Delray Beach native Daisy Sundy Earls — granddaughter of Delray Beach’s first mayor, John Shaw Sundy, and daughter of Benjamin Franklin Sundy, one of Palm Beach County’s earliest commissioners — was in town recently for a short visit. While at the home her grandfather built in 1902, now the Sundy House restaurant and hotel, Earls recalled Delray Beach’s early years when her father would make breakfast by the ocean with his camping stove and when her aunts, Addie and Sadie Sundy would hold bonfires on the beach. ‘Back then this was a town where your mother would say goodbye to you in the morning and not see you again until 5 p.m.,’ she said. Now a resident of a small town in Texas, Earls also recalled the war years in Delray Beach when she and other residents were called upon to climb to the top of the old Seacrest Hotel — where the Marriott Delray Beach now sits — and keep a lookout for enemy warcraft.
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