Obituaries

Nov 13, 2016

Carolyn Papania Bove, 87, of Jacksonville, Florida, passed away peacefully on November 13, 2016. She was born and raised in Towson, Maryland, nurtured her family in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA and enjoyed senior living in Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida.  She is survived by her husband Gabriel M. Bove, Sr. of nearly 60 years; her children, Gabriel M. Bove,...

Nov 6, 2016

Rylan McKinley Delmundo entered this world May 15, 2016 and earned her angel wings on November 6, 2016. Heaven’s gain was our loss when our angel was called by our Lord. Our Princess was a warrior with more strength imaginable in one tiny body. She was a spitfire with spunk and sass. Above all, she was an absolute beauty....

Nov 5, 2016

Buryldine “Dean” Decker went home to her Heavenly Father Saturday, November 5, 2016. She was born September 2, 1941 in Ft. White, Florida where she grew up and graduated from Ft. White High School. She was a longtime resident of Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Dean was a devoted member of Ponte Vedra United Methodist Church and volunteered...

Nov 4, 2016

Ida M. McElroy, 87, passed away Nov. 4, 2016.

Ida was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She is survived by her son, Thomas, Jr. (Debra); grandchildren, Dana (Jason), Steven (Jennifer) and David (Laura); great grandchildren, Lily, Madeline, Colin, Addie, Ella and Sydney; sister, Mary; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband,...

Nov 2, 2016

Betty Alexander, 90 passed away November 2, 2016. She was born March 5, 1926 in Springfield, Illinois. After living in Kearny, New Jersey she moved to Florida and spent the past 10 years at Cypress Village independent living.

Betty was a member of the United States Cadet nurse corps during WWII. She was a retired registered nurse....

Oct 29, 2016

Donald “Wade” Goodwin, 39, passed away suddenly October 29, 2016. He was born Nov. 8, 1976 in Gadsden, AL. He proudly served our country in the US Navy.

Wade received his BS in Psychology from UNF and was currently working on his Master’s in Criminal Justice. He was employed at Baymeadow’s Moving and Storage. Wade’s passion was...

Oct 28, 2016

THE Mr. Albert Eldon Fabian, 97, a consummate Southern gentlemen, passed away on October 28, 2016 at home.  He was born on May 31, 1919 to Herbert and Julia Fabian, in Orangeburg, SC where he lived until age 12, when his family moved to Atlanta, GA.   Al was the seventh of nine children.

Mr. Fabian graduated from the...

Oct 27, 2016

Kathleen Kennedy Kostick was born January 17, 1929 in County Wicklow, Ireland.  She developed her love of nature growing up on a farm and walking the hills.  She moved to Dublin to pursue a career in nursing specializing as a mid-wife.  Here she met her husband, Dr. Evan Kostick and married in Nottingham, England April 1, 1956.  They lived...

Oct 26, 2016

Retired US Navy Capt. Laurence J. Gionet, Jr. of Leesburg, FL passed away on October 26, 2016 at the age of 73. He was born in Worcester, Mass, but considered Jacksonville Beach, Florida his hometown. He graduated from Fletcher High School and Catawba College. He navigated a wonderful 31 year career in the United States Navy. He enjoyed playing golf and...

Oct 26, 2016

Capt. John V. Horton, 71, USN-Ret., whose distinguished 28-year Navy Intelligence career took him from the Vietnam War through Desert Storm and beyond, died of cancer on Oct. 26, 2016 in the Cypress Village Health Center, Jacksonville.

Capt. Horton had lived fulltime in Neptune Beach with his wife Kathleen (Kathy) since his September 1996 Navy retirement. For...

Oct 26, 2016

Walter P. Tokarz, a longtime resident of Jacksonville, FL passed away on October 26, 2016. Walter left this world to meet his Lord and to once again see the love of his life, Sarah “Sally” Horton Tokarz, his wife of 54 years (deceased 1998).

Walter was born July 6, 1923 in Taunton, MA to John and Mary...

Oct 23, 2016

Ruth Daintree Gordon Browne Evans passed away October 23, 2016. She was born March 26, 1920 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to English parents Frederick and Teresa Daintree.

Ruth graduated from the British Hospital Nursing School of Argentina, then went to England and became a Q.A. (Imperial Military Nursing Service) during World War II. In 1943 she married...

Oct 22, 2016

John “Jack” Vincent Dinan, Jr. from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida passed away peacefully on October 22, 2016 at the age of 85 surrounded by his family.

Jack was born in the Bronx, NY on October 9, 1931 to Anna Maria and John Vincent Dinan Sr.  The family, along with Jack’s older brother Robert, soon moved to Stony...

Oct 22, 2016

Kathleen Foley passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2016. She grew up in Long Beach, New York. She attended Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY and after graduation she taught school in Long Beach. In 1964 she married Sam Foley. They have one son, Sam who she cherished with great pride and joy. Sam and his wife Diane gave Kathy...

Oct 18, 2016

Henry S. Carden Jr., 91, passed away October 18, 2016. He was born July 28, 1925 in Stanley, KY; grew up in Louisville, KY and retired to Florida in November 2009. Henry was a proud member of the US Army Air Corps serving as a crewmember of a B-24 Liberator bomber whose squadron saw action in the India/China theater...

Oct 17, 2016

Kevin M. Joseph, born October 8, 1956, in Miami, FL, was called home to the Lord on October 17, 2016. Kevin graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S. degree in biology and from Florida International University with a BSN, RN. He pursued his nursing profession working at hospitals in the Houston, TX area, where he lived...

Oct 15, 2016

Alice C. Gessner, 91, passed away October 15, 2016. She was born January 3, 1925 in Shanghai, China.

She received her masters degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, worked and raised her family in Glen Ridge, NJ before retiring to Silver Spring, MD. She moved to Jacksonville, FL in 2013.

Alice is...

Oct 15, 2016

William (Bill) Kolodinsky of Ponte Vedra Beach passed away on October 15, 2016 at age 87. He was born in New Jersey to Hungarian immigrant parents who ran a small tailor shop. The first of his family to attend college, Bill was a basketball scholarship athlete at Seton Hall University before transferring to Rutgers University where he obtained a...

Oct 14, 2016

Steven Peeters, 55, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Oct. 14, 2016. He was born Oct. 22, 1960 in Queens, NY. He received his BS degree from Bryant Univ. and later his MBA in Finance from the Univ. of Connecticut.

His career started in CT with Hartford Financial Services. He later went to...

Oct 14, 2016

Barbara R. Freeman, 62, wife of the late Daniel Freeman, daughter of Bobby and Bernice Roop of Virgina, passed away October 14, 2016. She was born November 18, 1953 in Sanford, North Carolina.

She is survived by her son, Tim Lytton (Jessica); daughter, Sherry; brothers, Wilbur Oldham and Tommy Roop; sister, Robin Spinaci (Rich) of Connecticut; several...