By Rich Pollack
David Matthewman had just come back from a ceramics convention in Virginia and texted his father on the Thursday before Easter to let him know it went well.
“He ended the text by telling me ‘I love you,’” William Matthewman said, add
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BOCA RATON — Gary John Tiesenga died on May 13 in Boca Raton as a result of complications from diabetes. He was 63.
He was preceded in death by his brother, James Tiesenga; and his father-in-law, Richard Brueneman.
Lovingly remembering Mr. Tiesenga
HIGHLAND BEACH — John F. Rand, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died May 4 at his home. He was 99.
Mr. Rand was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and married his high school sweetheart, Ingeborg Schmitz, in 1946 upon
OCEAN RIDGE — Dorothy Jean (Copenhaver) Taylor of Ocean Ridge died at home Feb. 26, surrounded by family. She was 100.
Dorothy was born Dec. 6, 1922, to Mary Helen and Lloyd Copenhaver in Joliet, Illinois. She was an only child who loved sports and o
BOCA RATON — Barbara Ruth Finesmith died on April 20 in Dedham, Massachusetts. She was 91.
A longtime resident of Boca Raton, formerly of Worcester, Massachusetts, and Great Neck, New York, Mrs. Finesmith was the beloved and devoted wife of Max Fines
By Rich Pollack
Just six days before he was set to begin his second term in office, Highland Beach Mayor Doug Hillman died March 15 following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77.
Mr. Hillman’s death, which came less than two months after
LANTANA — John Joseph Holloway passed away March 13 in Burnsville, North Carolina, at the age of 61. He was the son of Emma Holloway and the late John Holloway Sr.
Born in Detroit, he soon relocated with his family to Florida, where he attended scho
By Sallie James
MANALAPAN — She was a dedicated volunteer who spent years helping in the town library and working at the polls, but it was the warmth that emanated from longtime resident Olga Cuyar’s bubbly personality that made her so unforgettable.
By Sallie James
BOCA RATON — She was a military wife who traversed Europe with two young children. A trailblazing lover of native plants who authored a book on Florida wildflowers and an adventurer who once talked her way into a party in France to me
BOCA RATON — Marjorie Louise Altier died in the early morning of Feb. 17 at the age of 94.
She was born in Pennsylvania on Dec. 19, 1928, and graduated from West Pittston High School. She married Joseph Altier in 1954 and they had three sons. In 1961
HIGHLAND BEACH — On Dec. 20, 2022, Robert Boehm Ressler’s journey concluded. At age 99, he passed away in a warm and loving senior home.
Bob was born in Pittsburgh on May 5, 1923, the second son to Florence and Elmer. As a boy, he enjoyed hunting and
By Mary Hladky
BOCA RATON — Susan Whelchel, a force in city politics for nearly 20 years whose vision was to transform Boca Raton into a world-class city, died at age 77 on Aug. 5 surrounded by her family after battling Alzheimer’s disease.“Former Ma
BOCA RATON — Patricia “Patti” Payne Carpenter, an ever-present pillar of the Boca Raton community, died Aug. 8, surrounded by her family and friends. She was 74.
Mrs. Carpenter will be missed by those who worked alongside her on a variety of charitab
By Mary Thurwachter
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Narine Ebersold, a good, kind and friendly woman cherished by her children and admired by neighbors and friends, died on Aug. 26 at Palm Garden of West Palm Beach. She was 95.Mrs. Ebersold and her late husband, D
By Brian Biggane
BOYNTON BEACH — Near the end of a lengthy interview with Ken and Cat Hilgendorf concerning the recent death of their daughter Capri Grotowski, Ken summed up all the two had said previously: “She was our hero.”
They are not alone. Mrs
By Ron Hayes
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Don and Alice Edge moved into their Hypoluxo Island home on April 9, 1959.
Two years earlier, the young architect had bought the 6,000-square-foot lot on Southeast Atlantic Drive for $6,000. He designed the house, paid
DELRAY BEACH — Dickie McCusker died surrounded by family in his Delray Beach home on May 2, four years after a cancer diagnosis. He was 67.
Dickie was born on Nov. 25, 1954, with a twin sister, Diane, in Braintree, Massachusetts. Parents Richard McCu
DELRAY BEACH — Maude Erskine Banta — gardener, volunteer and enthusiastic letter writer — died at her home on May 15. She was 97.
Maude Erskine was born Aug. 13, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to James Douglas Erskine and Marguerite Maxwell Ogilvie. S
HIGHLAND BEACH — Madonna Therese Mahon of Highland Beach and Madison, Connecticut, died at the family beach house in Madison on May 15. She was 62.
Born Nov. 20, 1959, in Columbus, Ohio, she was the second eldest child of Arthur J. Mahon and Myra Ell
OCEAN RIDGE — Theodore “Ted” Charles Ritota of Ocean Ridge died April 24 at Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach, where he was in hospice care after suffering an intracerebral hemorrhage. He was 67.
Ted Ritota was born Oct. 18, 1954, at Columbia H
