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Pensacola, FL and surrounding areas
Karen Smith Gwaltney Harrelson
Nov 14, 2022
Lisa "Karen" Smith-Gwaltney Harrelson, 62, of Pace, FL passed away Monday, November 14, 2022.
Karen was born on August 2, 1960, in Pensacola, FL. She was a loving and caring, wife, mother, sister, niece, and cousin. She was a friend to all! She would give you the shirt off her back if she sensed you were in...
Nivia Buchanan
Nov 12, 2022
Nivia "Nivy" Buchanan of Jay, FL went to be with our Lord on Saturday, November 12, 2022, after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
She will be dearly missed by every person she ever encountered as she was a shining example of God's love on earth! Nivia was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and moved to the US...
Glenda Carole Maddox Newton
Nov 12, 2022
Glenda Carole (Maddox) Newton, 85, passed away Saturday, November 12, 2022, surrounded by her loving family.
Glenda grew up in Pensacola, FL and was a graduate of Pensacola High School class of 1954. She attended and was married in East Hill Baptist Church, on November 24,1955 to Jimmie Bruce Newton also from Pensacola, FL. She was a...
John Sidney Gaynoe
Nov 9, 2022
John Sidney Gaynoe, 77, of Pensacola, FL passed away Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
John was born on June 10, 1945, in Ft. Walton Beach, FL to Maurice and Helen Gaynoe. He joined the US Navy and served honorably during Vietnam. John graduated from Auburn University in 1970. He held many positions in Finance over his career, including...
Margaret D. Schauer
Nov 9, 2022
Margaret D. Schauer, 83, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at her home in Gulf Breeze after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
Margaret was born on December 8, 1938, to the late Paul and Estelle Redd. She attended and graduated from Valley High School and after graduation she moved to Pensacola, FL to pursue a...
Retta Jan Smith
Nov 8, 2022
Retta Jan Smith, 67, of Niceville, FL passed away peacefully on November 8, 2022, surrounded by her beloved sons and their families. Her untimely passing was after a brief but intense battle with pancreatic cancer.
Retta was born in Madison, WV. After her high school graduation, she joined the United States Air Force where she proudly served...
Myra Joyce Thorsen
Nov 7, 2022
Myra Joyce Lambert Thorsen, 86, of Pensacola, FL, died at her home on Monday, November 7, 2022, after a month-long battle with sepsis.
She was born on October 25, 1936, in Pensacola, FL. She married Ted R. Thorsen in 1954 in Lucedale, MS. They divorced in 1969 but remained lifelong friends until his death in July 2021....
Di Fitzgerald
Nov 4, 2022
Diana "Di" Fitzgerald passed away at the age of 70, on Friday, November 4, 2022, surrounded by her loving family. Di was a 42-year member of the Pensacola community, who would have wanted to be remembered for teaching Math at Pine Forest High School, her lay missionary work in the congregation of St. Mark United Methodist Church, founding the...
John Leslie Leblanc
Nov 4, 2022
John Leslie "Knuck" LeBlanc, 81, of Bluffton, SC, passed away suddenly on Friday, November 4, 2022, in Gulf Breeze, FL, surrounded by his dearest friends.
Born in Houma, LA, John made his worldly debut on August 27, 1941, in the middle of hurricane season. He grew up to be the valedictorian and a three-sport letterman at St....
Frances Helen Touart
Nov 2, 2022
Frances Helen Zdankiewicz Touart, 79, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, in Lawtey, FL.
Frances was born on March 6, 1943, in Hatfield, MA to Helen and Alexander Zdankiewicz. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Springfield, MA in 1961. On July 11, 1964, she married James Touart in Springfield,...
Ralph Bradley
Nov 1, 2022
Gerald Ralph "Peewee" Bradley, 86, passed away Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
Ralph was born in Pensacola, FL on January 25, 1936, to George and Annie Bradley. He graduated from Pensacola High School, Class of 1953. Ralph worked for Central Optical early in his working life and most notably for many years at the IGA /Apple Market. He...
Evelyn Parungao Pacheco
Nov 1, 2022
Evelyn Parungao Pacheco, devoted wife, and loving mother, passed peacefully from this life on the evening of Tuesday, November 1, 2022. She was surrounded and supported by her loving family and friends during the last days of her beautiful life.
Evelyn was born on April 16, 1968, in Jacksonville, FL to...
Albert Winter
Oct 28, 2022
Albert Winter, age 86, of Pensacola, FL, went home on Friday, October 28, 2022, in Pensacola, FL.
Albert was born to the late William E. and Anna Fiel Winter on November 19, 1935, in New York, NY. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather who proudly served his country in the US Army during the Korean...
Donald Ray Hill
Oct 26, 2022
Donald Ray Hill, 57, of Pensacola, FL passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, October 26th, 2022.
Don Ray was born December 21, 1964 in Bryant, Texas the son of Donald Hill and Nancy Hill, and spent many years in his youth traveling with family. As the family grew, we eventually settled down in Foley, AL. Don Ray completed...
John Neal Lassinger
Oct 26, 2022
John Neal Lassinger, 62, passed away peacefully of Alzheimer's Disease on Wednesday morning, October 26, 2022.
Neal was born September 8, 1960, to Luann Lassinger and the late John Lassinger in Warren, PA. In childhood, Neal enjoyed building model rockets and trains. He built his family's garage with his father and could always climb higher than his...
Tim T. Olsem
Oct 25, 2022
Timothy Thomas "Tim" Olsem, 74, of Santa Rosa Beach, FL passed away Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
Tim was born in St. Paul, MN, minutes before his twin brother, Thomas on October 1, 1948, to John and Edna Olsem. The family moved to Clarendon Hills, IL, where the twins and their older brother John spent their childhood. They...
Mary Kathryn "Kit" Maloney Quirk
Oct 24, 2022
Mary Kathryn (Kit) Maloney Quirk, 99 of Navarre, FL., passed away on Monday, October 24, 2022.
Kit was born and raised in Washington, DC she fell in love with Mike Quirk in High School. During WWII in June of 1944 while on a three-week liberty, Mike flew home from England, proposed, and they were married. When he...
Judith K. Mccabe
Oct 23, 2022
Judith K. McCabe, 83, of Gulf Breeze, FL died Sunday, October 23, 2022 at Gulf Breeze Hospital.
Judy was born in Hartford CT in 1939 and graduated from Connecticut College for Women in 1961. She and her young family lived in New England until relocating to Gulf Breeze in 1972. She arrived as a true Connecticut Yankee....
Robert E. Gilbert
Oct 22, 2022
Robert Errett Gilbert, 80, of Pensacola, FL passed away Saturday, October 22, 2022.
Robert was born April 21, 1942, to the late Lucille Metz Gilbert and Hugh Walter Gilbert in Louisville, KY.
While studying chemical engineering at Georgia Tech University, he met his wife and partner of 56 years, Ona Tift McGough, a young Delta...
Joann Mckinney Pace
Oct 21, 2022
JoAnn McKinney Pace, age 89, of Pensacola, FL, passed away peacefully at The Blake of Pensacola on Friday, October 21, 2022. JoAnn was born on January 7, 1933, to the late J.W. "Mac" and Muriel Saylors McKinney in Anderson, S.C.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Col. Joe B. Pace,...
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