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Susan B. Emert

Susan B. Emert

Feb 12, 2021

Susan B. Emert, 73, passed away Friday, February 12, 2021.

She was born on September 27, 1947 in Galveston, TX to Marcie and Bill Brigham. Susan lived in Galveston until her father died when she was seven. Marcie and the two children moved to Yazoo City, MS and lived with Susan's grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Webb Brame....

Murray Jerome Holt

Murray Jerome Holt

Feb 12, 2021

Murray J. Holt, age 80, passed away, Friday, February 12, 2021. Murray was born on February 18, 1940 in Elkmont, AL to Cecil A. Holt and Grayce Loveless Holt. He graduated from Pensacola High School and attended Pensacola Junior College as well as the University of West Florida.

Murray began his career with the Pensacola Police Department...

Nell Vaughn

Nell Vaughn

Feb 11, 2021

Clara Nell Vaughn, 86, of Pensacola, FL passed away, Thursday, February 11, 2021.

Nell was born and raised in Red Level, AL on a farm until moving to Pensacola where she met her husband of almost 50 years, Johnny. They met dancing and continued to dance through life together until her stroke at age 59. Until then...

Ej Sacks

Ej Sacks

Feb 9, 2021

Ellsworth John "EJ" Sacks, Jr., 89, of Pensacola, FL passed from this earth on Tuesday, February 9, 2021.

EJ was born December 29, 1931 in Leavenworth, KS and raised in Biloxi, MS. Upon graduating from Mississippi State University, he entered Tulane Medical School. EJ began his Naval career in his last...

Edward Winston Rigby

Edward Winston Rigby

Feb 8, 2021

Edward Winston Rigby died peacefully after a long illness on February 8, 2021, in Pensacola, Florida at the age of 93.

Edward was born on December 31, 1927, to H. T. and Eva Mae Rigby. He married the love of his life Marian Ruth Rigby on May 27, 1949, and remained married to her for 65 years...

William "Bill" Merrill Mayo, Jr.

William "Bill" Merrill Mayo, Jr.

Feb 8, 2021

William "Bill" Merrill Mayo, Jr., 84, a resident of Pensacola, FL and Fayette, AL, passed away peacefully on Monday, February 8, 2021.

Bill was a proud son of the south and was a loving husband. He proudly served his country in the US Navy. He was born to the late Evelyn Adair Mayo, of Uniontown, AL and...

Bob Kent

Bob Kent

Feb 6, 2021

Robert Andrew "Bob" Kent died peacefully and surrounded by his family on Saturday, February 6, 2021, in Sylva, NC, after more than a decade of living with Parkinson's disease.

Bob was born in Century, FL on September 7, 1944, and grew up on the family farm in Jay, FL. Graduating from Jay High School in 1961, he...

Carlton Christian

Carlton Christian

Feb 6, 2021

Msgt, Carlton Larrell Christian, USAF, Ret., 68, of Panama City, FL, passed away on Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Carlton Christian was born in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Maggie L. Walker High School in 1971. He joined the military shortly after in 1972. He served for 23 years in the United States Air Force, retiring in 1995....

Kathy Markham

Kathy Markham

Feb 5, 2021

Kathleen Bridges "Kathy" Markham, passed away peacefully Friday, February 5, 2021.

She was born on November 4, 1941, in Bastrop, LA. She lived most of her life in Pensacola, Florida, attending N.B. Cook, A.V. Clubbs and Pensacola High School, where she met her husband of nearly 60 years, George W. Markham, Jr. She was a longstanding and...

Etsuko Higa Tanner

Etsuko Higa Tanner

Feb 5, 2021

Etsuko Higa Tanner, 90, unexpectedly passed away peacefully in Charlotte, NC surrounded by her family on Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Mom was born on March 21, 1930 in Atami-Shi, Shizuoka, Japan. A few years after her birth the family returned to Naha, Okinawa. Mom met our dad, Master Sergeant Sam M. Tanner, after WWII, they fell in...

Matthew Ferris Stancil

Matthew Ferris Stancil

Feb 4, 2021

Matthew Ferris Stancil, age 36, of Pensacola, was called home on Thursday, February 4, 2021.

Matthew was born in Anniston, AL to Ramona Phillips Stancil and the late William H. Stancil. Matthew was of the Christian faith, he was loved and will be missed dearly by his family and friends.

Matthew enjoyed camping and spending...

Margaret Lee Blue

Margaret Lee Blue

Feb 4, 2021

Margaret Lee Blue, 67, passed away peacefully in the presence of family in Pensacola, FL on February 4, 2021 after enduring a three-year battle with ovarian and breast cancer.

She is survived by three children, Jeanette Tuminaro, Rebecca Woodson (spouse John Woodson), and Robert Blue as well as six grandchildren: Alexandria, Nathan, Cameron, Katrina, Timothy, and LeighAnne...

Danice Chavis Sanchez

Danice Chavis Sanchez

Feb 3, 2021

Danice Chavis Sanchez, of Pensacola, Florida, age 85, passed away on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021, from a combination of congestive heart failure and lung cancer.  Danice was born on December 2nd, 1935, in Pensacola, Florida to Kenneth and Eva Chavis. Danice is preceded in death by her husband, Philip Joseph Sanchez III, her son, Philip Joseph Sanchez IV, and...

Fredric Martin Hill

Fredric Martin Hill

Feb 3, 2021

Fredric Martin Hill, age 83, of Pensacola, passed away at his residence on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. He was born in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana in 1938 to the late Wetzel and Georgia  Blankenship Hill. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by a sister-in-law, Deloris L. Hill, and a brother-in-law, James H. Woods.

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Bill Vinzant

Bill Vinzant

Feb 2, 2021

George William "Bill" Vinzant, Jr., 78, of Pensacola, FL passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2021.

Bill was the first born of 6 children to George and Marie Vinzant in Laurel, MS on January 8, 1943. After his graduation at Ellisville High School, Bill attended Jones County Junior College receiving an associate degree. He was hired by a...

Marion Edwina Pilcher

Marion Edwina Pilcher

Feb 2, 2021

Marion Edwina Pilcher, 86, passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2021.

Marion was born on September 20, 1934 in New Orleans, LA and moved to Pensacola in 1948 where she graduated from Pensacola High School and Sacred Heart School of Nursing. She worked for 25 years in the Orthopedic Department at the Medical Center Clinic. Marion was a...

Harry E. Flanders, Jr.

Harry E. Flanders, Jr.

Feb 1, 2021

Harry Edward "Bo" Flanders, of Pensacola, Florida passed away on Monday, February 1, 2021, at the age of 80. After a long struggle with Alzheimer's and complications due to COVID-19, Bo died peacefully with his wife of 54 years, Sue Flanders, and their children by his side.

Bo was born in Swainsboro, Georgia on August 11, 1940,...

Douglas Montgomery Heidel

Douglas Montgomery Heidel

Jan 29, 2021

Douglas Montgomery Heidel died peacefully, surrounded by his loving family on January 29, 2021

Born December 16, 1955 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and grew up in Lovington, New Mexico

Doug joined the Navy at the age of 17 and spent 25 years serving his country.  He was a Navy Chief, Corpsman specializing in Urology. He...

J.P. Jones

J.P. Jones

Jan 29, 2021

John Paul "J.P." Jones, 93, of Gulf Breeze, FL, passed from this life on Friday, January 29, 2021.

He was born on January 11, 1928, in Phil Campbell, AL, to John and Martha Jones. After graduating from Phil Campbell High School in 1945, J.P. enlisted in the Navy. He was accepted into the "Flying Midshipmen" flight training...

James Robert Steel, Jr.

James Robert Steel, Jr.

Jan 28, 2021

CMDR James R. Steel, Jr. ("Jim") died peacefully in Pensacola, FL on Thursday, January 28, 2021. He was 77 years old.

Jim was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 12, 1944 to James and Bernadine Steel, both Army Air Corps Officers. His mother was a supply officer and his father was a P-51 pilot serving in Pakistan....

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