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  • April 15, 2024
Jean Arvilla Weeks Hanna

Jean Arvilla Weeks Hanna, a longtime resident of Longboat Key passed away on February 21st, 2024.

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  • April 9, 2024
Jeffrey Michael Deane

Jeffrey Michael Deane, 77, of Annapolis, MD, and Sarasota, FL, passed away on April 4, 2024, at the Hospice of Chesapeake Rebecca Fortney Inpatient Care Center in Pasadena, MD, after a fierce three-year battle with metastatic prostate bone cancer.

  • Longboat Key
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  • April 2, 2024
Winston Monroe Register

Winston Monroe Register was born in Bismarck, ND to parents Clare E. and Elizabeth R. Register August 21, 1935.

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  • March 15, 2024
Stanley “Stan” Pastor

Stanley “Stan” Pastor

  • Sarasota
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  • February 27, 2024
Margaret “Pat” McGouran

Margaret “Pat” McGouran, resident of Bradenton, FL, passed away on February 17, 2024 at the age of 81.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 22, 2024
James Stephen ‘Steve’ Cox

James Stephen ‘Steve’ Cox, 72, of Bradenton, FL, passed away on February 14, 2024, with his family by his side.

  • East County
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  • February 21, 2024
Albert “Jay” Graf

Albert “Jay” Graf, 76, of Longboat Key, Florida and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire passed away January 8th, 2024 from Alzheimer’s disease in Sarasota, Florida.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 19, 2024
Carmela Picardi

Carmela Picardi age 93 died peacefully on February 11, 2024, at Manatee Memorial Hospital.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 19, 2024
Andri Anna (“Andy”) Youngs

Andri Anna (“Andy”) Youngs, 89, longtime resident of Longboat Key, Fl. passed away on February 8, 2024.

  • Longboat Key
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  • January 9, 2024
Pauline Martin

Pauline Martin, “The Lady with PAZZAZ” passed away peacefully at the age of 83 on January 4, 2024.

  • Siesta Key
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  • January 8, 2024
William Kenneth (“Ken”) Morris

William Kenneth (“Ken”) Morris passed away on January 2, 2024, after a two-year struggle with idiopathic lung disease.

  • Longboat Key
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  • January 2, 2024
Phillip J. Kreis, Jr.

Phillip J. Kreis, Jr. of Sarasota, FL and formerly of Pittsburgh, PA and Longboat Key, FL passed away on December 18, 2023.

  • Longboat Key
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  • January 2, 2024
Jane Coxe Bassett Shellhamer Oaks

Jane Coxe Bassett Shellhamer Oaks passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN on December 20, 2023.

  • Longboat Key
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  • December 21, 2023
Julie Marie Harrington

Julie Best, 82, died peacefully at her home in Longboat Key, Fla. on Dec. 9, 2023.

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  • December 21, 2023
Sylvia N. Turner

Sylvia N. Turner, “Dessert Queen Of Venice”, passed of natural causes at the age of 91 on December 11, 2023.

  • Sarasota
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