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
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By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Marguerite Sanford, who began coming to Briny Breezes with her mother back in 1954 and was considered somewhat of a matriarch in Briny’s graying neighborhood family, died Oct. 27 during a visit to her daughter’s h
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Ethel Sloan Allen, the consummate Great Gatsby girl whose coming out as a debutante was much ballyhooed by the famous New York gossip writer, Cholly Knickerbocker, died Oct. 26 at her home in Gulf Stream. She was
First, on behalf of my mom, thank you all so much for coming. You all meant a lot to her.
We’re all here to remember and celebrate the life of a great woman. A woman who had a passion for duckpin bowling. A woman who enjoyed pina coladas. A woman
GULF STEAM — Wilma Ann and George Elmore moved to Delray Beach in the early 1950s and started a small paving business they named Hardrives. George paved driveways for $125 each. Wilma did the books. And kept the house. And raised
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — William F. “Bill” Jackson, a resident of Delray Beach and Ocean Ridge for more than 20 years, died Sept. 21 at Wellington Regional Medical Center following surgery. He was 73. “Bill was a wonderful neighbor. He always
Raised in Titusville, Dr. Chapman graduated from the University of Memphis, College of Medicine, in 1977. A well-regarded
GULF STREAM — Thomas Mulry, a lifelong financial adviser for the utilities industry who began coming to Gulf Stream in the early 1960s when he and his wife were just newlyweds, died Oct. 23 after a brief illness. He was 79.
“He loved
By Thomas R. Collins
The call came at 2:20 a.m. My mom was about to die.
I’d been preparing for this for the last two years. But I still felt as though a trapdoor was about to open beneath me.
Wilma Ann Elmore of Delray Beach
By Ron Hayes
GULF STEAM — Wilma Ann and George Elmore moved to Delray Beach in the early 1950s and started a small paving business they named Hardrives. George paved driveways for $125 each. Wilma did the b
By Liz Best
BOCA RATON — All of Ann Greene’s friends knew that her favorite color was pink, but this “The Lady in Pink” was also known and loved for her warmth, generosity and gentle demeanor.
Mrs. Greene, of Boca Raton, died
DELRAY BEACH — Some men are blessed with long lives, and some are blessed with full lives.
Robert Hudson Neff had both.
He was born on Jan. 24, 1916, in Canfield, Ohio, and died here on July 24, at exactly 95½ years of age.
In between,
Mr. Coleman was a graduate of Dartmouth College. He joined
Born June 9, 1929, in New York City, Mr. Hassler was a graduate of Long Island University, where he earned a bac
COUNTY POCKET — The American flag at 12 Surf Road in the county pocket flew at half-staff last month, to mark the passing of a pirate.
Here in the pocket, this cozy warren of beachside bohemia, pirates are granted the same respect as presi
BRINY BREEZES — Mary Wattles, who discovered the magic of Briny Breezes back in 1985 and loved it from that first moment on, died June 20 in the Florida home she so loved. She was 85.
Her daughter, Beth, who lived with her for years i
Kenneth Charles Ellingsworth, life-long resident and ambassador for Delray Beach as the executive director of the city’s Chamber of Commerce for more than three decades, died May 29. He was 84.
Mr. Ellingsworth gave tirelessly to his home town, his so
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Doris B. O’Leary, a gracious New Englander who lived in South Palm Beach for more than half a century — by all accounts longer than anyone else in town — died May 28. She was 102, perhaps the oldest person in town.
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OCEAN RIDGE — Ides Makris loved to travel.
“That was her hobby,” remembers her husband, Geris. “Italy, France, Athens — you name it. She said, ‘Live life to the fullest.’ We have a picture of her on the Amalfi coast, leaning over t
OCEAN RIDGE — John Joseph Wurster died knowing the Colonel’s secret recipe.
“He knew it, he really did,” said Wurster’s widow, Josephine, the granddaughter of Kentucky Fried Chicken icon and founder Harland Sanders.
“I don’