Betty Lou Drawdy
Nov 20, 2014
Betty Lou Drawdy, 80, of Bowling Green, passed away at Lehigh Acres Health and Rehab on Thursday, November 20, 2014. She was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on March 12, 1934. Betty moved to Hardee County from Fort Myers in 1987. She was a member of Corinth Primitive Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Her husband, Marion Henry Drawdy, preceded her...
Leighton Dale Bennett
Nov 15, 2014
Leighton Dale Bennett, 95, lifelong resident of Wauchula, passed away on Saturday, November 15, 2014 at Hardee Manor. He was born in Wauchula on August 28, 1919. He was a member and an honorary deacon at Southside Baptist Church in Wauchula and loved gardening and animals. Mr. Bennett was a World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Army Air...
Robert O. Fort
Nov 14, 2014
Robert O. Fort, 86, of Wauchula, passed away on Friday, November 14, 2014 at Hardee Manor. He was born in Wauchula on October 21, 1928 and had been a lifelong resident. Robert was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wauchula. He had served in the United States Army and was the owner and building contractor of Fort Construction....
Glenn Alan Ackley
Nov 10, 2014
Glenn Alan Ackley, 49, of Wauchula, passed away on Monday, November 10, 2014 at Winter Haven Hospital. He was born in Flint, Michigan on December 3, 1964 and had been a resident of Wauchula since coming here from Flint in 1973. He was a member of Grace Fellowship in Wauchula. He was preceded in death by his father, Harold Glenn...
Evelyn Faye Soles
Nov 9, 2014
Evelyn Faye Soles, 81, of Wauchula, passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 9, 2014 after a day surrounded by family and loved ones, at Somers Hospice House in Sebring following a long battle with cancer. Evelyn was born in Haines City on August 7, 1933 to Raymond and Estelle Money Hamric. She was a member of the First United Methodist...
Ralph Harrison
Nov 4, 2014
Ralph Harrison, 74, of Wauchula, passed away on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at home. He was born in Elba, Alabama on September 28, 1940 and had been a resident of Hardee County for 46 years, coming from Sebring. Ralph served in the U.S. Marine Corps. and was a Protestant. For many years he was a photographer for all manner of...
Ruth Thomas Collier
Nov 4, 2014
Ruth Thomas Collier, 87, of Zolfo Springs, passed away on November 4, 2014. She was born in Russellville, Alabama on January 31, 1927. Ruth had been a resident of Zolfo Springs since 1949 and was a member of the Mission Holiness Church in Wauchula. She had been employed at Mancini's Packing House as a sectionizer for 30 years, the Fort...
Juanita Oralia Ronquillo
Oct 29, 2014
Juanita Ronquillo, 53, of Wauchula, passed away on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at Somers Hospice House in Sebring. She was born in Lubbock, Texas on July 31, 1961 and had been a resident of Hardee County for most of her life. She was a homemaker and member of Templo La Hermosa in Wauchula. She was preceded in death by her...
Kathryn Coker Melendy
Oct 27, 2014
Kathryn Coker Melendy, 87, of Wauchula, died peacefully at home on Monday evening, October 27, 2014, surrounded by family. She was born on March 21, 1927 and had been a resident of Hardee County since 1935, coming from DeSoto County. She was a businesswoman and an owner of Coker Fuel. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hollis and...
Sandra Lee Gainous
Oct 23, 2014
Sandra Lee Gainous, 72, of Wauchula, passed away on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at Somers Hospice House in Sebring. She was born in Tampa, Florida on July 6, 1942. Sandra had been a Hardee County resident for fifty years. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by a son, Lil' Byron Gainous. Survivors include her husband, Byron Gainous...
Shirley Lois Risteen
Oct 21, 2014
Shirley Lois Risteen, 81, a resident of Lake Placid, Florida, passed away on October 21, 2014. Shirley was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on November 11, 1932, the daughter of Harold and Virginia Putnam. She graduated from Thomaston High School in Thomaston, Maine in 1951. She also attended the University of Maine and graduated in 1955. She was predeceased by a...
Buren Eugene "Gene" Alsabrook
Oct 16, 2014
Gene Alsabrook, 67, of Bowling Green, passed away on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at Florida Hospital Wauchula. He was born in Dade City, Florida on August 27, 1947 and had been a resident of Hardee County for seven years, coming from Charleston, South Carolina. Gene served in the United States Army, retiring as Major in 1984. Survivors include his wife,...
Joe L Davis
Oct 15, 2014
Joe L. Davis, 91, of Wauchula, passed away on October 15, 2014 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. Joe was born September 25, 1923 in Wauchula, He was a Realtor and a citrus grove owner in Polk, Highlands, Hardee, and DeSoto Counties. He is a member of the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame, and the First Baptist Church of Wauchula. He...
Dorothy Jean Ehling
Oct 14, 2014
Dorothy Jean Ehling, 67, of Wauchula, passed away at Somers Hospice House in Sebring on Tuesday, October 14, 2014. She was born in Xenia, Ohio on July 31, 1947. Dorothy came to Hardee County from Ohio 23 years ago. She was a homemaker and a member of the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Arcadia. Survivors include her husband, Jacob...
Evelyn R Adams
Oct 6, 2014
Evelyn R. Adams of Wauchula died on October, 6 2014 at Hardee Manor. She was 101 years old. Evelyn was born on April 29, 1913 in Collins , Georgia and had lived in Hardee County since 1926. She was employed as a telephone operator for United Telephone and had been a member of First United Methodist Church. She was preceded...
Joyce Ruth Couch
Oct 6, 2014
Joyce Ruth Couch of Wauchula died on October 6, 2014 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Sebring. Joyce was born on October 21, 1940 in Walden, New York. She was a Hardee County resident since 1995, having moved here from Orlando. Joyce had been employed as an electronic technician for Unique Electronics. She was a Baptist and a member of the...
Huey Cleveland Sconyers
Sep 27, 2014
Huey C. Sconyers, 77, of Fort Meade, passed away at his home on Saturday, September 27, 2014. He was born in Coffee County, Alabama on March 27, 1937 and had been a resident of Polk County since 1953. Mr. Sconyers was a member of Victory Praise Center in Bowling Green, and had been employed as a grove caretaker for Davis,...
Jewell Lee Shackelford
Sep 23, 2014
Jewell Lee Shackelford, 80, of Zolfo Springs, passed away on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at Somers Hospice House in Sebring. She was born in Gordon, Alabama on February 25, 1934 and had been a resident of Hardee County since 1952, coming from Bascom, Florida. Jewell was a member of New Hope Baptist Church and served as a Sunday school teacher...
Donia Beatrice Hughes
Sep 7, 2014
Donia Beatrice Hughes, 90, of Wauchula, passed away on Sunday, September 7, 2014 at Somers Hospice House in Sebring. She was born in Reddick, Florida on April 4, 1924 and had been a resident of Hardee County most of her life. Mrs. Hughes was a member of the First Christian Church in Wauchula. She had been a preschool teacher at...
Brenda Lee Rymanowicz
Aug 31, 2014
Brenda Lee Rymanowicz, 56, of Zolfo Springs, passed away at Somers Hospice House in Sebring on Sunday, August 31, 2014. Born in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 1957, she moved to Hardee County from Lakeland 39 years ago. Brenda worked for Lefty and Jane Durando, and was a member of Cowboy Up Ministry. Survivors include one son, Dusty Rymanowicz of...
