Obituary Listing

Mar 17, 2018

Emma Jean Callahan, 77, of Lake City, passed away on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center after an extended illness. She was born in Wellborn, Florida on October 29, 1940 to the late George Walker, Jr. and Annie Crews Walker. She was a homemaker all of her adult life and loved to spend time...

Mar 15, 2018

Eileen Joyce Smith Sloan, 93 of Lake City, passed away on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at the Solaris HealthCare in Lake City, Florida.  She was born in Sydney, Australia to the late George and Evelyn Smith.  Ms Sloan came to the United States and married Lt. Roy Sloan, United States Navy Retired, and he preceded her in death in...

Mar 10, 2018

Mr. Laton Douglas "Buddy" McGrew, 71, of Lake City, passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, March 10, 2018 at the Haven Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center in Lake City after an extended illness. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa on January 7, 1947 to the late Laton Webb McGrew and Ruby Miller McGrew Smith.  He has lived in...

Feb 27, 2018

Laura "Ashley" O'Neal, 33 of Lake City passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at the Lake City Medical Center.  She was born in Lake City May 2, 1984 to Timothy Blackwell and Lori Williams Blackwell.  She has been a lifelong resident of Lake City and was a Columbia High graduate.  She was a member of the Church of Jesus...

Feb 18, 2018

William Buddy "Billy" Brown, 66 of Lake City, passed away on Sunday, February 18, 2018 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville.  He was born in Williston, Florida and was a longtime resident of Lake City, Jacksonville and Green Cove Springs, FL.  Mr. Brown loved fishing, building bird houses and gardening.  He was also an avid Florida...

Feb 14, 2018

Nathetta Patterson, 85, of Lake City and formerly Orlando, Florida passed away on February 14, 2018, Valentine's Day. Born on June 5, 1932 in Miami, she lived a full and active life until her diagnosis 10 years ago with the rare neurodegenerative disease progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), which robbed her of mobility for many years before ultimately ending her...

Feb 14, 2018

Following an extended illness, John Russell North, Sr. 76, passed away peacefully at Haven Hospice in Lake City, Florida, surrounded by loving family, on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. Russell was born on January 5, 1942, in Lake City, Florida. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1960 and while in high school he joined the U.S. Navy Reserves and...

Feb 13, 2018

Golden Joy Whitfield Osborne "Goldie" "Joyce" Lease, 82, passed away on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at the Lafayette Health Care Center in Mayo.  She was born in O'Brien, Florida to the late Clyde Leroy and Edna Lee Alderman Whitfield.  In Joyce's early part of life her parents and family lived in the San Francisco, California area.  One of Joyce's...

Feb 12, 2018

Jacqueline Dorothy Sass Henry, 87, passed peacefully at the Haven-Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center in Lake City on February 12, 2018 after an extended illness. Jacqueline was a devout Catholic and attended Epiphany Catholic Church since moving to Lake City in 2006. Jacqueline was a retired teacher in the North Carolina School System. She is preceded in death by...

Feb 12, 2018

Mrs. Elga Hunter passed away after a brief illness on February 12, 2018.   She was born August 22, 1927 to the late Robert and Pearl Butler in Quincy, Florida.  She graduated from Quincy High School Class of 1946.  She then moved to Jacksonville and became a licensed Beautician where she worked for several years before moving to Tallahassee.  In...

Feb 11, 2018

Mr. Raymond LeRoy Ferber, 83, of White Springs, passed away peacefully at the Lake City Veterans Administration Hospice Unit in Lake City on February 11, 2018 after an extended illness. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 21, 1934 to the late Karl and Elnora Simmons Ferber. He has made the White Springs area his home for...

Feb 9, 2018

Mrs. Sharon L. Harden, 79, of Old Town, passed away peacefully on Friday afternoon, February 9, 2018 at the Haven-Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center after an extended illness. She was born to the late Paul and Virginia Belle Kelly on July 13, 1938 in Lebanon, Ohio, and has made Florida her home for the last several years, spending most...

Feb 4, 2018

Donald F. Pellicer of Lake City, Florida, passed away February 4, 2018,  just one day before his 90th Birthday, at the Haven Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center in Lake City. Don was born February 5, 1928 in St Augustine, Florida to Goodson Xavier and Hilda Gerster Pellicer.

Don graduated from St. Joseph's Academy, class of 1946. After...

Feb 3, 2018

Mark Douglas McCandless, 60, of Live Oak, passed away peacefully on February 3 at Haven Hospice after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Mark was born on September 9, 1957 in New Castle, PA, and moved to Florida when he was two.  He considered himself a true Floridian.  Mark worked briefly in construction, but truly loved his job...

Feb 3, 2018

Mrs. Sharon Ann Fountain Davis, 69, of Lake City, passed away Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center after a sudden illness. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska on September 1, 1948 to the late Gerald and Anna Stolt Fountain. She has made Lake City her home since 2007, moving here from Fort Pierce, FL....

Feb 3, 2018

Mrs. Mary Lucille Rine, 82, of Lake City died Saturday, February 03, 2018 at Haven Suwannee Valley Care Center. A native of Piketon, OH, she was the daughter of the late Arthur Earl and Minnie Belle McNelly Locke and had lived in Lake City since 1979. Mrs. Rine retired after teaching in the Columbia County School System for 23...

Feb 1, 2018

Bernice Wilder Harris, 91 of Lake City,  passed away on February 1, 2018 at the Haven Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center.  She was born on May 7, 1926 in Perry, FL and was a longtime resident of Lake City.  She retired from the Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lake City.  Bernice was widowed 3 times and is...

Jan 31, 2018

Mrs. Patsy Anne (Carter) Bognar, 85, of Live Oak, Florida, died peacefully Wednesday morning January 31st at Surrey Place Nursing Home in Live Oak, Florida. Mrs. Bognar was born in Milan, Illinois and moved to Clearwater Florida in the 1950's with her husband Darrel W. Bognar and four children.  She moved to Spokane, Washington for a brief time.  Her...

Jan 31, 2018

Stella M. Bennett, 85 of Lake City, passed away on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, at the Lake City Medical Center.  She was born in Thomasville, Georgia to the late Ernest R. and Laura McKelvin Sanders.  Mrs. Bennett had made her home in North Florida for the past 50 years having moved here from Adel, Georgia.  She was a longtime...

Jan 29, 2018

Lloyd L. Lease, Jr, 93, passed away on Monday, January 29, 2018 at the Tampa Lakes Health and Rehabilitation Center in Tampa.  He was born and raised in Branford, Florida to the late Lloyd L. Lease, Sr. and Maude Godfrey Lease.  Mr. Lease was a WWII Veteran having served in the United States Army.  He preceded in death his...