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BELAVIC, George – Funeral services for George BELAVIC of Sarasota will be held Thursday at 3pm at the Robarts Shannon Chapel. Rev. Roy B. JOHNSTON of First Christian Church will officiate. Interment will be in Sarasota Memorial Park. Robarts Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 17 Apr 1952, page 9.]
BOICE, Delancey – 62, a winter resident at the Hotel Sarasota for the past three years, died last Saturday in New York City while returning to his home in Churchville, N.Y. Mr. BOICE was a breeder and exporter of thoroughbred cattle. He is survived by one son, Ormond, of Miami, Fla. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 15 May 1952, page 10 | View FamilySearch Family Tree profile]
BOND, Marjorie Maxwell – Funeral services for Marjorie Maxwell BOND, a winter resident from Richmond, Maine, will be held a later date. Leslie F. Roberts Funeral Home, Richmond, Maine, will be in charge of interment. Interment will be in Maxwell Cemetery, Bowdoinham, Maine. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 24 April 1952, page 4].
CARMICHAEL, Mrs. Elizabeth THURSTON - a native Key Wester, daughter of the late Mr. Otis THURSTON, died in Sarasota, Florida, on February 2, 1953. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, Mr. Fred CARMICHAEL of Sarasota; one brother, Mr. Otis R. THURSTON; Key West, five nieces, seven nephews, one sister-in-law, two grandnieces and five grandnephews. [Source: Key West Citizen newspaper (Key West, FL), 07 Feb 1953, page 8.]
CONNOLLY, Mary Virginia – Funeral services for Mary Virginia CONNOLLY of Sarasota will be held Thursday at 2pm at the Robarts Shannon Chapel. Rev. Roy B. JOHNSTON of First Christian Church will officiate. Interment will be in Sarasota Memorial Park. Please omit flowers. Robarts Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 17 Apr 1952, page 9].
DALTON, Julia B. – a resident of Venice since 1922, Julia B. DALTON, 70, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. She came here from Miles City, Montana. Survivors include her husband, Floyd, a son, Fred B. DALTON, U.S. Merchant Marine; a daughter, Mrs. Harry SJOBLOM, Venice, a brother, Carlisle BROCK, Clarksdale, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Avie SMITH, West Point, Miss.
Also on the same page: Funeral services for Julia Brock Dalton of Groveland Avenue, Venice, Florida, will be held Friday at 2pm at the Robarts-Shannon Chapel of Venice. Rev. G.E. GRADEN of Venice-Nokomis Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will be in Nokomis Cemetery. Pallbearers will be George HIGEL, H.S. BOWDEN, Doug ARNALL, Larry BLACK, Frank RAEBURN, J.T. BLALOCK. Robarts Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 14 May 1952, page 3. | View FamilySearch Family Tree profile.]
GARBER, Mildred (Mrs.) – Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred GARBER of Curwood’s Cottages, Englewood, Fla., will be held Monday at the Heaton-Bowman Funeral Home, St. Joseph, Mo. Interment will be in Mount Auburn Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 9 May 1952, page 2.]
GEPPINGER, Frances F. (Mrs.) – 63, winter visitor of Sarasota from Blue Island, Ill., died Tuesday night at the Sarasota Hospital. She is survived by her husband Earl H. GEPPINGER; one son, Carl E. GEPPINGER; one brother, Martin L. HUFFMAN, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Earl PRESSNELL, of Beaver Dam Lake, Indiana and Mrs. Roy CARLSON, of Miami.
Also on the same page: Funeral sevices for Frances F. GEPPINGER of Sarasota Trailer Park, Sarasota, will be held Thursday at 10:00am at the Robarts-Shannon Chapel. Rev. O.E. RICE of First Methodist Church will officiate. Order of Eastern Star will participate in the chapel. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 15 May 1952, page 10 | View FamilySearch Family Tree profile.]
GORMAND, Joseph J.– a resident of Sarasota since November, died here Wednesday. A retired New York Central Railroad employee, GORMAND was a member of the Catholic Church. Survivors include two step-children, Mrs. George PLUMMER of Sarasota and Gustave DELBAUVE of Indianapolis, Ind.
Funeral services for Mr. Joseph J. GORMAND of Sarasota, will be held later next week at the Moore Peace Chapel, Indianapolis, Ind. Interment will be in Anderson, Indiana. Thacker & Van Gilder will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 8 May 1952, page 6.]
HAMILTON, Charles Benedict – Funeral services for Charles Benedict HAMILTON of Sarasota, will be held Saturday morning at William Schlemm, Inc. Funeral Home, Jersey City, N.J. Interment will be in St. Catherine Cemetery, Seagirt, N.J. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 17 Apr 1952, page 9].
HORKA, Helen Mittermeyer (Mrs.) – daughter of Mrs. Frances MITTERMEYER of Sarasota, died Monday at her home in Ferry Heights, New Jersey. She was the wife of Archie HORKA, captain of the United States Line Ship, American Scout. She was born in New York, and was a member of the Paterson Eastern Star and the All Saints Episcopal Church of Glen Rock, N.J. For 25 years she was associated with her mother in operating the Mittermeyer Nursey in Arcola, N.J. Besides her husband, Mrs. HORKA is survived by her mother and one son, David, of Fair Lawn, N.J. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 9 May 1952, page 3. | View FamilySearch Family Tree profile.]
HURLEY, William R. (Dr.) – Funeral services for Dr. William R. HURLEY of 313 Julia St., will be held from the Sweeney Funeral Home, Quincy, Mass. Interment will be in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery. Thacker & Von Gilder Funeral Home will be in charge of local arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 28 Apr 1952, page 6.]
JONES, Nathan – Funeral services for Nathan JONES of 416 West 41st Street, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Roberts-Shannon Chapel. Rev. Bennett F. HALL, minister of Bay Haven Baptist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Sarasota Memorial Park cemetery. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 28 Apr 1952, page 6.]
KING, Joseph Madison – ten-year old negro boy, was struck and instantly killed about 7 o’clock last night by a box car being switched on the Seaboard Air Line tracks at Twenty-third street near the Bryson Paving company. The boy had been returning from work in the novelty shop of the Howard Lumber company and ran in front of the switch engine. The engine had just “thrown” a car on another track running parallel and the boy could not have seen this coming according to witnesses of the accident. He was struck and the wheels went over the center of his body, severing it in halves. Remains of the boy were taken to Thacker and Van Gilder, morticians, where they will be held pending funeral arrangements to be made by the parents, Joe and Mary KING of Fifteenth street at Orange Avenue. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 14 Oct 1925.]
KRETZ, Emile – Funeral services for Mrs. Emile KRETZ of Venice, Florida, were held Thursday at 2:0 pm at the Robarts-Shannon Chapel in Venice. Rev. Luther F. WILLER, minister of Concordia-Lutheran Church, officiated. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 9 May 1952, page 2.]
LAWHON, Juanita - Aged two years, falls in Whitaker Bayou and Drowns. The body of little Juanita LAHHON[sic], two-year-old daughter of L.D. LAWHON of North Riverdale Park is resting in the funeral parlors of Thacker and Van Gilder when it will be taken Saturday for burial. The baby girl and her three-year-old brother, Leon, and another small child were playing on the edge of the Whitaker bayou early yesterday afternoon when the Lawhon children fell into the shallow water of the bayour. The little boy managed to crawl out of the water and rushed to his home about a quarter of a mile away to inform his mother. The mother with a score of neighbors arrived at the waters edge about twenty minutes later and the babe was taken from the water unconscious. She was rushed to the Halton Hospital by A.J. STEPHENS and there a pulmonator was used for more than a half an hour in a futile effort to revive the child. Mr. LAWHON, who conducts a soft drink emporium on Central Avenue, came to this city about a year a half ago from Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10 Oct 1925, page 1.]
LAWHON, Juanita - Funeral services for Baby Juanita LAWHON will be held from the former home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.D.LAWHON in Broodsville, Florida, this morning. The two year old child was drowned in Whitaker Bayou while playing with her little brother early Friday afternoon. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11 Oct 1925, page 12.]
LEVY, Jacob W. – “Will Close Today for Levy Funeral.” On account of the sudden death of Jacob W. LEVY here Saturday the Howard Lumber Company associated with the firm of Levy, Kaye and Levy, will be closed from 2 until 6 o’clock today. Masonic funeral services for Mr. LEVY will be held in the mortuary chapel of Thacker and Van Gilder at 5:30 o’clock today, following which the body is to be removed to New York city for burial. Mrs. LEVY and Mr. and Mrs. KAYE will accompany the body to New York. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 26 October 1925, page 5]
MERSEREAU, Gage W. – 83, a retired railroad engineer who had spent 27 winters in Sarasota, died yesterday. His home was at 418 Fortieth Street. He is survived by a son, Willard H. MERSEREAU, Arlington, Mass., two sisters of Rumford, Me., three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 14 May 1952, page 3. | View FamilySearch FamilyTree profile.]
MYERS, Sarah Antoinetta – Funeral services for Sarah Antoinetta MYERS of Sarasota will be held Tuesday at 3:00 at the White Funeral Home, Warren, Ohio. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Warren, Ohio. Robarts Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 17 Apr 1952, page 9 | View FamilySearch Family Tree profile.]
NIKOLOFF, Mike – Funeral services for Mike NIKOLOFF of 520 North Citrus, will be held later in Kent, Ohio. Interment will be in Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent. Roberts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 28 Apr 1952, page 6.]
PRANGE, Clarence Frederick – Funeral services for Clarence Frederick PRANGE will be held Saturday at 2 pm at the Royster-Askin Mortuary. Rev. Darius of Zions Evangelical will officiate. Interment will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Robarts Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 17 Apr 1952, page 9].
SEXTON, Mrs. Berta - PENSACOLA, FL, Oct. 9. Reports reached here today that G.G. BARBER, shot and killed Mrs. Berta SEXTON, his divorced wife, at Blounstown yesterday. Sheriff CLARK, refused any information regarding the shooting to the Pensacola Journal. Sheriff CLARK was one of the five prominent Calhoun county men who faced trial in United States district court last May on peonage charges. Information received here was that a posse was searching for BARBER. He was reported to have shot his former wife when she refused his attentions and then fled to a swamp. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10 Oct 1925, page 1.]
WARNER, Earl - Earl WARNER, Sarasota hotel man, and a young woman, thought to have been a Miss RILEY, also of this city, were instantly killed when the Lincoln coupe in which they were riding struck an Atlantic Coast Line freight train at the Ruskin crossing, on the Tamiami trail, about 1 o’clock this morning. Identification of Mr. Warner is complete, but that of the young woman, said to have been a blonde, was indefinite. The bodies were carried to a Tampa mortician to be prepared for burial. [Read more in the source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 13 Oct 1925, page 1.]
WHITFIELD, Edwin Bates (Mrs.) – Funeral services for Mrs. Edwin Bates WHITFIELD of 440 West, 19th St., will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home. Rev. John S. HAIGHT, minister of Episcopal Church, will officiate. Please omit flowers. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 28 Apr 1952, page 6.]
WILLS, K.J. (Mrs.) – County Coroner ALBRITTON will be asked by relatives to investigate the death of Mrs. K.J. WILLIS, 18-year-old-bride, who died in Emergency hospital at 8 o’clock Monday morning as a result of burns received when she poured what is believed to have been gasoline into an oil stove in her tent in Parkers Court last Wednesday. According to the husband, a driver for the Bailey Transfer Co., his wife had told him while she was lying suffering from the burns in Halton hospital that she had asked John A. Dougherty, proprietor of the West Side Grocery, for some kerosene to burn in her store the day before the explosion which resulted in her death. Mrs. WILLIS is said to have told her husband and a brother-in-law, G.W. BOZEMAN, that the grocer had given her gasoline instead of kerosene. [Read the rest of the article: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 27 October 1925, page 1]
WOODRUFF, James Eugene – Funeral services for James Eugene WOODRUFF of Venice, will be held Friday at 2:00pm at the Robarts-Shannon Chapel, Venice. Rev. Graden of Nokomis Methodist Church will officiate. Robarts-Shannon Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. [Source: Sarasota Journal, 24 April 1952, page 4].