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All | Tributes

    In Memoriam |
  • August 27, 2020
Paul Edward Welch

Paul Edward Welch, age 81, of Sarasota, Florida passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • August 27, 2020
Philip Lynn Schneider

Philip Lynn Schneider passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • August 21, 2020
Joan Hannah Peterson

Joan Hannah Peterson, 87, of Sarasota, Florida, passed away peacefully on Aug. 16, 2020.

  • Sarasota
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    In Memoriam |
  • August 11, 2020
Harriet Bernbaum nee Harrison

Harriet Bernbaum nee Harrison, age 93, passed peacefully at home on August 7, 2020 surrounded by family.

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    In Memoriam |
  • August 4, 2020
Thomas Allan Dearden

Thomas Allan Dearden (Tad) 63 died at the Care Dimensions Hospice House in Lincoln Massachusetts on Wednesday July 22, 2020 after a long illness.

  • Sarasota
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    In Memoriam |
  • July 30, 2020
Harold A. Engelke Sr.

Harold A. Engelke Sr., age 91, passed away in Sarasota, Florida on Sunday, July 19, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • July 24, 2020
Richard S. Neufeld

Richard S. Neufeld, 94, formerly of Illinois, Longboat Key, Sarasota, and then Bradenton, passed away on July 20, 2020.

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    In Memoriam |
  • July 16, 2020
William J. Rigby

William J. Rigby, age 91, a resident of Naperville, IL and Longboat Key, FL, passed away on Saturday, July 11, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • July 13, 2020
Carol Winkel

Carol Winkel passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at home on July 4, 2020. She was 94 years young.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • July 9, 2020
Gary Drew

With saddened hearts we announce the passing of our wonderful father and husband, Gary Drew, 81, who passed away on his 58th wedding anniversary on June 30, 2020 in Sarasota, FL.

  • Longboat Key
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    A time to celebrate |
  • June 25, 2020
Tully & Bonnie

The Fourth of July pet costume parade is cancelled but Tully the Irish setter, owned by Eileen Kamerick and Vic Heckler, and Bonnie the Westie, owned by Barbara Kuzmich, all of Bay Isles, are celebrating anyway.

  • Longboat Key
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    In Memoriam |
  • June 23, 2020
Edward N. Schaye

Edward N. Schaye of Longboat Key, FL, husband of Harriet B. Schaye of blessed memory, passed away peacefully on June 20, 2020 just shy of his 91st birthday.

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    In Memoriam |
  • June 23, 2020
Barbara French “Bobi” Sanderson

Barbara French “Bobi” Sanderson was born in Ottawa, Illinois on July 24, 1923, and died peacefully at home in Sarasota, Florida on June 17, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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  • June 22, 2020
Gentle giant Jack Peffley dies at 72

The man was known for his kindness, readiness to help, and his loud pants.

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  • June 19, 2020
Sidney Jenkins Wright

Colonel (USAF retired) Sid “Playboy” Wright, has “Flown West”, on June 4, 2020, to rejoin his many fighter pilot brothers at God’s Golden Airfield.

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