Marion County Obituaries

Obituaries from Ocala Star Banner

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Friday, February 22, 1991

REDDICK -- Booker T. Brown, 80, a retired farmer, died Feb. 17, 1991.

OCALA -- Angelina N. Colon, 76, a housewife, died Feb. 20, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

REDDICK -- Harold Davis, 90, a retired farmer, died Feb. 14, 1991, at Shands Hospital.

OCALA -- L.C. Dempsey, 51, a truck driver, died Feb. 19, 1991.

OCALA -- Bert P. Lakes, 91, a carpenter, died Feb. 19, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Josie Roxie Parker, 89, a homemaker, died Feb. 21, 1991, at Oakhurst Manor Convalescent Center.

OCALA -- Ruth Hanick Pressley, 28, a clerk at the Barnett Bank in Ocala, died Feb. 18, 1991, in Gainesville.

MICANOPY -- Gregory Russell, 31, a laborer, died Feb. 12, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

OCALA -- Effie "Cookie" Shelton, 95, a housewife, died Feb. 20, 1991, at home.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Saturday, February 23, 1991

WILDWOOD -- Bill Beningo, 63, a forklift driver in the automotive manufacturing industry, died Feb. 21, 1991, at Leesburg Regional Medical Center.

HERNANDO -- Ronald Evert Bohres, 64, a retired plasterer, died Feb. 22, 1991, in Inverness.

LACROSSE, Wis. -- Terry E. Brookins, 41, a meat cutter, died Feb. 12, 1991.

OCALA -- Lois Ann Hamilton, 58, a receptionist for the law firm of Tucker and Associates of Ocala, died Feb. 22, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

MIAMI -- The Rev. Joseph Jones, 76, a retired minister, died Feb. 13, 1991, at Cedar Hospital.

OCALA -- Alta E. Moses, 71, a homemaker, died Feb. 21, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- William H. Ramsey Jr., 66, a grocery store owner, died Feb. 22, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

BELLEVIEW -- Grant Roberts, 69, a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service, died Feb. 21, 1991.

WAHOO -- Frank Roesel, 85, retired as a division manager after 45 years of service with Florida Power Corp., died Feb. 22, 1991, at Leesburg Regional Medical Center.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Blanche Marie Simonds, 81, a visitor to Inverness from Westminster, died Feb. 21, 1991, in Inverness.

OCALA -- Elmo C. Toms, 79, a retired foreman for building material, died Feb. 22, 1991, at home.

DUNNELLON -- Henry M. Wendrycki, 76, a truck driver for a distributor of baked goods, died Feb. 22, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Sunday, February 24, 1991

OCALA -- William J. Devine, 65, a retired maintenance engineer with the state of New York, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 1991 at his residence in Ocala.

WILDWOOD -- Rose B. Pogue, 85, a homemaker, died Friday, Feb. 22, 1991 at her residence in Wildwood.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Monday, February 25, 1991

OCALA -- Clark D. Artman, Jr., 69, a former mayor of Belleview, died Feb. 23, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

OCALA -- Margaret Mary Bushon, 64, a retired cashier, died Feb. 23, 1991, at her residence.

DUNNELLON -- Rudolph J.A. Marinaro, Jr., 54, died Feb. 21, 1991

OCALA -- Robert J. Schuler, 48, a machinist, died Feb. 20, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

TAMPA -- Eugene A. Thomas, 46, a former deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Department, died Feb. 23, 1991, in Tampa.

COTTON PLANT -- Valerie M. Ware, 76, homemaker, died Feb. 24, 1991, at her residence after a lengthy illness.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Tuesday, February 26, 1991

EUSTIS -- Viola Andersen, 85, homemaker, died Feb. 22, 1991

DUNNELLON -- William Richard Black, 85, a retired operations manager for Exxon Corp., died Feb. 24, 1991, at Citrus Memorial Hospital.

MICANOPY -- Henry Martin Chitty Jr., 72, co-owner of Star-Dust Ranch in Wacahoota and former co-owner of H.M. Chitty Co., died Feb. 23, 1991, in North Florida Regional Medical Center.

BEVERLY HILLS -- Ladislav Dejnozka, 88, a retired accountant, died Feb. 24, 1991, in Inverness.

WILLISTON -- Leola P. Dixon, 95, a retired school teacher for the Suwannee County School System, died Feb. 24, 1991.

OCALA -- Peter Joseph Margaritondo, 72, a welder, died Feb. 24, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

DUNNELLON -- Rudolph J.A. Marinaro Jr., 54, a maintenance man at Memorial Gardens, Beverly Hills, died Feb. 21, 1991.

AVON PARK -- Elizabeth M. Riopelle, 85, homemaker, died Feb. 23, 1991, at Memorial Hospital in Avon Park.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Wednesday, February 27, 1991

FORT McCOY -- Charles F. Camden, 44, a musician, died Feb. 25, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Joseph W. Cappel Jr., 53, a sales representative for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Ocala office, died Feb. 25, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

OCALA -- Faye C. Ferguson, 82, worked 28 years with the Cleveland Girl Scout Council and five years at BancOhio, Cleveland, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

HERNANDO -- Dorothy Mae Maier, 66, a retired reporter with McGraw Hill Publishing, died Feb. 23, 1991, at home.

BEVERLY HILLS -- Adolf Schmitt, 87, a retired meat cutter, died Feb. 23, 1991, at home.

SUMMERFIELD -- Charles H. Spencer, 73, a retired tile and marble mechanic with Sterns & Bergstrom Inc. in Syracuse, N.Y., died Feb. 25, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Milton Alonzo Weekley, 62, a hairdresser and cosmetologist, died Feb. 23, 1991, in Gainesville.

OCALA -- Louise Andrews Zant, 80, a teacher with the Marion County School System for 30 years, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - Thursday, February 28, 1991

OCALA -- Illinoise Kirby Addison, 77, a retired lunchroon manager, died Feb. 23, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

INVERNESS -- Evamay Davis Beckner, 72, a retired social worker with the state of West Virginia, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Bill Bodde, 83, a retired farmer, died Feb. 27, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- W. Roy Cheek, 84, a retired statistician for Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., died Feb. 26, 1991, at Oakhurst Manor Convalescent Center.

OCALA -- Florence Cottrell, 97, a homemaker, died Feb. 27, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Amelia Toombs Counts, 80, a homemaker, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Gus A. DeBrocq, 71, former owner/operator of Rusty's Fish Camp, Tavernier Creek, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

BROOKSVILLE -- Florence Grace Donnelly, 86, a retired striper with Roadmaster Bicycle, died Feb. 26, 1991.

OCALA -- Willard G. Duffey, 75, a retired Marion County school bus driver, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

BELLEVIEW -- Warren Ellsworth Griffin, 76, a carpenter, died Feb. 26, 1991

OCALA -- Robert J. Harrington, 72, retired from the U.S. Air Force, died Feb. 27, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

SILVER SPRINGS -- Margaret L. Meehan, 64, a homemaker, died Feb. 26, 1991, at home.

TALLAHASSEE -- Arabella Sandor Klopfer, 87, a former resident of Silver Springs, died Feb. 26, 1991

OCALA -- Bennie Peacock, 57, a laborer, died Feb. 24, 1991, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

GAINESVILLE -- Murray J. Proctor, 58, manager of the downtown parking garage in Gainesville, died Feb. 20, 1991.

SPRINGFIELD, Pa. -- Hester A. Turner, 91, died Feb. 21, 1991, in Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Pa.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Alice Riddick Updike, 93, a former resident of Ocala, died Feb. 19, 1991, at her duaghter's home in Portland.

Extracted by Laverne Tornow