Marion County Obituaries

Obituaries from Ocala Star Banner

Ocala Star-Banner (FL)-January 1, 1992

MULBERRY -- Hilda Mae Ash, 74, a housewife, died Dec. 30, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Clarence Raymond Bardo, 75, a member of quality control at Bell and Howell Optical Manufacturing, died Dec. 28, 1991, at Shands Hospital.

OCALA -- Franklin Robert Becker, 84, a 1967 retiree from the New York Telephone Co., died Dec. 29, 1991, at home.

SUMMERFIELD -- William C. Breeden, 68, a retired welder, died Dec. 29, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

OCALA -- Charlie Broom, 80, a tailor, died Dec. 27, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

HERNANDO -- Faye Etta Howard, 71, died Dec. 30, 1991, in Crystal River.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Donald Gamron Kesler, 64, retired from the Milwaukee Railroad and owner/operator of Jeri-Don Produce, died Dec. 29, 1991, in Inverness.

OCALA -- Joy Jones Long, 52, receptionist for Associated Land Title Group of Ocala, died Dec. 31, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Dallas William Morgan, 81, a retired operating engineer for Union Local 66 in Monroeville, Pa., died Dec. 31, 1991, at home.

OCALA -- Maria A. Rausch, 88, a homemaker, died Dec. 30, 1991, in Ocala.

OCALA -- John M. Sieber, 79, a labor negotiator with the Wisconsin City government, died Dec. 29, 1991, in Niceville.

HOMOSASSA -- Robert E. VanGordon, 66, a retired truck driver, died Dec. 30, 1991, in Crystal River.

BELLEVIEW -- Nita Lucile Walker, 91, a homemaker, died Dec. 30, 1991, at Palm Gardens Nursing Center in Orlando.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL)-January 2, 1992

REDDICK -- Lonnie Brown Sr., a corrections officer for the state of Florida, died Dec. 26, 1991 at his home in Reddick.

OCALA -- Mable Ferrante, 59, a waitress, Died Dec. 31, 1991 at Marion Community Hospital.

TALLAHASSEE -- Jonathan R. Krell, 15, a student at Rickards High School, died of cancer Dec. 31, 1991 at Shands Hospital in Gainesville.

SUMMERFIELD -- James Lester Propes, 60, a security guard in Nashville, Tenn, died Monday, Dec. 30, 1991 in Summerfield.

BELLEVIEW -- Willie Mae Reed, 87, a homemaker, died Dec. 29, 1991 at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

INVERNESS -- Willie May Washer, 95, Inverness, died Jan. 1, 1992 in Inverness.

BELLEVIEW -- Sophia Wolter, 84, Belleview, a retired owner and operator of the L&S Ranch Tavern, Died Dec. 31, 1991 at her residence.

Ocala Star-Banner (FL)-January 3, 1992

ROLLING GREENS -- Cecilia Elizabeth Bennett, 71, a bank teller, died Jan. 1, 1992, at home.

ANTHONY -- Alice Bing, 51, a laborer, died Dec. 31, 1991, a Munroe Regional Medical Center.

ANTHONY -- Otis Burch, 58, a laborer, died Dec. 26, 1991, at home.

ANGIERN, N.C. -- Harry A. Clark, 75, a retired foreman for the Weyerhaeuser Corp. of Longview, Wash., died Dec. 31, 1991, in Benson, N.C.

SILVER SPRINGS -- Marcella P. DuBuque, 76, a homemaker, died Dec. 31, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

OCALA -- Mable Ferrante, 59, a waitress, died Dec. 31, 1991, at Marion Community Hospital.

ZEPHYRHILLS -- Florence Fett, 86, formerly of Dunnellon, died Jan. 1, 1992, in Zephyrhills.

OCALA -- Margaret Mary McGean, 77, editor of a hospital newsletter, died Jan. 2, 1992, in Ocala.

WILDWOOD -- Luther Leroy Murray, 60, retired from the U.S. Air Force, died Dec. 31, 1991.

SPARR -- Mercetus Norman, 83, a homemaker, died Dec. 11, 1991, in Fort Lauderdale.

BELLEVIEW -- Fred R. Pattillo, 69, retired resource manager for R.J. Oil Co. Inc. in Terre Haute, Ind., died Dec. 31, 1991, at home.

LAKES AND MEADOWS -- Charles J. Thompson Sr., 65, a retired automobile mechanic, died Jan. 1, 1992, in Ocala.

OCALA -- Willie Thomas Jr., 27, a laborer, died Dec. 23, 1991, in Alachua County.

BELLEVIEW -- Harry G. Tybinka, 74, a quality control specialist for the federal government, died Jan. 1, 1992, at Ocala Health Care Center.

DUNNELLON -- Thomas Joseph Weber, 50, an electrician, died Jan. 1, 1992, at Alachua General Hospital.

WILDWOOD -- Howard F. Whitten, 82, a Citrus contractor for A.S. Herlong Co., died Dec. 30, 1991.

JANUARY 4 MISSING

Ocala Star-Banner (FL)-January 5, 1992

DUNNELLON -- Roger Eugene Durbin, 64, retired warehouseman, died Jan. 3, 1992, at home.

DUNNELLON -- Burvil D. Kincaid, 81, retired from the Illinois Division of Forestry, died Jan. 3, 1992, in Crystal River.

HOMOSASSA -- Ernest Albert Manfredi Jr., 66, retired electrician with Florida Power, died Jan. 3, 1992, at home.

JACKSONVILLE -- Leona Martin, 85, died Jan. 3, 1992, in a Jacksonville hospital.

BEVERLY HILLS -- Bernard L. McKinnon, 67, retired pressman for the Detroit Free Press and Times, died Jan. 4, 1992, at home.

APOPKA -- Gladys Olive Randall, 83, homemaker, died Jan. 3, 1992, at Florida Living Nursing Center, Apopka.

OCALA -- Richard L. Vardy, 79, retired vice president of B&W Construction Co., died Jan. 3, 1992, in Ocala.

JANUARY 6 MISSING

Ocala Star-Banner (FL)-January 7, 1992

OCALA -- Walter W. Bench, 83, a retired plant operator for Union Carbide, died Jan. 6, 1992 at Marion Community Hospital.

WILLISTON -- Berry Corbin, 77, died Jan. 5, 1992 at Alachua General Hospital in Gainesville.

OCALA -- Ada M. Fagin, 80, retired from Mayfield Neurological Institute, Cincinnati, died Jan. 4, 1992 at Chambrel at Pinecastle.

SUMMERFIELD -- Michael N. Halajcsik Jr., 83, an insulator for Standard Oil Co., died Jan. 5, 1992 at his residence.

OCALA -- Shirley M. Render, 57, of Ocala, died Jan. 5, 1992, at Munroe Regional Medical Center.

Extracted by Laverne Tornow