BOCA RATON — Francis “Frank” Peter Cardinale, age 63, passed away peacefully Dec. 25 at Trustbridge Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton. He was born Dec. 4, 1954, in Jersey City, N.J.
He was preceded in death by his father, Peter, mother, Livia, and
By Dan Moffett
BRINY BREEZES — John “Jack” Lee arrived in Briny Breezes back in 1958 as an 8-year-old from Central Illinois and instantly forged what would be an enduring relationship with the mobile home park on the ocean. Mr. Lee would visit
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — As mayor of Highland Beach from 1989 to 1993, Joseph Boulay made it a point to have an open-door policy and to try his best to solve any problem residents brought to him. “You could go to him with anything,” hi
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Bev Williams was partial to bright red colors, sweet desserts and simple acts of kindness.
She was made for Christmas, and for 15 years residents of Briny Breezes seldom thought of one without the other. “I started
By Dan Moffett
MANALAPAN — Louis DeStefano served two terms as an elected official on the Manalapan Town Commission, but perhaps his greatest public service was as the community’s unofficial spiritual counselor. When illness struck friends and
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — Smashing glass ceilings was Adelaide Van Winkle’s specialty, as she made purposeful strides in her life at a time when most other women could only dream about such success.
“Adelaide was a person who meant what she s
By Steve Plunkett
GULF STREAM — By many retirement standards, Gary Ward was young.
But at age 41, after 21 years as a New York City policeman and 2½ years in the Army, he did retire. In 1988 he packed up his belongings and moved to Boynton Bea
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — David David was a pioneer, a lifelong resident of Briny Breezes who knew the town as a child when it had only one telephone, a teenager who surfed its waves, and a man who remembered the changes he’d seen with both nos
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Samuel S. Stephenson III, who picked up his wife and two small children in 1968 to move to Florida and help lead a fairly new college called Florida Atlantic University, died June 21 in hospice care. He was 93.Bo
By Rich Pollack
BOCA RATON — Even in retirement, Dr. Pinghui Victor Liu remained a scientist.
A microbiologist, physician, and tenured professor at the University of Louisville, Dr. Liu was a leader in his field and in the 1960s discovered
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Walter Helmut Baum, a well-known lifeguard at Delray Beach’s Anchor Park S5 beach lifeguard station for nearly two decades, died June 17 from complications of a stroke he suffered five days earlier. He was 55.
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By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — Bernell Stein lived a remarkably self-sufficient life marked by successful forays into retail sales, the founding of several businesses and ultimately a devotion to community service, according to her daughter, Elod
By Dan Moffett
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Mark Harris worked for 27 years as a paramedic with the Fire Department of New York, and on 9/11 arrived at Ground Zero just as the second airplane hit the tower.
Years later, after retiring to South Palm Beach
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — John R. Pisapia, a lifelong student of education who loved traveling and learning from leaders in other parts of the world, died May 2 after becoming ill last summer. He was 79.
Although unable to speak in the las
By Emily J. Minor
LANTANA — Ray Flow, the son of North Carolina tobacco sharecroppers who left his small hometown to join the service and then moved to Florida to marry, start a family and surround himself in community, died May 19.
Mr. Flow
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — Even after his second tenure as a Highland Beach commissioner came to an end in 2011, John Sorrelli always made it a point to stop by Town Hall as part of his morning routine.
“It was his ritual,” said Beverly
GULF STREAM — William Paul Luke, M.D. , 89, passed away peacefully on April 25 at home in Gulf Stream, succumbing to Lou Gehrig’s disease, which he had fought for 15 years. Not a record, but he tried.
He was eased on his way by his loving ca
By Emily J. Minor
BOYNTON BEACH — Susan Eileen (McDonald) Norton, whose good manners and slight frame often belied her stubbornness, true grit and power on the tennis court, died last month after fighting a rare cancer that showed itself last May,
By Dan Moffett
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Vice Mayor Joseph “Joe” Flagello approached his role on the South Palm Beach Town Council with a bountiful supply of self-deprecating humor. He liked to joke about the council’s division of labor. Mayor Bonnie
DELRAY BEACH — Marcus W. Smith, 82, of Delray Beach and Prouts Neck, Maine, died peacefully on Feb. 27. He is survived by his devoted wife of 31 years, Alexandra White Smith; his five children and their spouses: Marcus W. Smith Jr. of New Canaan,
