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Hettie Faye Wheeler

Hettie Faye Wheeler

Dec 8, 2021

Ms. Hettie Faye Wheeler, aged 78 of Lake City, passed away peacefully Wednesday, December 8, 2021, after an extended illness. She was born in Lake City, FL on September 28, 1943 to the late Bill and Bonnie Jackson Wheeler. She was a lifelong resident of Lake City, FL and a member of the Lake City Church of God for...

Sharon Kay Saint

Sharon Kay Saint

Dec 8, 2021

Sharon Kay Saint, 74, of McAplin, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, December 8, 2021 after a brief illness. She was born in North Carolina on March 16, 1947 to the late Thomas and Gertrude Thacker. She has made the McAlpin area her home the last 26 years, having previously lived in the Old Town and Tampa area(s). She...

Anne Mary Guyot

Anne Mary Guyot

Dec 7, 2021

Anne Mary Guyot, aged 89 of Lake City, passed away on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at The Canopy at Harper Lake.  She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, the youngest of 8 children, to the late Michael Deane and Mary Moran Deane.  Ms Guyot moved to the United States in the mid 1960's to New York and then to...

Dakota J. Parsons

Dakota J. Parsons

Dec 2, 2021

Dakota J. Parsons, 26, of Lake City, passed away suddenly on Thursday, December 2, 2021. He was born on September 28, 1995 and has lived in the Lake City area most of his life. He attended Fort White High School and worked in the Pole Barn Business with his "Pops". In his spare time, he enjoyed hunting, fishing and...

Sharon Elaine Koontz

Sharon Elaine Koontz

Dec 1, 2021

Sharon Elaine Hiatt Koontz, 79, former resident of Alachua, FL, passed away on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville after an extended illness. She was born in Maysville, KY and moved to Alachua in 1971. She was an employee of Lake Butler Apparel until their closure; and was active with her Husband Robert in...

Gus Jones

Gus Jones

Nov 28, 2021

Gussie Lawrence "Gus" Jones, 51, of Lake City, passed away on Sunday afternoon, November 28, 2021 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville after a sudden illness. He was born on February 14, 1970 to the late William A. Jones and Carolyn Faye Douglas Jones. He has made Lake City his home all of his life, and...

Charles Lee Hatcher

Charles Lee Hatcher

Nov 24, 2021

Charles Lee Hatcher, 88 of Lake City, passed away on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at his home.  He was born in Cordele, Georgia to the late Robert Lee Hatcher and Dallas Hangsworth Hatcher.  Mr. Hatcher had made his home in Lake City since the late 1950's and was the owner and operator of Hatcher's Transmission Services in Lake City...

Kathryn Marie Runyon

Kathryn Marie Runyon

Nov 24, 2021

Kathryn Marie Runyon, 65 of Frederick, Maryland and former longtime resident of Lake City, passed away on Wednesday, November 24, 2021.  She was born in Kansas City, Missouri and had made her home in Frederick, Maryland since 2018 and had previously been a resident of Lake City since 1976.  Ms Runyon was of the Nazarene faith and attended the...

Sandra Delores Macfadden

Sandra Delores Macfadden

Nov 21, 2021

Sandra Delores Varnedoe MacFadden was born in Jacksonville, Florida on January 13, 1942. According to her mother she was late in arriving because the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor the previous month and she didn't want to come into the world yet. She graduated in 1959 from Englewood High School (Go Rams!). She married soon after to John Berry...

Jimmy S Albritton

Jimmy S Albritton

Nov 21, 2021

Mr. Jimmy S. Albritton, 76, passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon, November 21, 2021 at the Haven-Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center in Lake City after a brief illness. He was born in Lake City on November 20, 1945 to the late Cozzie and Cora Lee Alford Albritton. He was an Engineer with North East Florida Telephone Company for over...

Lucille Jean Benz

Lucille Jean Benz

Nov 20, 2021

Mrs. Lucille Jean Benz, 98, of Lake City passed away on Saturday, November 20, 2021 at the Lake City Medical Center following a brief illness. A native of Ashtabula, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Hillary and Leona Cummings Hayes and had moved to Florida in 1959 and had lived in Lake City since 1964. She owned...

Louise Vivian Spires

Louise Vivian Spires

Nov 18, 2021

Louise Vivian (nee) Bagley Spires was born on January 1, 1935 in Jacksonville, Florida to loving parents – her mother, Mary Louise (nee) Jones Bagley and her father, Lex V. Bagley.  She was known as Vivian to those who knew and loved her. She journeyed from this life on November 18, 2021 at Haven Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center...

Pat Ann Pruitt

Pat Ann Pruitt

Nov 13, 2021

Pat Ann Pruitt, 67, of Lake City, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, November 13th, 2021. She was born in Franklin, Ohio on October 27th, 1954 to the late Earl Glenn Toney and Barbara Nell Moore. She was a wife, mother and grandmother, who enjoyed spending quality time with her husband making beautiful crafts and cooking. She also...

Ann Parrish Wilcox

Ann Parrish Wilcox

Nov 12, 2021

Anna Parrish Wilcox, 78, passed away on Friday, November 12, 2021. She was born June 18, 1943 in Lake City, Florida to the late J.L. Parrish, Jr. and Anna Markham Parrish. She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren E. Wilcox.

Ann was a graduate of Columbia High School and very much enjoyed growing up in...

Jill Thompson Cayton

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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