By Rich Pollack
GULF STREAM — Joe Zaluski was a teacher’s teacher — an educator who stood out for his passion for his craft and a teacher who enjoyed passing on that passion to those who crossed his path during the 14 years he led the Gulf Stream Sch
DELRAY BEACH — Rita Ellis, former mayor of Delray Beach, died on March 15 due to complications from diabetes. She was 74.
Born in Spencer, West Virginia, Mrs. Ellis later moved to Florida, where she graduated from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne.
By Mary Hladky
BOCA RATON — Philanthropist Elaine J. Wold, whose generosity helped transform two leading Boca Raton institutions, died in mid-March at the age of 97.
Originally from New Brunswick, New Jersey, Mrs. Wold moved to South Florida in 1955
By Ron Hayes
BOYNTON BEACH — When I go, Eva Takacs often told her daughter and everyone else, I want to go with my swimsuit on, at the beach, in the water, on a lovely day.
On the morning of Dec. 31, her final wish was granted. She was 92.“The beach w
By Sallie James
OCEAN RIDGE — Glory B. King, a pioneering psychotherapist who founded the avant-garde Here and Now Institute in Boca Raton in the 1960s, died on Dec. 9 at Willowbrooke Court at St. Andrews of complications related to diabetes. She was
GULF STREAM — Catherine Hohenlohe Jacobus, a voracious reader and creative writer, died in Delray Beach on Dec. 21. She was 79. For the last 40-plus years, she divided her time between Florida and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, usually feeding, te
By Dan Moffett
BRINY BREEZES — When the Town Council had an open seat in 2016, Allen “Chick” Behringer stepped up and volunteered to fill it.
He said Briny Breezes had been good to him since his first visit in 2002, and now that he had left Long Isla
GULF STREAM — James Mellon Walton, a corporate and philanthropic leader in his hometown of Pittsburgh and humble volunteer serving Haitian children at Paul’s Place in Delray Beach, died Jan. 2 at his home in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, surrounded by his
OCEAN RIDGE — Barbara S. Traylor, longtime resident of Boynton Beach and Ocean Ridge, died peacefully at her home in Ocean Ridge on Jan. 21. She was 88.Mrs. Traylor was an independent woman, a professional who made many contributions to the Boynton B
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
— Mark Twain
Freelance writer and frequent Coastal Star contributor Ron Hayes posted the above quote on his Facebook page to recognize the 100th anniversary o
