All Obituaries

Claire Tucker Ennis, age ninety-four, passed way December 7, 2018. Claire was born on May 26, 1924 in Jacksonville to Jane and Finley Tucker of that city. She graduated from Bartram School in 1941 and attended Arlington Hall Junior College in Virginia. She married Bill Ennis, her husband of seventy-five years, on January 23, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, where Bill had received his pilot’s wings. Claire was active in her church, teaching Sunday school for many years at Ortega Methodist...

Klara Margit Moffitt was called to heaven to be with God and deceased family while sleeping peacefully at home on December 11, 2018. She was born in Budapest, Hungary and came to Jacksonville Beach with her parents in 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution. She graduated from Fletcher High School in 1958. Klara received a scholarship to study the fine arts at FSU. For over 40 years, she was a cosmetologist and owned several salons named "Klara's Place for Hair" throughout the...

Evan Laurence Kostick passed away December 8, 2018. He was born August 26, 1930 in London, England.  He grew up in Dublin, Ireland where he developed his passion for learning and love of all things Irish.  After graduating from Trinity College School of Medicine he pursued a career in surgery.  He met his wife Kathleen on Christmas Eve 1955 and they were married in Nottingham, England April 1, 1956.  Their life together took them from Ireland to West Africa, to Canada and...

Florence McCulley Moon, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, passed away peacefully at her home at the age of 90 on Wednesday evening Nov. 21, 2018. Florence was born in Jacksonville on April 5, 1928 and resided in Jacksonville Beach since 1950. Florence was a member of the Eastern Star, she enjoyed raising her children and enjoyed many generations of families, kids and friends, all whom knew and loved her as Mama Moon. Her 4 children, John Robert Moon, Jr., Richard Lee Moon, Daniel Ray Moon...

Kenneth L. Gossett, 81, passed away December 10, 2018. He was born May 2, 1937, in Indianapolis, IN. He spent his childhood in Indiana, but Pittsburgh was his home and where he raised his family until he retired to Jacksonville Beach in 2006. Ken was a proud graduate of Purdue University, where he studied electrical engineering, and the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a master’s of business administration. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a navigator on a frigate that...

Violet M. DeFreitas of Jacksonville, Florida passed away peacefully at HarborChase Assisted Living at the age of 92 on December 9, 2018.  Violet was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Amos and Leopoldina Pacheco on September 25, 1926. The family immigrated to her father’s birthplace in St. Michael, Portugal at the age of three where she grew up and married Gil DeFreitas. Soon after they were married, they immigrated to Harrison, NY where she enjoyed raising her children and...

Martha G. Crawford, 85, passed away on December 6, 2018.  Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 in the Chapel of Quinn-Shalz Family Funeral Home. 

JoAnn Virginia Bonkoski, of Jacksonville, Florida passed away peacefully at Anna and Donald Hospice Center at the age of 75 on Sunday, November 25, 2018.  JoAnn was born in St. Louis, MO to Hugo and Virginia Kramme on May 20, 1943.  JoAnn was raised in Maplewood, MO where she attended schools in the Maplewood/Richmond Heights School District.  JoAnn loved music, so it was no surprised that she wanted to take up an instrument and play in the school bands. She played the flute....

Janet Tinetta Grant passed away November 25, 2018 after a courageous battle with cancer.  She was born November 25, 1952 in Atlantic Beach FL.  Janet attended 144 Jacksonville Beach Elementary and Fletcher Sr. High School where she was a member of the marching band and track team. Janet was a graduate of Massey Business College with an Associate’s degree in Business Administration. Janet retired from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida after 35 years as the first African...

Genevieve R. Griffin, neé Rouby, was born January 5, 1928, in Tunis, Tunisia, where her parents ran a school for the children of French ex-patriots. She enjoyed growing up in Tunisia, and considered herself more of an ex-pat “Pied Noir” than “French.” She loved to regale everyone with tales of her youth in the French colony, often sharing photos of the desert oasis and Roman-era pool where she and her friends swam and picnicked. Living in North Africa in the...