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    In Memoriam |
  • May 19, 2020
Jonathan Brinton Detwiler

Jonathan Brinton Detwiler, 88, passed away May 11, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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  • May 14, 2020
Michael L. Gurchiek

Michael L. Gurchiek, 82, died peacefully in his sleep on Friday, May 8, at his home on Longboat Key, Fla.

  • Longboat Key
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  • April 28, 2020
Julia Goldman

Longboat Key, Florida – It is with great sadness that the family of Julia Goldman announces her passing on April 25, 2020, at the age of 90 years.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 30, 2020
Robert “Fred” Ruth Jr.

Robert “Fred” Ruth Jr., age 95, of Sarasota, Florida passed away on March 26, 2020.

  • East County
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  • March 20, 2020
Eddie Arnold Odom

Eddie Arnold Odom, 77, passed away peacefully Monday, March 16 at Tidewell Hospice in Lakewood Ranch, FL.

  • Sarasota
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  • March 17, 2020
Robert Gray

Robert Gray, 82, of Weems, Virginia, formerly of Longboat Key, Florida, passed away March 15, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 16, 2020
John Oliver Summers

John Oliver Summers, 81, of Longboat Key, peacefully passed away Saturday, February 29th at his residence surrounded by his family.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 9, 2020
Marjorie Coons Sagman

Marjorie Coons Sagman, age 94, of Sarasota, Florida passed away on Friday February 28, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 4, 2020
Donna L. Schlorf

Donna L. Schlorf (Anderson) passed away Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at home with her husband of 59 years at her side at the age of 86.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 2, 2020
Harber Homer Hall

Harber Homer Hall, 99, of Bloomington, IL and Longboat Key, FL, passed away at 9 p.m. on February 22, 2020 at The Windsor of Lakewood Ranch Senior Living Facility in Lakewood Ranch. FL.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 27, 2020
Dorothy Barichak, RN

On Thursday, February 20, 2020 the world said goodbye to one of its finest caregivers, Dorothy M. Barichak, RN.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 21, 2020
Fr. Gerry

The family, including his sisters, Mary, Aine, Catherine, Brigid and Josephine, of the late Father Gerry Finegan thank you all for your expressions of sympathy and the kindness shown to us over the recent months on his passing.  

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 13, 2020
Margaret “Betty” Eul (née Evans)

Margaret “Betty” Eul (née Evans) died peacefully in Mother McCrory Manor on February 11, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio at the age of 96.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 11, 2020
Philip D. Cady

Unstoppable. Fearless. Adventuresome. Caring. Generous. Faithful.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 10, 2020
Dr. James Edmond Green

James Edmond Green, Ph.D., of Lakewood Ranch and Leakey, TX departed this world quietly and unexpectedly in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2019, after a life steered in the “fast lane” and filled with remarkable academic, professional and personal accomplishm

  • East County
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