By Ron Hayes
County Pocket —When they saw the American flag athalf-staff over Surf Road, the painting of Ponce De Leon against the pole, his
neighbors knew Elvin Priest was gone.
A resident of the county pocket since
the late 1960s, Mr. Priest di
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By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Lisl Bischof Ekvall, anative of Vienna, Austria, who fell in love with a U.S. Navy man after the war
and moved to the states — died April 17 after a sudden hospitalization. She was
85.
Mrs.
Ekvall married her hus
By Antigone Barton
Gulf Stream — When thieves took a boy’s wheelchair, the story made the news.
Louise
Mallory’s response didn’t make the news, but the child got a new wheelchair.
That
was the way Mrs. Mallory wanted it, Frank Giacalone, her
By Emily J. Minor
Gulf Stream — Shirley Bennett, a Gulf Stream resident who was loved for her easysmile, sense of humor and outstanding Key lime pie, died March 31 in the hospice unit at Bethesda Memorial Hospital after a very recent series of
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Ret. Air Force Col. George Robert Brendle, 92, died in his home at Seagate Towers
Condominiums on April 6 surrounded by his family, including his wife of 67
years. His son said he had been in failing health for so
Briny Breezes — L.J. “Jay” Beardslee passed away on March 25 at his residence in Palm Bay with his wife of 64 years, Grace, at his side.
His daughter Louise and son-in-law Bob, who live in nearby Melbourne, are assisting with final arrangements.M
By Antigone Barton
Gulf Stream — Charles R. Carden flew around the country as an airline pilot and immersed himself in history, reading whatever accounts of centuries past he
could find.
But mostly, the Gulf Stream resident loved his life in Flo
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Patricia Wade Owen, a Chicago native who joined key socialphilanthropic causes when she was a young college graduate, died March 15 at age 87. She had been in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County for about t
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Mary Ellen Cannon, who raised her six children in Michigan and moved toFlorida in her later years to golf, garden and give more attention to her love for crafting, died in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Eileen T. Simpson, who began coming to Crown Colony Club nearly 30 years ago when she and her husband bought a condo here forretirement, has died of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. She was
82.
Mrs. Sim
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — The words appeared for a week on the town's closed-circuit television station: In Memory of Carl Gauer.That's how this small, mobile home community reports the death of friends and
neighbors, but this time the message wa
