Obituaries

Daniel P. Smith

Daniel P. Smith

Jan 2, 2012

FROSTPROOF - Daniel Paul Smith, 20, passed away Jan. 2, 2012 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center due to injuries sustained in an accident. Daniel was born Dec. 6, 1991 in Pensacola, FL and moved to Frostproof from Pensacola in 2010. He worked as a cashier for Walmart in Sebring and was of the Baptist faith and an avid bicyclist. Daniel...

Sherry Moody Fields

Sherry Moody Fields

Dec 24, 2011

LUTZ - Mrs. Carmen Sherry Moody Fields, 75, passed away Dec. 24, 2011 in Sun City. Mrs. Fields was the daughter of Hermon Eric Moody and Floy Collins Moody. She was born Jan. 30, 1936 in Mulberry, FL and was a longtime resident of Hillsborough County after returning to Florida from California. She was an Executive Secretary for the Bank...

Fred H. Maits

Fred H. Maits

Dec 23, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mr. Fred Howard Maits, 62, passed away Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 in Dixon, Missouri. Mr. Maits was born May 19, 1949 in Winter Haven, FL, and had recently moved to Dixon, Missouri from Fort Meade in June after his retirement from Securitas, where he worked as a Security Guard at their Fort Meade location on Peeples Road....

Ed Walkup

Ed Walkup

Dec 10, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mr. Edward Louis Walkup, 83, passed away Dec. 10, 2011 on board the cruise ship MS Maasdam, while vacationing with his wife. Mr. Walkup was born April 13, 1928 in Waukegan, IL and moved to Fort Meade from Memphis, TN in 1998. He was retired corporate director of purchasing for Holiday Inn, a WW II United States...

Patricia A. Swartz

Patricia A. Swartz

Dec 7, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mrs. Patricia Ann Swartz, 79, passed away Wed., December 7, 2011 at Bartow Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Swartz was born in Bellevue, Ohio on July 27, 1932 and moved to Fort Meade from Bellevue in 1999. She was a factory worker for General Motors for over 35 years. Mrs. Swartz is survived by her daughter, Lea Ann...

Clyde "Bud" Wyser, Jr.

Clyde "Bud" Wyser, Jr.

Nov 27, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mr. Clyde "Bud" Gillie Wyser, Jr., 72, passed away Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center of heart failure. Mr. Wyser was born June 13, 1939 in Bowling Green, FL and was a lifelong resident of Fort Meade. He retired after 47 years working as a mechanic for Swift & Co., Estech, Agrico and IMC...

Winifred Pazzanese

Winifred Pazzanese

Nov 22, 2011

EAST KINGSTON - Mrs. Winifred May Chapman Pazzanese, 89, passed away Nov. 22, 2011 in Fort Meade, FL after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Pazzanese was born in Wesley, Maine on September 13, 1922 and was the former owner and founder of the Hemlock Haven Mobile Home Park in Hampton, NH. She also owned a day care center, and had great...

Marie W. Williams

Marie W. Williams

Nov 14, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mrs. Marie W. Williams, 80, passed away Monday, November 14, 2011 at Bartow Regional Medical Center of heart failure. Mrs. Williams was born on May 21, 1931 in Sizerock, Kentucky, and moved to Fort Meade from Cincinnati, Ohio in 1985. She was a 4th grade school teacher in Mt. Coronet, Ohio for 31 years, and a member...

Leslie Wilson

Leslie Wilson

Nov 11, 2011

FORT MEADE - Leslie JoAnn Pate Wilson, 44, passed away Fri., Nov. 11, 2011 at her residence. Leslie was born on Feb. 16, 1967 in Ocala, FL and moved to Fort Meade from Mulberry in 2008. She was a home health caregiver and of the Baptist faith. Leslie was preceded in death by her daughter, Charlee Nikol Hutson. She is...

Zenaido Hernandez

Zenaido Hernandez

Nov 11, 2011

LAKELAND - Zenaido Hernandez , 10, passed away Nov. 11, 2011 in Lakeland. Zenaido was born in Tepoxtian, Mexico and was a student at R. Bruce Wagner Elementary in Lakeland. His survived by his father and mother, Zanaido and Petra Hernandez, Lakeland, FL; brothers, miguel a. Hernandez and Moises Hernandez, both of Lakeland, FL; sisters, Rocio Hernandez, Angelica Hernandez, Olga...

Tommy Young

Tommy Young

Nov 4, 2011

FORT MEADE - Amos Thomas (Tommy) Young, 92, passed away Fri., Nov. 4, 2011 at the Rohr Home in Bartow of heart failure. Mr. Young was born to Charles J. and Roxie Tye Young on April 23, 1919 in Bartow, FL and moved to Fort Meade from Bartow in 1948. He worked for IMC Phosphate for 30 years as a...

June Black

June Black

Oct 17, 2011

Edna June Peters Black, 91, was born to the late Carson and Claudia Brown Peters on March 4, 1920 in Medulla, Florida and died peacefully on October 17, 2011 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center due to respiratory failure. A devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend, June practiced nursing at the former Polk General Hospital assisting in the miracle of life...

Vera G. Funk

Vera G. Funk

Oct 12, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mrs. Vera Genevee Funk, 91, passed away Tues., Oct. 12, 2011 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Funk was born on Dec. 17, 1919 in Arnoldsburg, West Virginia and moved to Fort Meade from Akron, Ohio in 1990. She was a factory worker for Gooyear Tire & Rubber for 35 years, a member of the First Assembly...

Robert E. Williams

Robert E. Williams

Oct 7, 2011

CHICAGO, IL - Mr. Robert Eloy Williams, 55, passed away Fri., Oct. 7, 2011 in Chicago. Mr. Williams was born in Richmond, Kentucky on Sept. 8, 1956 and moved to Chicago from Cincinnati, OH in 1980. He was an Administrative Assistant for the U.S. Circuit Court in Chicago, and attended the United Methodist Church in Chicago. Mr. Williams is survived...

Pauline Moon Hughes

Pauline Moon Hughes

Oct 7, 2011

JACKSONVILLE, FL - Mrs. Pauline Moon Hughes, 79, passed away Fri., Oct. 7, 2011 at Community Hospice in Jacksonville, FL. Mrs. Hughes was born in Wauchula, FL on March 7, 1932 and moved to Jacksonville from Avon Park, FL in 2003. She was a home healthcare giver and a homemaker. Mrs. Hughes was a member of the Lake Wales Seventh...

Danny P. Smith

Danny P. Smith

Aug 30, 2011

SARASOTA - Mr. Danny Paul Smith passed away Tues., Aug. 30, 2011 at his home in Sarasota of heart failure. Danny was born in Monongahela, PA and moved to Sarasota from Panama City Beach, FL in July, 2011. He was the Owner & Operator of Butterface Pizza in Panama City Beach, FL, a member of the First Church of God,...

Christine S. Roberts

Christine S. Roberts

Aug 29, 2011

Mrs. Christine Sellers Roberts went home to be with her Lord on August 29, 2011 after having heart failure. Born November 27, 1921, in Knoxville, TN, she was a resident of Fort Meade, FL. since 1949. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Sellers and Betty Summey Sellers Long, her beloved husband of 56 years, Raymond Elzie (Buddy)...

Edith Jordan

Edith Jordan

Aug 3, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mrs. Edith Howard Jordan, 90, passed away Wednesday, August 3, 2011 in Sebring, FL of heart failure. Mrs. Jordan was born November 9, 1920 in Bowling Green, FL where she lived as a young girl, attending school and graduating from Hardee County High School in 1939. Mrs. Jordan moved from Bowling Green to Fort Meade in 1956...

James B. Baker

James B. Baker

Jul 19, 2011

LAKELAND - Mr. James Robert Baker, 77, passed away July 19, 2011 at Tampa General Hospital. Mr. Baker was born in Allegheny, New York on January 16, 1934 and moved to Lakeland from Allegeny in 1986. He was an auto body repairman along with being a general mechanic, and he attended the Living Hope Community Church, Lakeland. Mr. Baker is...

Sofia Rodriguez

Sofia Rodriguez

Jul 6, 2011

FORT MEADE - Mrs. Sofia Rodriguez, 57, passed away July 6, 2011 at home. Born on September 1, 1953 in Cuidad Mante, Talmalipas, Mexico, she moved to Fort Meade in 1993 from Mexico. She was a homemaker and member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Chuch. Mrs. Rodriguez is survived by her husband, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Fort Meade, sons, Martin Rodriguez,...

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