Grayson Victor Braddock
Dec 15, 2017
Grayson Victor Braddock, 68 of Wauchula, Florida went to be with his Lord & Savior Jesus Christ on Friday, December 15, 2017. Grayson was born September 29, 1949 in Wauchula, Fl. He was a resident of Hardee County for 35 years; a member & Sr. Adult Sunday school teacher at Union Baptist Church where he attended nearly 30 years. In...
J. Jim Holmes
Dec 10, 2017
J. Jim Holmes went home to be with the Lord December 10, 2017. He passed away at the Florida Hospital Orlando South. Jim was born September 16, 1937 in Newbury, Ohio to John B. Holmes and Viola King. He was a resident of Windsor Ohio coming from Newbury Ohio. He and his wife have been winter residents in Hardee County...
Juan Pantoja Medrano
Dec 9, 2017
Juan Pantoja Medrano went home to be with the Lord December 9, 2017. He passed away at the Florida Hospital Tampa. Juan was born January 27, 1954 in Valle de Santiago Guanajuato, Mexico to Francisco Pantoja and Maria Luz. He was a resident of Hardee County for most of his life coming from Mexico. He was a Member of St....
Virginia Rutland
Dec 4, 2017
Mrs. Virginia Rutland nee Wilkerson died peacefully at home on Monday, December 4, 2017 in Wauchula, Florida at the age of 89. Virginia is survived by her children, Janetta Kieffer, Roger Rutland and Bill Rutland; her sister Ruth Audrey Skaff in Jacksonville; and several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her former husband Harold Loyd Rutland; her...
Harold Loyd Seymore
Dec 2, 2017
Harold Loyd Seymore, 96, of Arcadia, passed away at DeSoto Health and Rehab on Saturday, December 2, 2017. He was born in Monticello, Arkansas on April 11, 1921. Mr. Seymore came to Arcadia from Maryland in 1987. He was a member of Nocatee Methodist Church and the Moose Lodge. He also enjoyed playing shuffleboard and softball and was a carpenter....
Kenard Earl Tindell
Nov 29, 2017
Kinard Earl Tindell went home to be with the Lord and his sweet Juanita November 29,2017 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale, Florida. Earl was born October 2, 1936 in Frostproof, Florida to George E. Tindell and Lillar J. Tindell. He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Mary Juanita Smith Tindell, son Marcus D. Tindell, brother Houston...
Evelyn Lee Durrance
Nov 22, 2017
Evelyn Durrance 87, of Wauchula, FL. went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, November 22, 2017. She was born in Duette, Fl., on September 29, 1930. Evelyn had been a resident of Hardee County since 1984 coming from Duette, Fl. Evelyn was a devoted and loving wife. She loved working in the church and helping others. She assisted...
Doris Evelyn Hendry Blackmon
Nov 21, 2017
Evelyn Hendry Blackmon, 96, died in New Zion Community, Ona, Florida on November 21, 2017. She was born July 17, 1921 in New Zion to parents Arthur Samuel Hendry and Pearl McGullion Hendry. She graduated from Hardee High School in 1939, earned the Bachelor of Science from Florida Southern College and the Master of Education from the University of Florida....
William "Billy" O. Grimsley
Nov 18, 2017
William "Billy" O. Grimsley, 79, of Winter Haven, died on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at his home. He was born in Wauchula on March 7, 1938. He graduated from Hardee High School in 1956 and Florida State University in 1961. Billy was a combat bird-dog pilot in Vietnam flying over 100 combat missions looking for enemy ground troops, so that...
Carol E. Knight
Nov 16, 2017
Carol Knight 71, of Wauchula, FL. went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, November 16, 2017. She was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, on April 7, 1946. Carol had been a resident of Hardee County since August 1974 coming from Michigan Carol was a devoted and loving farm wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who treasured her family. She also...
Donald Keith Taylor
Nov 7, 2017
Donald Keith Taylor, 89, of Avon Park, Florida, passed away in Tampa, Florida on November 7, 2017. Mr. Taylor was born in Arkansas City, Kansas on July 26, 1928. He had been a former Hardee County resident. He attended the First Christian Church in Wauchula and had been employed as a laborer for Dupont. Mr. Taylor was a World War...
George W. Wiggins
Oct 28, 2017
George W. Wiggins, 91, of Wauchula, FL. went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, October 28, 2017. He was born in Stuart, Oklahoma on January 2, 1926. George was a resident of Hardee County for the last Fifty Two years coming from Missouri. He has been a member of the Bowling Green Church Of God for 48 years....
Patricia Ann Cook
Oct 18, 2017
Patricia Ann Cook, 69, of Wauchula, FL. went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, October 18, 2017. She was born in Ozark, Alabama on January 15, 1948. Patricia was a resident of Hardee County for the last twenty years. Patricia was a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who treasured her family. She loved the Lord...
Ricardo Reyna
Oct 16, 2017
Ricardo Reyna, 54, of Wauchula, died on Monday, October 16, 2017 In Sebring, Fl. He was born in Lockney, Texas on September 26, 1963. Ricardo has been a resident of Hardee county since 1966 coming from Texas. He was a Catholic by faith. Ricardo is preceded in death by his parents Guadalupe Reyna and Estella Hernandez. as well as a...
Richard Miles Benedict
Oct 16, 2017
Richard Miles Benedict, 90, of Wauchula, died on Monday, October 16, 2017 at his home in Wauchula, Fl. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 24, 1926. Richard has been a resident of Hardee county since July 2016 coming from Dunedin, Fl. Richard was a Baptist by faith. He served in the United States Army during WWII as...
Robyn L. Gale
Oct 10, 2017
Robyn L. Gale, 65, of Bowling Green, Fl. passed away at her home in Bowling Green, on Tuesday, October 10, 2017. She was born in Syracuse, New York on August 24, 1952. Gale was a resident of Hardee County for five years coming from New York. Gale had been employed as an audio and visual Technician for OMC Boces in...
Linda Lue Gray
Oct 9, 2017
Linda Lue Gray, 67, of Wauchula, passed away at her home on Monday, October 9, 2017. She was born on September 19, 1950 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Linda moved to Hardee County from Georgia in 1997. She was a homemaker and a member of Victory Praise Center in Bowling Green. She was preceded in death by her brother, Ray Thomas. Survivors...
Hilda Eloise Roberts
Oct 9, 2017
Hilda Eloise Roberts, 94, of Sebring, passed away at The Palms of Sebring on Monday, October 9, 2017. She was born in Lily, Florida on February 15, 1923 and had lived all of her life in Lily. Mrs. Roberts had been employed by the Hardee County School Board as a school bus driver and was a member of Union Baptist...
Helen M. Lester
Oct 2, 2017
Helen M.Lester, age 89, of Zolfo Springs, passed away on Monday, October 2, 2017 at Resthaven. She was born in Riner, Virginia on December 6, 1927. Helen had been a resident of Hardee County since 1987, when she moved here from New Jersey. She had been employed at White Metal Manufacturing in Pennsylvania as a laborer. Her husband, Herman Lester,...
Marjorie Delores Carrier Mckinney
Sep 28, 2017
Marjorie Delores Carrier McKinney, 71, of Bowling Green, passed away on September 28, 2017 at Hardee Manor in Wauchula. Marjorie was born in Wise County Virginia, December 28, 1945 to Fred and Alverna Carrier. She moved to Bowling Green in 1961 and has been a resident of Hardee County since coming from Virginia. She attended Barkers Chapel in Virginia. Marjorie...
