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BRINY BREEZES — Julia “Judy” Okum Snyder of Briny Breezes died Feb. 4, at the Montage in Yardville, New Jersey. She was 92.
She was born on March 1, 1927, in Yardley, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Catherine and Morris Okum. As Julia Okum, she graduat

By Rich Pollack

DELRAY BEACH — Ernie Simon, the grandson of Delray Beach pioneers, loved the city he grew up in so much that he crafted two plays about it and wrote annual Christmas productions that brought the community together.
Most of all, howev

OCEAN RIDGE — Ann Cody, who made family integral throughout her long life, died Feb. 24. She was 91.
Ann Handy was born on Dec. 31, 1928, in Montpelier, Vermont. The daughter of Toffee and Theresa Handy, Ann grew up in Montpelier and attended Saint M

By Sallie James

DELRAY BEACH — Longtime Delray Beach resident and construction executive Armand Burton Mouw, a former city commissioner and community activist known for his upstanding character, died Jan. 11 not long after a cancer diagnosis. He was

By Brian Biggane

GULF STREAM — Pete Dye, a longtime Gulf Stream resident who along with his wife, Alice, designed some of the world’s most iconic golf courses, died Jan. 9 in the Dominican Republic, where he had a home. He was 94.
Mr. Dye and Alice, w

By Sallie James

OCEAN RIDGE — Faith, family and friends are the values that defined the life of Ocean Ridge resident Thomas M. Roland, a proud World War II veteran, husband and father who also served his country with stints in the U.S. Border Patrol

By Sallie James

BRINY BREEZES — He was the voice of the resistance in 2005 when a developer offered residents of the beachside mobile home town known as Briny Breezes $500 million to buy their homes.
Thomas Byrne’s “Save Briny. Vote No” buttons garner

By Rich Pollack

HIGHLAND BEACH — The phone call came in the middle of that April 1970 night letting Jerry Goldmacher know that Apollo 13 was in trouble.
Mr. Goldmacher, the spacecraft manager at Grumman Aerospace for the lunar excursion module that w

By Sallie James

OCEAN RIDGE — Harry F. Sica Jr., a longtime Ocean Ridge resident who loved helping others almost as much as he loved spending time with his family, died on Nov. 16. He was 65 and had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
“He was a really ge

BOYNTON BEACH — Marie J. Horenburger died Nov. 12, surrounded by family. She was 78.
Born in 1941 in New York City, Marie Kedzierski was the first of six children born of the late Marie Kedzierski (Riso) and Edward Z. Kedzierski. She was raised in Ma

GULF STREAM — Swan A. Brown Jr., who designed and maintained landscape from Pompano Beach to Gulf Stream, died June 10 in San Francisco.
He was 96.
Mr. Brown established his own landscape architecture business in 1956. Over several decades, he complet

DELRAY BEACH — Robert “Bob” Gregor Currie, a proud resident of Delray Beach for 50 years, died Oct. 11 following a lengthy battle with cancer. He had turned 80 in July.
An architect by degree, Currie received his bachelor’s from the University of Minn

DELRAY BEACH — Blake Edward Vance of Delray Beach died Oct. 5, surrounded by family, after courageously battling a glioblastoma brain tumor. He was 83.
Mr. Vance was a loving husband, father, brother and friend and will be remembered for his quick, i

By Sallie James

HIGHLAND BEACH — E. Donald Morando was a devoted father, a World War II veteran and a mechanical engineer whose life was a tribute to the enduring appeal of chocolate and cherries.
The Highland Beach resident and longtime owner of the

By Ron Hayes

LANTANA — The Friends of the Lantana Public Library has about 150 dedicated members, but all would agree that when Sid Patchett died on Sept. 18, that library lost its best friend.
And he didn’t even live in Lantana.
Five days a week, fr

BOCA RATON — Ted Withall was born on Nov. 20, 1918, in El Paso, Texas, to Sam and Katy Withall. He died Aug. 8 at the Boca Raton Hospice, at age 100.
He was born just nine days after the end of World War I, when his father was discharged from the Arm

GULF STREAM — Betty Brown Van der Wolk, 89, of Gulf Stream and Osterville, Massachusetts, died Aug. 23 in Boynton Beach.
Betty Brown was born on July 18, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas, where she spent her early life and later graduated from Texas Christ

OCEAN RIDGE — Frances Evelyn Nolte died in her home in New Branford, Conn., on Aug. 4 at the age of 93.
She was born in New York City on April 14, 1926, to Evelyn and Manfred Messner. She graduated with a bachelor’s in literature from Duke Universit

By Sallie James

BOCA RATON — He was a savvy Boca Raton entrepreneur whose 62-year-old business is still open today, but those closest to Clyde E. DeShields say his greatest legacy was his devotion to family and dedication to helping single mothers. M

By Sallie James

DELRAY BEACH — Delray Beach fashion designer Marjorie Scott Ott, a devoted mother and entrepreneur whose stylish line of resort wear garnered national attention, died on May 3 at home. She was 97.
Mrs. Ott created the Toby of Palm Bea