Sharon Marie Reichle
Feb 9, 2025
Sharon Marie Reichle, of Lake City, passed away Sunday, February 9, 2025, at the age of seventy-five. Originally from Michigan, Ms. Reichle was a local resident for the past thirty-five years and worked as a pharmacy tech at the Lake City VA Medical Center for twenty years until the time of her retirement. She was a devoted mother, grandmother,...
Linda Herndon Crews
Feb 1, 2025
Linda Herndon Crews, age 82, passed away Saturday February 1st. She was born in Lake City on December 24, 1942, to the late John Henry and Lois Herndon. She was preceded in death by her husband Everett of 62 years.
Linda is survived by her two children, John Paul (Rhonda) Crews and Paula (Robb) Burns both of...
Mary Sue Bishop
Jan 31, 2025
Mary Sue Bishop, age 89 of Lake City, passed away Friday, January 31, 2025. Born in North Carolina, she was a daughter of the late John and Fannie Southerland Yarbrough. Ms. Bishop was a longtime food service worker with the Baltimore County Public School System in Maryland before moving to Lake City twenty years ago. She thoroughly enjoyed traveling...
Merril Raper
Jan 29, 2025
Mr. Merril Raper, age 76 of Lake City, passed away Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Born in Sparta, Tennessee to the late Noah and Zada Hodges Raper, he was a fifty-year Columbia County resident. Mr. Raper worked as a heavy equipment operator for the Columbia County Road Department for thirty-five years. Being very involved in the community, he coached basketball...
Wayne Edward Williams
Jan 27, 2025
Mr. Wayne Edward Williams, age 76, of Lake City, Florida passed away Monday, Jan. 27, in the HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, Lake City, Florida. Mr. Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts and served his county in the U.S. Navy for 23 years, including service in Vietnam, before moving to Lake City, Florida 30 years ago. After his retirement...
Wallace William Moon
Jan 25, 2025
Mr. Wallace William Moon, age 90 of Indiantown, Florida passed away on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Mr. Moon grew up in a coal mining family in Alabama before moving to South Florida where he enlisted in the US Army and served during the Korean War. Upon discharge from the Army, he returned to his South Florida home and worked...
Linda Faye Harris
Jan 25, 2025
Ms. Linda Faye Harris passed away Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the age of 77. Born in Lake City, Ms. Harris was the daughter of the late Ovie and Doris Burnsed Starling and was a lifelong resident. She was a delivery driver for the Lake City Reporter and the Lake City Advertiser and was also employed by the local...
Katrina Michelle Hiers
Jan 21, 2025
Mrs. Katrina Michelle Hiers, age 70, of Lake City, Florida passed away on Tuesday, Jan, 21, in the Suwannee Valley Care Center, Lake City, Florida. Mrs. Hiers was born in White Springs, Florida then moved to Adel, Georgia before moving to Lake City fourteen years ago. While living in Adel, Georgia she worked as a security guard and after...
Sandra Kay Osborn
Jan 19, 2025
Mrs. Sandra Kay Osborn, age 74, of Lake City, Florida passed away on Sunday, Jan. 19, in HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, Lake City, Florida. Mrs. Osborn was born in Mansfield, Ohio and had resided in Lake City, Florida since 1972. She worked in the food service department of Eastside Elementary School for over 20 years until her retirement....
Mary Louise Fennell
Jan 12, 2025
Mary Louise Fennell, age 93 of Fort White, passed away Sunday, January 12, 2025. Mary was born in Pace, Florida to the late George W. McCormick and Maybell Nowling McCormick.
A forty-five-year Columbia County resident, she was a member of Mikesville Presbyterian Church in Lake City and enjoyed gardening and being a homemaker. Mary also enjoyed her...
Alicia Lucas Randall
Jan 10, 2025
Mrs. Alicia Lynee Randall, age 53, of Fort White, Florida passed away on Friday, Jan. 10, in the Suwannee Valley Care Center, Lake City, Florida after a brief illness and a brave fight to be saved by Jesus. She was born in Gainesville, Florida and lived in Fort White, Florida for eleven years and also in White Springs, Florida....
Clayton J Hardy
Jan 5, 2025
Mr. Clayton J. Hardy 84 of Lake City passed away Sunday, January 5, 2025, at his home following a fall during a hunting trip. A native of Milton, Florida, Mr. Hardy resided in Lake City for the last 60 years. Mr. Hardy was the son of Jewell and Dora Hardy. In His spare time, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, trapping,...
Danny Louis Berry
Jan 3, 2025
Mr. Danny L. Berry, age 69 of Starke, passed away Friday, January 3, 2025. Originally from New Jersey, Mr. Berry was a thirty-year Bradford County resident. He served in the United States Army for twenty-three and a half years and was a highly decorated veteran. After his military discharge, he was employed by the State of Florida as a...
Jerry Gulmer Johnson
Dec 20, 2024
Mr. Jerry Gulmer Johnson, age 77, of Lake City, Florida passed away on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in the Suwannee Valley Care Center, Lake City, Florida. Mr. Johnson was born in Rutherfordton, North Carolina and had resided in Lake City for the past 30 years. A US Navy Vietnam Veteran, Mr. Johnson served for 30 years and retired as...
Franklin "Frank" Wardell O'Steen
Dec 19, 2024
Mr. Franklin Wardell “Frank” O’Steen, age 81, of Fort White, Florida passed away on Thursday, Dec. 19, in the Suwannee Valley Care Center, Lake City, Florida. Mr. O’Steen was born in Branford, Florida and resided in Fort White, Florida most of his life. He worked as a maintenance superintendent with Occidental Chemical Company, White Springs, Florida for over 30...
Cheryl Ann Wilkin
Dec 13, 2024
Ms. Cheryl Ann Wilkin, age 66, of Jacksonville and formerly of Lake City, passed away on Friday, December 13, 2024. Cheryl enjoyed hugs, kisses, a good meal, and Icee’s to drink. She loved magazines and her baby dolls. Although she was disabled her entire life and mostly non-verbal, she loved the holidays and at Christmastime she always offered a...
Florene Bullard Odom
Dec 8, 2024
Florene Bullard Odom passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 8, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. Born on February 3, 1939, in Lake City, Florida, she married her beloved husband Harley in July 1959, beginning her adult life as a United States Air Force wife. His military career took the couple to Frankfort, Germany, where their daughter Teresa was born, and...
Anita Faye Napier
Nov 30, 2024
Mrs. Anita Faye Napier, a forty-two-year resident of Lake City, passed away Monday, July 14, 2025, at the age of 91. Mrs. Napier was one of fourteen children born in Hyden, Kentucky to the late Pearl and Leona Morgan Smith. To help support her family, she began working at a young age and was employed by Whitings Linen Manufacturing...
Edward F Gray, Jr
Nov 28, 2024
Edward F. Gray Jr, 65, of Lake City, FL passed away suddenly on Thursday morning, November 28, 2024 after battling stage 4 terminal cancer. He was born in Manchester, NH on January 20th, 1959 to the late Edward F. Gray Sr and Elsie Gray. Ed was a man of many traits, he has been a carpenter for a good...
William "Jim" Roberts, Jr.
Nov 27, 2024
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of William James "Jim" Roberts, Jr., age 84, on Nov. 27, 2024 in the HCA Lake City Hospital, Lake City, Florida. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family. Jim was born in Elberton, Georgia and attended Mercer University and Mercer Law School, graduating in 1965. He then joined the...
