Jill Thompson Cayton
Nov 10, 2021
Jill Thompson Cayton, age 36, of Bakersfield, California, passed away on November 10, 2021 in Titusville, Florida. Graveside services will be held 2 PM Saturday, November 20, 2021 at Ebenezer Cemetery, Lake City, Florida. Arrangements are by Gateway-Forest Lawn Funeral Home. Services will be live-streamed via Facebook by visiting Gateway-Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Crematory. Jill Thompson Cayton was...
Julian Hall
Nov 10, 2021
Ernest Julian Hall, 75, of Lake City, passed away on Wednesday afternoon, November 10, 2021 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center after a sudden illness. Julian, as he was known by many or "Jules" amongst his family, was born in Evergreen, Alabama on February 8, 1946 to the late Ernest "Pat" Hall and Mildred Johnson Hall; he moved...
Roberto Rivero Hernandez
Nov 7, 2021
Roberto Rivero Hernandez, 77, of Lake City, passed away on Sunday, November 7, 2021 after an extended illness. He was born in Havana, Cuba on February 28, 1944 to the late Amado Hernandez and Rosa Rivero Hernandez. He was a Carpenter by trade and of the Catholic Faith. In his spare time, he enjoyed wood working, working with his...
James Lewis Dannatt, Jr.
Nov 6, 2021
James Lewis Dannatt, Jr., 69 of Lake City, passed away on Saturday, November 7, 2021 at his home. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and had been a resident of Lake City for the past 35 years. Mr. Dannatt worked for many years in the flooring industry. He enjoyed working with his plants and spending time with...
Tony Martin Kurtz
Nov 4, 2021
Tony Martin Kurtz, 81 of Lake City, passed away on Thursday, November 4, 2021, at the Haven Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center in Lake City. He was born in Danville, KY to the late Fred Thomas Kurtz and Polly Middleton Kurtz and served our country with the United States Coast Guard. Mr. Kurtz had made his home in Lake...
James Wesley Strayer
Oct 30, 2021
James Wesley Strayer, 92 of Lake City, passed away on Saturday, October 30, 2021 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville. Mr. Strayer was born in Maumee, Ohio, the third of four children, to the late Peter C. Strayer and Josephine Gerig Strayer. He had been a resident of Lake City since 2018 and was previously a...
Willie Arthur Carroll
Oct 30, 2021
Willie Arthur Carroll, 82, of Lake City, passed away peacefully early Saturday morning, October 30, 2021 at the Haven-E.T. York Hospice Care Center in Gainesville after an illness. He was born in Falmouth, Florida on October 26, 1939 to the late Lonnie and Josie Warner Carroll. He has made Lake City his home for the last 42 years and...
David Anthony Creel
Oct 29, 2021
David Anthony Creel, 54, of Lake City, passed away on Friday, October 29, 2021 after a sudden illness. He was born in Lake City on October 1, 1967 to Rachel Helen Markham and the late John Larry Creel. He was a life-long resident of Lake City and a member of the Lake City Seventh Day Adventist Church. He was...
Elleon Sue Dorsett
Oct 26, 2021
Elleon B. Dorsett, "Sue", "SuSu", 83 of Branford, Florida, died October 26, 2021 in Lake City, Florida. Su-Su was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, April 24, 1938 to Robert Adair Babcock and Lucia Sleeper. She was the sixth of eight children. She married Thomas L. Dorsett, Jr., her "Eternal Valentine" and best friend, February 14, 1963. She is survived by...
Catherine J Barrett
Oct 23, 2021
Catherine J. Barrett, 48 of White Springs, FL, passed away on Saturday, October 23, 2021. She was born in Plant City, Florida and had made White Springs her home for many years. She was of the Baptist faith and a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church. Mrs. Barrett ministered with her late husband, Charles Barrett, for many years. She enjoyed...
Donna Louise Race
Oct 23, 2021
Donna L. Race of Williston, Florida, formerly of St. Johns, Michigan, passed away October 23, 2021 at the age of 88.
Donna was born in Clinton County Michigan on April 2, 1933, to William and Ida (Marten) Schafer. She worked as a Ward Clerk at Clinton Memorial Hospital before retiring and moving "Up North" to Mancelona for...
Debra L. Larose
Oct 23, 2021
Debra L. LaRose, 64, of McAlpin, passed away on Friday, October 23, 2021 at the Lake City Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born in Olympia, Washington on October 13, 1957 to the late Robert Lawrence Roberts and Peggy Ellen McKinney Roberts. She has made McAlpin her home for the past 27 years, where she helped her...
Susan Louise Yelken
Oct 20, 2021
Susan Louise Yelken, 70, of Lake City, Florida passed away at Lake City Medical Center in Lake City, Florida on Wednesday October 20, 2021.
She was born in Dekalb, Illinois—the eldest of three daughters born to Keith D. Blumhardt and Virginia Mack Blumhardt on August 14, 1951. She was educated in both public and parochial schools in...
Major Robert E. Patterson
Oct 20, 2021
Robert E. Patterson, age 89, departed this world October 20, 2021 at his home in Lake City, Florida. He was born April 4, 1932 in Miami, Florida. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Nathetta, his parents John S. and Lydia Patterson, brothers John, Jr. and Gerald Patterson and sister Lydia Spears.
Robert...
Dwayne Brian Cormier
Oct 19, 2021
Dwayne Brian Cormier, 48, of Lake City, passed away on Tuesday evening, October 19, 2021 at the Shands University of Florida Hospital in Gainesville after an extended illness. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 11, 1973. He has made Lake City his home for most of his life and was a member of Old Providence Baptist...
Barbara Jean Matthews
Oct 18, 2021
Barbara Jean Matthews, 80 of Lake City, passed away on Monday, October 18, 2021, at home with her family. She was born in Valdosta, Georgia the middle child of three to the late Jack and Carrie Wood Barton. Mrs. Matthews was raised in Largo, Florida, she was a graduate of Largo High School class of 1959 and had made...
Gerald "Jerry" Franklin
Oct 17, 2021
Gerald "Jerry" Van Franklin was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 1, 1945.  He peacefully passed with his wife and two daughters by his side on October 17, 2021 at the age of 76.
He is survived by his wife Eileen Hillengas Franklin; daughters Karen Franklin and Angela Sine-Paparella; grandchildren Casey Carter, Andrew Sine, Mitchell Young, and...
Ida Mae Parrish
Oct 16, 2021
Ida Mae Parrish, 81, of Lake City, passed away on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at the Shands University of Florida Hospital in Gainesville after an extended illness. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 23, 1940 and has made Lake City her home since 2016, moving here from Miami, FL. She was known to be a "Pistol"...
Albert "Al" J. Waters, Jr
Oct 14, 2021
Albert J. "Al" Waters, Jr., 61 of Lake City, passed away on Thursday, October 14, 2021 at his home in Lake City. Al was born and raised in Lake City to the late Albert J. Waters, Sr. and Vivian Lucille Shaw Waters. He was a lifelong resident of Lake City, a graduate of Columbia High School class of 1977...
Jo Ann Theresa Pettigrew
Oct 12, 2021
JoAnn Theresa Pettigrew, 83 of Lake City, passed away on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at Solaris Healthcare. She was born in Miami, Florida to the late Alexander J. Goode and Essie Luverne Fillingim Goode. Mrs. Pettigrew had made Lake City her home since 1988 having moved here from Palm Bay, Florida, where she had been a longtime resident. She...
