GULF STREAM — Sara Shallenberger Brown, the widow of the former chairman of the board for the company that makes Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort and Old Forester, died at her Kentucky home in April. She had just turned 100 years old.
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GULF STREAM — Sara Shallenberger Brown, the widow of the former chairman of the board for the company that makes Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort and Old Forester, died at her Kentucky home in April. She had just turned 100 years old.
PALM BEACH — Weldon Yeager was in Michigan on business when a passing stranger gave him a seat on the Ocean Ridge Town Commission.
In the February 1990 election, both Mr. Yeager and Vera Klein, an 18-year veteran, garnered exactly 269 vote
DELRAY BEACH — Elizabeth Lacewell Armstrong, a native Texan who loved to golf, loved to read, and could trace her heritage back to the Alamo, died March 10.
She was 86.
A self-proclaimed Southern girl who attended Louisiana State Univ
PALM BEACH — Walter Richard Donahue, who moved to Florida in 1982 after a prosperous business career with several major U.S. corporations, died Feb. 24, nine weeks shy of his 91st birthday.
His second wife, Mary Sloneker Donahue, sai
Mrs. Murray’s husband, A. Harold Murray, prec
LANTANA — Robert “Bob” Long might have known a lot about real estate and what it took to sell a luxurious home, but the legacy he left behind to those who knew him wasn’t just that he was a fantastic Realtor.
Mr. Long’s legacy was that
GULF STREAM — Aloha Krueger, a resident of Gulf Stream for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a short illness. She was 97 and lived in Place Au Soleil.
Born in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 24, 1914, Mrs. Krueger moved to New York City af
By Emily J. Minor
HIGHLAND BEACH — Lydia Theurer Mikell Pfund, a popular docent at the Norton Museum of Art whose tours were always lively and informative, died March 8. She had just finished up a recent exhibit of her own paintings at the Delray B
By Tim O’Meilia
BOCA RATON — Ray Osborne, Florida’s first lieutenant governor in 80 years and an influential attorney in Boca Raton for nearly four decades, died March 3. He was 77.
Mr. Osborne, a former legislator, was appointed lieutenant governo
DELRAY BEACH —Doris Brady saw a lot of the world in her 94 years.
With her husband, she explored South America. They camped across Europe, visited Greece and toured Nepal. They drove across Monument Valley in the days when that was a risky
By Liz Best
OCEAN RIDGE — Michael N. Pettinicchi of Ocean Ridge died Feb. 16. He was 90 years old.
Born in Lucito, Italy, Mr. Pettinicchi grew up in Waterbury, Conn. He and his wife, Elizabeth, raised their three children in Cheshire, Conn.
He was a W
DELRAY BEACH — Katherine Novello Capone, who lived to be more than 100 years old and was up and about until a month before her death, died Feb. 12 at her home. She would have turned 101 in September.
A family woman who had been widowe
Born on June 7, 1946, in Cambridge, Mass., she was a graduate of Perry Normal Schoo
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Carmen B. Dickenson, a descendent of the Minorcan settlers who came to St. Augustine in the 1700s and forever changed the ethnic makeup of Florida, died Feb. 11 at her island condo with the pretty waterfront view. She
By Liz Best
HIGHLAND BEACH — Ferdinand “Ferd” Maggiore, known and loved among family and friends for an engaging sense of humor, his masterful storytelling and a love of all things Italian, died Feb. 4 in Delray Beach after suffering a stroke. He w
DELRAY BEACH — Margot Suzanne Graham, who grew up on Long Island and developed her sense of adventure as the daughter of a career Navy man, died Dec. 21 at the age of 65.
Mrs. Graham moved to Florida to live with her parents in the mi
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Joseph A. Piantedosi Sr., the retired president of the Piantedosi Baking Co. Inc., who moved to Ocean Ridge 20 years ago after first trying Boca Raton and deciding condo living wasn’t for him, died Jan. 9.
He was 87.
Mr.
By Tim O’Meilia
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Leon “Lee” Sol Zimmerman, a former vice mayor and councilman and one of the founders of the town’s popular music and lecture series, died Jan. 23. He was 90.
When Lee and Bernice Zimmerman settled permanently in South
BRINY BREEZES — Connie Oleson liked to paint furniture and give it to friends. She liked long walks up and down Old Ocean Boulevard. She liked fishing in the surf in front of the Briny Breezes clubhouse.
Most of all, she liked people, and