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Lake City and surrounding areas

Ruby Wila Stormant
Jan 28, 2012
Mrs. Ruby Wila Stormant, age 81, of White Springs, Florida passed away on January 28, 2012 at her daughter’s home following an extended illness. She was born in Lake City, Fla., then moved to White Springs, Fla. and stayed until the death of her husband. She then moved in with her daughter, Katrina Hiers. She worked at the sewing factory...

William Singleton Young
Jan 26, 2012
Mr. William Singleton Young, age 84, of Macclenny, Florida died Thursday, Jan. 26, at his residence. He was a native of Baldwin, Florida and had resided in Portland, Oregon before moving to Macclenny, Fla. 30 years ago. He worked as a clerk with Seaboard-Coastline Railroad in Baldwin, Fla. and then retired with Burlington-Northern Railroad in Portland, Oregon. He was a...

Freddie Morris Reynolds,
Jan 22, 2012
Mr. Freddie Morris Reynolds, Sr., age 69 of Moniac, GA died Sunday, January 22 in the Shands Jacksonville Hospital, Jacksonville following and extednded illness. He was a lifelong resident of Moniac, Georgia and worked construction and remodeling homes, was a former chicken farmer and self employed truck driver. He was a member of the Moniac Baptist Church, loved fishing and...

John Malcolm Courson
Jan 20, 2012
John Malcolm Courson, 74, a resident of Lake City, Florida passed away January 20, 2012 at the Lake City Medical Center. Mr. Courson was born in Union County, Florida and is the son of the late James Lavern and Lula Dukes Courson. He has resided in Lake City for the past forty-seven years and prior to living in Lake City...

Stanley Edgar Steinhaus
Jan 19, 2012
Stanley Edgar Steinhaus, 92, a resident of Lake City, Florida passed away January 19, 2012 at the Lake City V. A. Medical Center. Mr. Steinhaus was born in Port Huron, Michigan and is the son of the late John and Pearl Steinhaus. He had resided in Lake City for the past ten years and prior to living in Lake City...

Eddie Berry Canady
Jan 18, 2012
Mr. Eddie B. "E.B." Canady, Jr., age 85, of Macclenny, Fla. died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. He was a native of Jacksonville, Fla. and then retired to Macclenny, Fla. in 1997. He worked with the U.S. Post Office, served as a deputy sheriff under three different sheriff's of Duval county. He retired as a real estate investor and was owner...

Jessie Lee
Jan 18, 2012
Mrs. Jessie Mae Dortch Lee, age 85, of Jacksonville, Fla. died Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at Ed Fraser Memorial Hospital, Macclenny, Fla. She was born in Lake City, Fla. to the late John and Elsie Tyre Dortch. Mrs. Lee was preceded in death by her husband, Willard Lee, her parents, her brothers Leonard, Bill, Johnny, and Jerry Dortch, and her...

Margaret Doris Fraser
Jan 16, 2012
Mrs. Margaret Doris Fraser, age 88, of Macclenny, Fla. died Monday, Jan. 16, in the St. Vincents Medical center, Jacksonville, Fla. after a short illness. She was born in Jacksonville, Fla. and had resided in Macclenny, Fla. most of her life. She had worked at Northeast Florida State Hospital and later was employed as an x-ray technician with Ed Fraser...

Buford James Edwards
Jan 11, 2012
Mr. Buford James Edwards, 90 of Lake City passed away on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville. He was a native of Crawford, Georgia and son to the late Ernest James and Clara Pope Edwards. Mr. Edwards was a veteran of the United States Army serving during World War II in the European...

Georgina Myers
Jan 9, 2012
Georgina Myers, 71, passed away in St. Petersburg, Fl. on January 9, 2012 after a long illness. Georgina was born in Portugal, but spent most of her life in Lake City, Florida where she was known for her kind spirit and love for others. Georgina loved to garden and was once awarded the Lake City Garden Clubs "Lawn of the...

Clyde Downing
Jan 8, 2012
Clyde Downing, 76, a resident of Lake City, Florida passed away January 8, 2012 at the Suwannee Health Care Center, Live Oak, Florida. Mr. Downing was a lifelong resident of Lake City, Florida and is the son of the late Caulie and Georgia Spells Downing. He was a farmer for all of his life. He is preceded in death by...

George D. Crawford
Jan 5, 2012
George Dwain Crawford, 61, a resident of Macclenny, Florida passed away January 5, 2012 at the Orange Park Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Crawford was a lifelong resident of Macclenny, Florida and is the son of the late Ardell and Nancy Mae Bennett Crawford. He was a truck driver for many years and a member of the Macclenny...

Andrew James Brown
Jan 4, 2012
Mr. Andrew James Brown, 77 and longtime resident of Lake City passed away on Wednesday, January 4 2012 at the Haven Hospice Suwannee Valley Care Center in Lake City. He was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1934 to the late Elmer Andrew James and Lillie E. Williams Brown. Mr. Brown graduated from the Madison County High School in 1954 and...

Wilma Davis Razo
Jan 2, 2012
Mrs. Wilma Davis Razo, age 88, of Sanderson, Fla. went to her heavenly home on January 2, 2012 after a long illness at home with her family by her side. She was a life long member of Dinkins New Congregational Methodist Church of Sanderson, Fla. She worked as a waitress and loved going to church and spending time with her...

Velmer Emerson White
Dec 28, 2011
Velmer Emerson White, 84, a resident of Lake City, Florida passed away December 28, 2011 at North Florida Regional Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida. Mr. White was born in Worton, West Virginia and moved to Lake City in 1982. He is the son of the late Burton White and Nora Lee Jarrell White. He served the Lord as a member of...

Kenneth Michael "Mike" Gainey,
Dec 28, 2011
Mr. Kenneth Michael “Mike” Gainey, Sr., 43 of Taylor passed away on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at the Orange Park Medical Center in Orange Park. Mike was born in Macclenny and was a life long resident of Baker County and the Taylor Community. He graduated from Baker County High School in 1987 where he played for the Varsity Wildcat Football...

Sherrod Tyson Ratcliff
Dec 26, 2011
Sherrod Tyson Ratcliff, 69, a resident of Lake City, Florida passed away December 26, 2011 at The Health Center, Lake City, Florida. Mr. Ratcliff was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi and moved to Lake City in 2001. He is the son of the late Fred Tyson and Leona Adeline Smith Ratcliff. He was a member of the Antioch Primitive Baptist Church,...

Fay Jewel Gay
Dec 26, 2011
Mrs. Fay Dicks Gay Meek, 89, Lake City, Florida passed away 26 Dec. 2011, at her residence. She was a life long resident of Columbia County and was educated in the Columbia County School System. She attended elementary school at Mason City and graduated from Columbia High School in 1939. She retired from the Florida Highway Patrol in 1979, where...

William "Bill" Grover Dudley
Dec 17, 2011
Mr. William G. "Bill" Dudley, age 38, of Lake City, Fla. died Saturday, Dec. 17, in Lake City, Fla. He was born in Gainesville, Fla. and lived all of his life in Lake City. He worked as an electrician with the I.B.E.W. Union #1205 in Gainesville, Fla. for over fifteen years. He attended the Bethlehem Baptist Church, was a graduate...

Le-Erna G. Parrish
Dec 16, 2011
Mrs. Le-Erna G. Parrish, 96 of Wellborn passed away on Friday, December 16, 2011 at the Baya Pointe Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lake City. She was a native of Muskogee, Oklahoma and had lived in the Orlando area prior to moving to Wellborn in 1966. She worked as a bookkeeper at the Knox Hardware Store in Orlando where she...
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