Obituaries
Austin Edward Montgomery
September 26, 2016
Austin passed away peacefully on September 26, 2016 in the Moosehaven Life Care Center at the age of 88. He was born on December 22, 1927 in Galva, Iowa to parents William and Maud Montgomery December 22, 1927 in Galva, Iowa. Austin married Melba Schrenk the love of his life on February 27, 1998 in Reno, Nevada. They have a...
Joseph Leo Larocque, Jr.
September 24, 2016
Joseph L. Larocque Jr., age 64, died Saturday, Sept 24th, 2016, at home after a short illness. He is survived by his sisters Lucy M. Beeman and Elizabeth C. Peters and his goddaughter Melissa Abram. He also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews Joe was a army veteran of 12 years. He will be buried with...
Stephanie Macko
September 22, 2016
Stephanie Macko, 93, of Fleming Island, Florida passed away Thursday, September 22, 2016. She was born on March 5, 1923 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio to parents Charles Miller and Elizabeth Smith Miller. Mrs. Macko was of the Catholic faith and was a parishioner of St Catherine of Siena Catholic Church. Stephanie enjoyed crocheting, reading novels and St. Catherine’s “handicrafts”. She...
Geraldine "Gerri" Johnson
September 22, 2016
Gerri Johnson, 78, of Saint Augustine, Florida, formally of Mandarin, Florida Passed from this life on September 22, 2016. Gerri was born April 27, 1938, in Mandarin, Florida. She married the love of her life, William “Junior” Johnson and had two daughters, Lucinda and Melinda. Gerri worked in banking for thirty three years most of which time in senior management...
Alexander "Sandy" Rulkiewicz, Jr.
September 22, 2016
Alexander “Sandy” Rulkiewicz, Jr., 68, of Fleming Island, Florida passed away September 22, 2016. He was born on October 9, 1947 in Trenton, New Jersey to parents Alexander Rulkiewicz, Sr. and Florence Traub Rulkiewicz. Sandy served our country honorably in the U.S Army and was a Vietnam Veteran who enjoyed car racing and fishing. He cherished his time playing with...
Kelly Dawn Cummings
September 19, 2016
Kelly Dawn Hensley Cummings, 43, of Orange Park, Florida passed away on Monday, September 19th, 2016. She was born July 1, 1973 in Greensboro, NC to Kerry and Karen Hensley. She was a graduate of the University of NC at Greensboro and was employed at Bank of America. Kelly is survived by her husband, Jeffrey Cummings and son, Pacey Maine...
Maxine F. Ferrell
September 19, 2016
Maxine passed away September 19, 2016 in the Moosehaven Life Care Center at the age of 90. She was born to Wesley and Rilliah Fugate on May 12, 1926 in Fayette County, West Virginia. Maxine had two son’s Jerry and Roger and two daughters Sue and Nancy. She worked as a CNA in several nursing homes and as an in...
Robert Welzant
September 19, 2016
Robert (Bob) Welzant, 80, left this life peacefully and surrounded by his family on September 19, 2016. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 9, 1936 to Roman and Genevieve Welzant, Bob was the oldest of three children. When he was 15 years-old, he secretly enlisted in the military and was almost immediately sent to Korea where he was shot in...
Carlton Brady Sumner, Sr.
September 17, 2016
Carlton Brady Sumner, Sr., 86, of Fleming Island, Green Cove Springs, Florida died September 17, 2016. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Juanita Sumner; four sons, Carlton B. Sumner, Jr. (Rebecca) of Manassas, Virginia, James D. Sumner (Debra) of Charlotte, North Carolina, Thomas Mills Sumner of Jacksonville, Florida and William E. Sumner (Heidi) of Washington DC; daughter,...
Julia Ann Race
September 12, 2016
Julia Ann Race, 66, of Orange Park, Florida, formerly of Woodstock, Georgia and Colonie, New York passed from this life on September 12, 2016. Julia was born May 2, 1950, in Albany, New York. She married the love of her life, Douglas Vaughan Race and had three children - sons Mason and Eric, and daughter Jessica. Julia dedicated her life...
Shurley B. Fay McKenzie
September 11, 2016
Shurley B. Fay McKenzie, 83, of Jacksonville, FL passed away September 11, 2016. He was born on November 5, 1932 in Rutherford, Tennessee to the late John George and Lottie Ellen (Johnston) McKenzie. He came to the area in 1998 from Memphis, TN and was of the Christian faith. Mr. McKenzie proudly served in the United States Army during the...
Susan LaVerne Bush
September 10, 2016
Susan LaVerne Judy Bush, 75, of Green Cove Springs, FL passed away Saturday, September 10, 2016. She was born May 14, 1941 in Lima, OH to parents, Loel L. Judy and Evelyn I. (Stover) Judy. Mrs. Bush moved to the area in 1975 coming from New Albany, IN. She was of the Catholic faith and a parishioner of Sacred Heart...
Herbert Cooper
September 10, 2016
Herbert Cleveland Cooper, Jr. passed away at his home on September 10, 2016. He was born in Monroe, Georgia and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. After graduating from Andrew Jackson High School in 1952, he joined the Navy and served on the USS Coral Sea at the end of the Korean War. His Navy training led to his job as an...
Amy Eula Stidham
September 10, 2016
Amy Eula Stidham of Orange Park, Florida passed away on Saturday, September 10, 2016 surrounded by her loving husband, children, and grandchildren. She was born on Wednesday November 16, 1932 to the late Claude and Hazel Wilder in Jonesville, Virginia. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother who focused her life on her family and...
Robert James Gill, Sr.
September 9, 2016
Robert J. Gill, Sr., 70, of Middleburg, FL, passed away September 9, 2016. He was born on September 8, 1946 in Sault Ste Marie, MI to the late William James Joseph Gill and Mary Elizabeth Hall Gill. Mr. Gill came to Middleburg in 1982 from NAS Pax River MD. He was of the Catholic faith and served his country honorably...
Kenneth L. Smith
September 8, 2016
Kenneth L. Smith, 84, of Fleming Island, FL passed away September 8, 2016. He was born on October 15, 1931 in Holly, CO to parents McKinley and Ruth Smith. He had served in the U.S Army as an artillery officer during the Korean Conflict and was a member of the Korean and War Veterans Battalion #424. Mr. Smith had taught...
Loubelle Tyre Long
September 7, 2016
Loubelle Tyre Long died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, at Penney Farms Community, Florida. She was 95 years old. Born August 6, 1921, at Florahome, in Putnam County FL, Loubelle Gertrude Tyre was the 8th of 11 children born to Isaac Berton “Bert” Tyre and Zorada “Bell” Carter Tyre. She contracted polio as a young child, which affected her left leg...
Carol V. Skaggs
September 7, 2016
Carol V. Skaggs, 79, of Fleming Island, FL, passed away September 7, 2016. She was born on April 9, 1937 in Maplewood, WV to parents Harold and Virginia (Taylor) McCallister. Mrs. Skaggs was a homemaker and moved to Fleming Island, FL 5 years ago from Greenville, SC. She loved quilting and will be dearly missed by her loving family and...
Paul Michael Kerns, Jr.
September 6, 2016
Paul Michael Kerns, Jr., 41, of Middleburg, FL, passed away Tuesday, September 6, 2016. He was born on July 8, 1975 in Paterson, New Jersey to parents Paul Michael Kerns, Sr. and Nalani Merry Kerns. Mr. Kerns was a US Army Veteran who served as an artillery mechanic in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before joining the Army, he attended Middleburg High...
Joy Olson Morris
September 5, 2016
Joy Olson Morris, the daughter of Carl John Olson and Lydia Hagstrom Olson was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 4, 1925. Reared in Winter Haven, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Atlanta, Georgia, she attended Druid Hills High School in Atlanta and Georgia State University. Prior to her marriage, she worked at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and Bell Aircraft...
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