OCEAN RIDGE — Mauro J. Walker, beloved husband, devoted father, grandfather, great-grandfather, accomplished engineer, and lifelong problem-solver, died Aug. 28. He was 90.
Born Nov. 21, 1935, to Nancy and Frank Walker in the coal-mining town of Hazl
FORT MYERS —Jon Larsen Shudlick, 84, of Fort Myers, formerly of Ocean Ridge and Rice Lake, Wisconsin, died on Aug. 3, 2025. He was born on Sept. 23, 1940, in Rice Lake, to Arthur and Florence (Larsen) Shudlick.
Mr. Shudlick was baptized into the Chr
MANALAPAN — Sharon Allen Kirkland, a frequent volunteer in town, died Aug. 7. She was 84.
Born Nov. 12, 1941, to Joe and Lillian Allen (née Corinth) in Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Kirkland grew up in Westport, Connecticut, where she graduated from St
VILLAGE OF GOLF — Howard “Chip” Emerson Nestor Wilson, a distinguished, healthy and fit husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, was struck and killed Aug. 9 as he returned to his car after dinner with his beloved wife, Patti, in Pols
MANALAPAN — Lisa Petersen, who served 18 years as Manalapan’s town clerk, died surrounded by family on July 21 after suffering an injury. She was 70.
Town Manager Eric Marmer said Mrs. Petersen was “a familiar, trusted presence to generations of resi
BRINY BREEZES — Joanne Garrott Long, a bridge player who shared her enthusiasm with friends old and new, died June 29. She was 96.
Born on Aug. 4, 1929, in Peoria, Illinois, to Ashton and Doris Johnson Garrott, she married Donald David Long on July 8
DELRAY BEACH — Willard George Kramer Jr., cherished by family and friends for a lifetime of kindness and generosity, died April 30. He was 96.
Mr. Kramer was a former member of Delray Dunes. He was also a member of the Delray Beach Club and The Littl
By Sephora Charles
OCEAN RIDGE — Town Commissioner Dave Hutchins, a longtime commercial airline pilot who devoted the past decade of his retirement to serving his adopted town, died on May 18. He was 78.
Mr. Hutchins was first appointed as an altern
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Rental spaces in the former dairy farm called Briny Breezes were going for $3 a week when Dorothy McNeice’s father first parked his travel trailer there in October 1938. She was 10.
In 1958, when winter residents bought t
LANTANA — Jackson Hill Payne, 33, of Palm Beach, passed away on Feb. 1, leaving behind a profound sense of loss for all who knew and loved him.
Jackson graduated from the college-preparatory boarding program at The Frederick Gunn School in Washington
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Joan Nicholls lived a double life on Facebook.
She was Joan Nicholls on her personal page, and she was Joan Briny Nicholls on the page reserved for the countless photographs she took of her town and its people.
“She had h
DELRAY BEACH — Devoted family man Leon Oliver Surles Sr. died Feb. 4. He was 72.
Mr. Surles was born in West Palm Beach to Mina Surles and Leonard L. Surles Sr. and was a lifelong resident of Delray Beach, where his family’s roots extend back generat
GULF STREAM — Longtime resident Georgie Williams Lewis died here Feb. 26. She was 103.
Born in 1922, she started coming to the area as a child in the 1920s and 1930s, when her parents, Eugene F. Williams and Marie Wight Williams of St. Louis, had a h
DELRAY BEACH — Sonya Isabelle Marcellino Costin of Delray Beach and Lake Burton, Georgia, died March 19. She was 91.
Sonya graduated from Seacrest High School in Delray Beach in 1952 and married her high school sweetheart, Bob Costin. Together, they
OCEAN RIDGE — Don Young died Nov. 23 while in hospice care at his home in Ocean Ridge, with his family by his side. He was 89.
Mr. Young was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 12, 1936, to his loving parents, Donald John Young and Elizabeth Cowan
WELLINGTON — Charles Andrew Elmore, a reporter at the Palm Beach Post for 30-plus years and more recently a freelancer for The Coastal Star, died Oct. 30 at his home in Wellington, less than three months after diagnosis with metastatic colon cancer.
OCEAN RIDGE — Thomas Waters Perry III died Sept. 15 at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, surrounded by his cherished friends and loved ones. He was 73.
Born on May 14, 1952, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Mr. Perry lived a vibrant life defined by his in
By Rich Pollack
DELRAY BEACH — Frances Bourque’s name will forever be synonymous with Delray Beach’s Old School Square.
A tenacious and passionate supporter of the complex that serves as the city’s cultural center, Mrs. Bourque spent decades as a vo
Election slated to fill Rep. Casello's House seat
By Tao Woolfe
BOYNTON BEACH — Longtime firefighter and Florida state Rep. Joe Casello, D-Boynton Beach, who went from fighting fires to fighting for his constituents, died on July 18 from a heart atta
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
