Linda Carol Mccormick
Feb 13, 2015
Carol McCormick, 71 of Lake Wales, Florida passed away Friday, February 13, 2015 at Lake Wales Medical Center. She was born September 18, 1943 in Lake Wales, Florida to the late Robert and Bernice (Johns) Hall. She has been a lifelong resident of the area and was a teacher for the Polk County School Board teaching at Hillcrest Elementary...
Rosa Odessa Smith-Brunson
Feb 12, 2015
Rosa Odessa Smith-Brunson, affectionately called Rose or Belle, was born in Waycross, Ga on February 14, 1945 to the late Clifford Smith and Claudia Jones. By the time she was 22 years old, she had entered marital life to the late Lee Brunson, Sr. and had six kids, all one year apart. Rosa worked at Florida's Natural as an...
Pam Conibear
Feb 11, 2015
Pam “Nana” Conibear of Winter Haven passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at the Winter Haven Hospital. She was born August 25, 1955 in Fort Campbell, KY to the late Loran & Nadine Smith; and she came to the area as a teenager. She was a homemaker and a member of the Outreach Church International in Auburndale, where she...
Betty Lou Ammons
Feb 10, 2015
Betty Lou Ammons of Lake Wales passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at the Winter Haven Hospital. She was born September 9, 1933 in Lavinia, Tennessee to the late Julian and Elizabeth Hart Osborne and has been a resident of this area since high school moving here from Lavinia, Tennessee. She was a retired Vice President / Loan Processor...
William Sherman Howard
Feb 9, 2015
William S. “Bill” Howard, 89 of Lake Wales, Florida passed away Monday, February 9, 2015 at the Lake Wales Medical Center. He was born November 10, 1925 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to the late John and Stella Mae Howard. He was a retired Aircraft Mechanic for Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Bill enjoyed reading and western movies....
Wolfgang M. Juentgen
Feb 7, 2015
Wolfgang M. Juentgen, 78, of Babson Park, Florida passed away peacefully Saturday, February 7, 2015 at his residence. He was born September 8, 1936 in Berlin, Germany and has been a resident of the area since 2005 moving here from Germany. He was a retired Contractor. He liked tennis, golf, traveling and dancing. Wolfgang was a Pilot and enjoyed...
Winifred June Felt
Feb 7, 2015
June Felt, “Miss Frostproof”,89, of Babson Park, Florida passed away Saturday, February 7, 2015 at daughter’s residence. Heaven welcomes a musical angel. She was born May 7, 1925 in Tampa, Florida to the late John William and Nora June (Mullin) Truitt, a Frostproof pioneer family. She was a gifted pianist, who played only by ear. June was the Director...
Judy Hord
Feb 6, 2015
Judy Hord, 60 of Bartow, Florida passed away Friday, February 6, 2015 at Lake Wales Medical Center due to heart failure. She was born February 11, 1954 in Welch, West Virginia and has been a resident of the area for 6 years coming from Sarasota, Florida. She was a Floral Designer. She loved to fish,really enjoyed floral design and...
Judith Grace Myers
Feb 6, 2015
Judith G. Myers, 75 of Lake Wales passed away Friday, February 6, 2015 at the Lake Wales Medical Center. She was born January 16, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana to the late Norman and Jennie C. (Pressel) Brier and she has been a resident of the area since 1978 moving here from Indiana. She was a Real Estate Broker. Judith...
Joel Alan Sherman
Feb 6, 2015
Joel Alan “Cornbread” Sherman, 57, of Frostproof passed away, Friday, February 6, 2015 at the Lake Wales Medical Center. He was born June 9, 1957 in Vincennes, Indiana to the late Charles V. and Barbara D. (Farrell) Sherman and has been a resident of this area since June 2005 moving here form Port St. Lucie, Florida. He worked as...
Elsie June Ryan
Feb 5, 2015
Elsie June Ryan, age 91, of Babson Park, Florida passed away on Tuesday, February 5, 2015, at the Good Shephard Sommers Hospice facility in Sebring following a period of illness. Elsie Ryan was born on April 27, 1923 in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jesse Ira and Elsie Mae (Prentice) Felgar. She graduated the Christ Hospital School of Nursing,...
Teresa Thomas
Feb 2, 2015
Teresa Richards “Terry” Thomas, 61 Terry Thomas of Brandon Florida passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at Brandon Regional Medical Center. She was born on May 12, 1953 in Lake Wales, Florida and has been a resident of the area for 3 ½ years coming from Eustice, Florida. She was a homemaker and graduated Lake Wales High School in...
Mary Elizabeth Sutley
Feb 2, 2015
Mary Elizabeth Sutley, 52 Mary E. “Beth” Sutley, 52, of Frostproof, Florida passed away Monday, February 2, 2015 at Lake Wales Medical Center due to cancer. She was born July 28, 1962 in Lake Wales, Florida and has been a lifelong resident of the area. She was in shipping for Frostproof Growers Supply. She is survived by her parents...
Elvira Davila-Gallart
Feb 1, 2015
Elvira Davila-Gallart of Lake Wales passed away Sunday, February 1, 2015 at the Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale. She was born February 15, 1931 in Gurabo, Puerto Rico to the late Francisco and Maria Davila; and she came here from Puerto Rico in 1991. Elvira was preceded in death by her husband, Hector L. Gallart; and a brother, Oscar...
Mary Dickerson
Jan 31, 2015
Mary Madeline Dickerson of Winter Haven, formerly of Bloomington, IL, passed away surrounded by her family on Saturday, January 31, 2015. She was 85. She was born December 13, 1929 in Springfield, IL, and was the only child of Bess Bowers and her step-father, Robert Harris. She married Jimmie Otto Dickerson on November 10, 1950. They spent most of...
Louise Spanke Kihm
Jan 30, 2015
Louise Spanke Kihm, 90, passed away on Friday, January 30, 2015. Louise was born in Hartman, Arkansas and grew up in Clarksville, Arkansas. She attended St. Scholastica Academy in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and in 1942, moved to Little Rock, Arkansas and worked at the Maumelle Defense Plant. In 1945, she moved to Chicago, Illinois where she worked for Universal...
Ackley Gordon Carter
Jan 28, 2015
Ackley G. Carter, 86, of Lake Wales, Florida passed away Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at Savannah Court. He was born July 24, 1928 in Englewood, New Jersey to the late Leslie and Grace (Cox) Carter and has been a resident of the area since 1999 moving here from New Jersey. He began his career as a house wares buyer...
Robert Rhodes
Jan 24, 2015
Robert “Dusty” Rhodes, 58, of Lake Wales, passed away Saturday, January 24, 2015 in Lake Wales. He was born October 2, 1956 in Belle Glade, Florida to the late Robert Littleton and Freda Lee (Whitehead) Rhodes and has lived in Lake Wales most of his life. He worked for IMC as a Dragline Operator. He is preceded in death...
Richard Maffett
Jan 24, 2015
Richard L. “Dick” Maffett, 88, of Indian Lake Estates, Florida passed away Saturday, January 24, 2015 at Somers Hospice House in Sebring. He was born November 26, 1926 in Cambridge, Ohio to the late John Kenneth and Ada Margaret (Sarchet) Maffett and has been a resident of this area since 2004 moving here from Key west, Florida. He was...
Mary Jane Dillon
Jan 23, 2015
Mary Jane Lawrence Dillon, 84, of Frostproof, Florida passed away Saturday, January 23, 2015 at Winter Haven Hospital. She was born October 15, 1930 in Lenawee, Michigan to the late Clarence and Ruth Delano Hoag and has been a resident of the area since 1978 moving here from Adran, Michigan. She was a Homemaker and of the Protestant Faith....