By Ron Hayes
BOYNTON BEACH — For more than half a century, Busch’s Seafood on North Ocean Boulevard was a showplace, the only restaurant along A1A between Palm Beach and Delray Beach.
And Lucy Bergman, who died on April 11 at 82, was its star.
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By Steven J. Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Walter Janke remembered his wife, Maria, as a kind and thoughtful woman who constantly placed the needs of others above her own.“That’s just the type of person she was,” Mr. Janke said. “She was a caring person. Hel
By Willie Howard
OCEAN RIDGE — Flip Traylor made a living on the water around Boynton Beach most of his life. The Ocean Ridge resident loved fishing, music and his two West Highland white terriers, Dobbie and Duff. The former pilot, boat captai
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Herbert Leonard Wachtel, a military cardiologist who left the service in 1969 to join Bethesda Memorial Hospital’s burgeoning heart ward, died Feb. 12 in his sleep at home. He was 81.
After joining Bethesda
OCEAN RIDGE — Martin L. Gross of New London, N.H., and Ocean Ridge died Jan. 26, in Ushuaia, Argentina, following a stroke suffered en route to Antarctica. He was 77 years old.
Mr. Gross and his wife, Deirdre, became winter residents of Ocean
By Dan Moffett
MANALAPAN — Kersen De Jong was the most controversial citizen in Manalapan because that’s what he wanted to be.
Born in the Netherlands, De Jong said he believed it his duty as a naturalized American to speak out whenever he found i
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Björn Nils Anders Lamborn, a prominent physicist who held a key role in establishing the Ph.D. program in physics at Florida Atlantic University, died Jan. 14 after suffering a bad fall following cataract surgery
By Ron Hayes
HIGHLAND BEACH — Joanne Freeman loved books.
Ms. Freeman, a former bookstore owner who volunteered with the Friends of the Highland Beach Library and later was a part-time member of the staff, died Feb. 6 after battling cancer.
By Scott Simmons
HIGHLAND BEACH — A little more than five years ago, Flossy Keesely sat down in her Highland Beach penthouse with The Coastal Star to talk about her long life for a profile.
She greeted her interviewer, prepared lunch and pooh-p
By Steven J. Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Teaching, mentoring and placing students into the workforce were the central missions of Judith Bartlewski’s life and truly defined her, said Paul Bartlewski, her husband of 43 years.
“Judi had such a passion
By Bill Meredith
BOCA RATON — Successful composers often remain in the shadows while the artists who perform their music skyrocket to fame, and one of the most versatile such writers was Luigi Federico Creatore.
The Manhattan-born Creatore
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Virginia Wesley Courtenay, a prominent interior designer who, in her 40 years in town, redecorated everything from the Florida governor’s mansion to a neighbor’s tiny kitchen, died Nov. 29 at her home under hospice
BRINY BREEZES — Mary C. “Polly” (O’Flanagan) Brady, of Briny Breezes and Plymouth, Mass., passed away peacefully on Dec. 15, surrounded by her loving family. She was 76 years old. As a child in South Boston, Mass., Mrs. Brady developed a love
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — As chairman of the Boca Raton Resort & Club and director of Discover Palm Beach County, R. Scott Morrison helped pass a penny bed tax to benefit local cultural organizations.
In 1982, its first year, $1,251,000 was c
By Steven J. Smith
GULF STREAM — Robert Craft will be remembered perhaps more as an upholder of composer Igor Stravinsky’s legacy than as a noted orchestral conductor, writer and lecturer in his own right, according to music scholars Leon Botstein
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — After he retired from his financial consulting firm a couple of years ago, Alan Alford became a city employee once again.
“He went to work as a ranger at Sugar Sands and Patch Reef parks three days a week,” recalled Le
HIGHLAND BEACH — Daniel Featherman, a resident of Highland Beach and formerly of Philadelphia, died Oct. 2 in hospice care at Delray Medical Center. He died from complications resulting from surgery.
Mr. Featherman, 83, was secretary and treasurer
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — When staff members at the Boca Raton Historical Society wanted reliable information about the city’s early days, they called Dave Ashe.
He had lived those early days as a boy, and then, as a man, founded the society to
HIGHLAND BEACH — Gordon B. Kelley, 77, passed away peacefully on Oct. 22, 2015. Born and raised in Decatur, Ga., Gordon attended and graduated from the University of Georgia, where he played football for the Bulldogs and helped them win an SEC ch
DELRAY BEACH — Kathleen Stephens Moraskie died at her home in Delray Beach on Oct. 1 surrounded by her children. Originally from Shamokin, Pa., Mrs. Moraskie was the daughter of John Edmund and Anna (nee Hollenback) Collins, sister of Anne (Sc
