John M. Wojtowicz, Jr.
Jul 11, 2020
John M. Wojtowicz Jr. of Lake City, Fl passed peacefully July 11, 2020 at the VA Hospital, Lake City, Florida. John was born in Conneaut, Ohio, August 10, 1951 son of John (Yash) and Ceceil (Dutch) Wojtowicz. In 1971 he married Judith Edgley and together they raised three children John the 3rd, Shelly Marie, and Hailey. John served in...
Charles Austin Newcomb, Jr.
Jul 10, 2020
Charles Austin Newcomb, Jr., 76 of Lake City, passed away unexpectantly on Friday, July 10, 2020. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the oldest of 11 children, to the late Charles Austin Newcomb, Sr. and Velma Brooks Newcomb. Mr. Newcomb made his home in Lake City in 1965 following his service in the United States Army. He worked for...
Jackie Emry Schwartz
Jul 1, 2020
Jackie Katherine Schwartz, 82, passed away on July 1, 2020 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born December 26, 1937 in Ottumwa, Iowa. Jackie was the daughter of Charlie and Frances Emry from Knoxville, Iowa until moving to Florida in 1959.
She attended Michael Reese Hospital School of Nursing from 1956-1957. She received her...
James Lee Bolton
Jun 30, 2020
James Lee Bolton, 78, longtime resident of Lake City, Florida, passed away peacefully on June 30, 2020 at his home in Deland, Florida. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Mary Ellen Bolton. He is also survived by his brother, Steve Wilson Bolton, daughters Beverly Bolton Ott (Jim) and Brenda Bolton Acosta (Robby), two granddaughters, Steffany Ann...
Wendell David Markham
Jun 29, 2020
Wendell David Markham, 78, of Panama City, longtime resident of Lake City, passed away on Monday, June 29, 2020 after an extended illness. He was born in Lake City on August 24, 1941 to the late George W. and Eula Priest Markham. He lived most of his life in the Lake City area, moving to the Panama City area...
Marilee "Goo Goo" Bonyata
Jun 28, 2020
Mrs. Marilee "Goo Goo" Bonyata, 85, of Lake City, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, June 28, 2020 after an extended illness. She was born in Grinnell, Iowa on November 2, 1934 to the late Delmar and Betty Maxwell Ahrens. She has made Lake City her home since 1976, moving here from Moorehead, Kentucky. She was a homemaker and...
Barbara Crews O'Steen
Jun 24, 2020
Mrs. Barbara Crews Osteen passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at Haven Hospice in Lake City, Florida. She was 77 years old.
She is survived by Doc Bloodworth; two sons, Stanley (Cindy), Dean (Pam) ; three grandchildren; four great grandchildren; one sister, Louise Clements (Ivan) ; one brother, Vernon Crews.
A private graveside funeral was...
Wilma Vann Carter
Jun 22, 2020
Wilma Vann Carter, 93, of Lake City, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2020 after a sudden illness. She was born in Thomasville, Georgia on January 22, 1927 to the late John Daniel and Sarah Carrin Odom. She has lived in Lake City since 1940, was the last surviving child of eight children; and was a member of the...
Barbara Joyce Ball
Jun 20, 2020
Mrs. Barbara Joyce Ball, 85, of Lake City, passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, June 20, 2020 at the Haven-Suwannee Valley Hospice Care Center after an extended illness. She was born in Rockmart, Georgia on January 29, 1935 to the late George and Katy Morgan Vinning. She worked for the Fulton County Government in Georgia for many years as...
Robert Anderson "Bobby" George, Jr.
Jun 16, 2020
Robert Anderson "Bobby" George, Jr., dearly loved husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend passed away on June 16, 2020. Born in Lake City, Florida in 1935, Bobby was the son of R. A., Sr. and Lillian Sistrunk George. Bobby attended Columbia High School, Emory at Oxford, and the University of Florida where he was a member of SAE fraternity. ...
Hilda Alene Prebys
Jun 15, 2020
Hilda Alene Prebys, 86 of Lake City, passed away on Monday, June 15, 2020 at home. She was born in Branford, Florida to the late Edgar Goff Peterson and Rubye Irene Walker Peterson. Mrs. Prebys had lived in Lake City for the past 20 years and had previously been a resident of Houston, Texas. She had been in the...
Evelyn Jane Nichols
Jun 12, 2020
Evelyn Jane Nichols, 77, of Lake City, passed away Friday morning, June 12, 2020 after an extended illness. She was born in Frostproof, Florida on February 18, 1943 to the late Hart Maxcy and Helia Louise Morris Pond. She has made Lake City her home since 1969 and was of the Baptist Faith. Her and her husband owned and...
Margaret M. Navarra
Jun 11, 2020
Margaret M. Navarra, 99, of Dunedin, Florida passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family in Lake City, Florida, on June 11, 2020. She was one month shy of her 100th birthday. Margaret was born to George F. and Yvonne (Robert) McMahon on July 14, 1920 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
As the eldest in a family...
Kathleen “Ms. Kay” Cummings
Jun 11, 2020
Kathleen "Ms. Kay" Theresa Cummings, of Lake City, Florida, passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2020 surrounded by her loving family. Kay was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts on May 29, 1930, to Joseph Francis Clancy and Mary A. Heavy Clancy. She married Carl L. Cummings, Jr. in 1951, and began their journey of building a large,...
Carol Jean Robinson
Jun 11, 2020
Mrs. Carol Jean Robinson aged 65 of Lake City FL went to her Heavenly home on June 11, 2020 in Gainesville FL. She was born on October 1, 1954 the daughter of Norman J. and Mary Richardson Kautz. Carol served her country in the United States Army for three years. After leaving the Army Carol worked several important jobs...
Leo Horne
Jun 11, 2020
Mr. Leo Horne, 78 of Lake City, passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2020, at the Haven Suwannee Valley Care Center in Lake City. He was born the middle of seven children to the late Corbitt and Cassie Clark Horne and was a lifelong resident of Lake City. Mr. Horne was a graduate of Columbia High School class of...
Carl Louis Wilson
Jun 9, 2020
Carl Louis Wilson, age 85, of Fort White, FL, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 from a farming accident. He was born on November 12, 1934 in Tarpon Springs, FL to the late John R. and Esther Shoemaker Wilson. At the age of four months, he moved with his parents and older brother to the family farm...
Gladis Richard "Dick" Ryder
Jun 9, 2020
Gladis Richard "Dick" Ryder
Born July 1, 1931 passed on June 9, 2020
A devoted and loving husband and proud Father who served his country as a service member of the United States Army. He resided in Branford, Florida for the past 56 years, Dick was a diesel mechanic by trade but enjoyed farming, hunting,...
Dolores E. Keaton
Jun 9, 2020
Dolores Elizabeth Keaton, 89, of Lake City, Fla., died on June 9, 2020 after an extended illness.
She was born May 14, 1931 in Robinson, Ark., in a log cabin to Willie and Oleta Clark. She married Thurman J. Keaton, a naval officer, in 1950. The Keatons lived in Connecticut, Key West and Arkansas before moving to...
Patricia A. Collins
Jun 9, 2020
Mrs. Patricia Collins, 76, of Lake City, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Lake City. She was born in Tallahassee, Florida on July 31, 1943 to the late Rollin Gatewood Gardner and Rose Hodge Gardner. She has lived in Lake City most of her life and was LPN for many years. She loved her family and...
