By Ron Hayes
In the fall of 1936, twocountry boys arrived in Columbus, Ohio, to begin their freshman year at the
state university.
Robert Neff was from
Canfield; William Saxbe from Mechanicsburg.
They became friends, fraternity
brothers and, seven
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By Dianna Smith
OCEAN RIDGE — In his 83 years of life, Roy Titus started more than 15 businesses andhe watched carefully as his four grown children continued what he had started so many years ago.
Titus, responsible for Minuteman Press Internatio
By Emily J. Minor
Betty
Ives, who for many years traveled seasonally between her beloved Michigan and
her beloved Florida, died Aug. 5 after a fairly brief illness. She was
87.
Born
March 3, 1923, outside Flint, Mich., Mrs. Ives — who often went b
By Mary Thurwachter
BOCA RATON — Anne M. (Connolly) Formichella, “Nan” to her family and friends, never revealed her age, but those who knew her best say she always looked younger than her years. In high school, she looked much too young and would-be
He was the son of Jack (Ann) Lee of Briny Breezes and Jill Lee of Illinois. Other survivors include his brother, John Lee, sisters Jaime Lee a
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott
Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the
water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He was 66.
Ellington,
who lived in coastal Delray Bea
DELRAY BEACH — Dr. Peter T. Janulis struggled with his health recently, spending the last four and a half months in and out of Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He and
his wife, Lyn, knew his heart condition was very serious, but he h
By Tim O’Meilia
Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who becamethe police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.
Mr. Howarth, known as
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE - Jacqueline Bander Weisblut, 65, died on Memorial Day after bravely sufferingfrom multiple sclerosis since she was a young woman in her early 20s.
Her husband, Bob Weisblut, said his wife suffered a heart attack an
By Dianna Smith
RobertZelle spent his life giving to others.
He volunteered for years at various places such as schools and medical centerswhile living part of the year in Gulf Stream and the other in Nashville and while building his reputation as
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25
Eugene Lyne is pictured with his grandson, Eugene Lyne Aretsky.
By Emily J.
Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — It’s never
easy losing a beloved parent, but Diana Lyne is finding solace in the memories
after the death of her father, Eugene Lyne, 86, who spent his
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Not long ago,as his health failed and his birthday neared, Dick Keresey told his son, Jim,
“You know, I think I’d like to have my 94th birthday. I think it’ll be my
going-away party.”
Richard
Keresey turned 94 on M
By Antigone Barton
Life had become easy for Lydia Crozier, who was happily married and a successfuldecorator, when a little-understood epidemic began stealing people from her midst.
It was in the mid-1980s when she started cooking for homebo
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Francis P. Kelley, who all his adult life worked tirelessly for therights of the mentally handicapped and helped Eunice Shriver establish the first games in the Special Olympics, died in his sleep at home in late
By Antigone Barton
MANALAPAN — A child when she learned to ride, and a young woman when shecompeted as an equestrian in Madison Square Garden, Susan Findlay Cathey never lost her love for horses. She picked up more loves along the way: her f
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
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