge” Ward Sheppard, 80 Lakeland- Marjory “Marge” Ward Sheppard passed away Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at Lakeland Hospice House in Lakeland, FL. She was born in Auburn, NY on September 17, 1937 and graduated from Union Springs Central School in 1955. Her family moved to Lakeland, FL in 1957. She married Daniel Edson Dewell from Tampa, FL in...
Dorothy Elizabeth Kennedy Richardson
Aug 12, 2018
Dorothy “Dot” Elizabeth Richardson, aged 85, passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 12, 2018, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law. Both daughters, Judy and Debi, were at her side as she departed this world to be in the presence of her Lord and Savior, fully restored and free from...
Edward Clarence Stewart
Aug 11, 2018
Edward Clarence Stewart, age 85, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 11, 2018. Edward was born on August 1, 1933 to Roxie Waldron in Brantley County, Georgia. He graduated from Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, Florida, class of 1952. Mr. Stewart retired from the United States Army after serving our country for twenty years. His...
Weymon Preston Snuggs, Jr.,
Aug 10, 2018
Weymon Preston Snuggs Jr. Lakeland – Weymon Preston Snuggs, Jr., passed away Friday, August 10, 2018, at Lakeland Regional Health. He was born on December 29, 1927, in Birmingham, Alabama to Weymon Preston Snuggs and Miriam Milner Snuggs. He was a graduate of the University of Alabama and received his master’s degree from Samford University. He also attended additional...
Rhonda Darlene Blevins
Aug 6, 2018
Winter Haven- Rhonda Darlene Blevins, 74, passed away August 6, 2018, in Winter Haven, Florida. Darlene came to the Polk County area in 1975 from Lexington, Kentucky. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She was a member of the Ladies Oriental Shrine for 25 years and was active as a volunteer for the Lakeland Regional Medical...
Lawrence Farrel Meyer
Aug 6, 2018
Lawrence F. Meyer, 81, passed away on Monday, August 6th, 2018, in Winter Haven, Fl. Born on April 9th, 1937, in Frostproof, Fl to the late Lionel F. Meyer and Lois Douglas Meyer, he was a retired construction worker specializing in stucco and plastering in Highlands and Collier Counties. He loved golf, where he succeeded in making two holes...
Cicely Laws Anderson
Aug 3, 2018
Cicely Anne Laws Anderson April 30, 1924 to August 3, 2018 Cicely Anne Laws Anderson passed away Friday, August 3, 2018, in Tampa, Florida. Cis was born in North Wilkesboro, NC, on April 30, 1924 to the late Shafter Robert and Addie Humphries Laws. She was also preceded in death by her brother, S. Robert Laws, Jr.; her husband,...
Katherine Frost Bunch
Aug 2, 2018
Katherine Frost Bunch, 103, passed away peacefully on August 2, 2018, in her home surrounded by family, just eleven days after attending a family reunion in Flat Rock, NC. Katherine was born October 2, 1914 to Ernest Henry and Annie-Laurie Holton Frost in Mocksville, NC. In 1933, while at Davis Hospital Nursing School to become a registered nurse, she...
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