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
