By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — During his retirement years, Thomas Browne did not play golf or bridge, racquetball, shuffleboard or tennis.
Mr. Browne walked. And walked.
Every morning he rose at 5, had breakfast, left his home in southern Delray B
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By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Natalie C. Marcon, a devoted wife and mother whose bright disposition and strong faith carried her through recent years of medical tribulations, died March 1. She was 69.
Although it was cancer that claimed her lif
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Miriam H. Knapp, a renowned sculptor who adored her family, old-school manners and the magic of stage ballet, died March 20 after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer over the summer. She was 77.
Born i
DELRAY BEACH — Barbara Banta Gracey, 89, a long-time Delray Beach resident, devoted mother and grandmother and volunteer for many local causes, died March 9 in Delray Beach.
Her death came four years to the day after the death of her husband of 59
By Emily Minor
BOCA RATON — Nancy Bayzar Toumayan, who moved to Florida in 1998 and spent many years as a home health-care nurse, caring and cooking for the lonely and ailing elderly, died March 21 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
“She ha
J. Ernest Brophy
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — J. Ernest Brophy, a winter resident of Boca Raton for 35 years, died March 19. He was 87 and had battled lung cancer and heart disease.
Mr. Brophy died peacefully at his Cocoanut Road home, surrounded by f
Lillian Rose Palladino Mericantante
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — When Father John Mericantante, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pahokee, was told that the $1 million he’d raised was not enough to start construction on a new church, his mothe
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Marion Cousins, who ran a meticulous dress shop on Atlantic Avenue back in the day when proper ladies never wore slacks to lunch, died Feb. 13 after a brief hospital stay. She was 100.
Ms. Cousins was born July
Charles Kraus
By Liz Best
BOCA RATON — Charles Kraus made a difference in his native New Jersey as a prominent Republican, banker and Bergen County roads chief. He also made a difference when he retired to the Esplanade condominiums in Boca Rato
BOYNTON BEACH — Their first restaurant back in 1936 was a tiny place in Briny Breezes. “I think it was only about four seats,” remembers Dorothy McNeice, somewhat of a local historian.
“You could come in and get sandwiches and of course they were famo
By Liz Best
DELRAY BEACH — Devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and dear friend to many, Ruth Houseman Thompson died peacefully at her home in Delray Beach on Christmas Day, 2011. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Thompson was preceded in
By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Carolyne Lanxon Kelley, who began coming to Briny Breezes with her husband and children to visit her mother back in the 1960s, died Jan. 18 after a five-year fight with cancer. She was 84.
A lifelong musician with
By Ron Hayes
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Jenny Bremanis’ son had a theory about his mother’s longevity.
“In New Jersey, her house had a basement, two floors and a walk-up attic,” Jake Bremanis recalled not long before her last birthday. “She got a lot of exe
OCEAN RIDGE — Greg Cunningham, 64, of Ocean Ridge, died Jan. 17 at his home.
Greg lived life with salt water in his veins, choosing to spend his entire life in, on, or around boats and the water. In his youth, Greg spent summers on Cape Cod, Mass. le
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — On the wall of his New York study, the celebrated journalist Bill Moyers keeps signed photographs of the great men he has known — John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.
He also keeps a photograph of Robert F
Eleanor and Heath Larry stand beside their Bentley at the Ballentrae condominium in the late 1970s.
Photo provided
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — Heath and Eleanor Larry were married for 73 years.
She died on Nov. 20, at 95.
He died on Dec. 18, e
Gloria Drummond was motivated to help found Boca Raton Regional
Hospital after two of her children were poisoned in 1962 and they died
en route to the hospital. Photo provided
For more on the Debbie-Rand League to support the Boca Raton Regional
By Angie Francalancia
BOCA RATON — Robert “Bob” Yamartino, who had spent nearly 30 winters at the Yacht & Racquet Club of Boca Raton, died peacefully there on Nov. 24. He was 94.
He loved his ocean view and dinners at the poolside Chickee Bar at t
By Steve Plunkett
BOCA RATON — Architect, preservationist and longtime city resident Howard McCall, whose designs included the Royal Palm Shopping Center and many of the original homes in the Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club, died Dec. 8, a year af
By Liz Best
DELRAY BEACH — Doris Asiel Meyer died peacefully at her Delray Beach home on Nov. 5. She was 96 years old.
She left her hometown of New York City, where she worked in former Mayor John Lindsay’s administration, for the sunny shores