Betty Washburn
Sep 20, 2012
Betty Jane Washburn, 87, of Arcadia, passed away at Charlotte Regional Medical Center on September 20, 2012. She was born on March 20, 1925 in Farrell, Pennsylvania. She moved to DeSoto County from Pennsylvania in 1994. Betty was a member of the Fort Ogden Baptist Church and had been employed as a calibrator with Bliely Electric. She was also a...
Harvey Grantham
Sep 12, 2012
Harvey Grantham, 88, of Bowling Green, passed away at Good Shepherd Hospice in Sebring on September 12, 2012. Mr. Grantham was born in Geneva, Alabama on November 24, 1923, and had been a resident of Hardee County since 1948, formerly of Highlands County. He was a charter member of the Wauchula Hills Baptist Church and taught Sunday school there for...
Jackie Williams
Sep 11, 2012
Jackie Williams, 65, of Wauchula, passed away at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton on September 11, 2012. Mr. Williams was born on January 7, 1947 in Hardee County and had been a lifelong resident. He was a cattle rancher and a member of the First Baptist Church of Wauchula. Survivors include his wife, Carol Williams of Wauchula; one daughter and...
Donald Murphy,
Aug 31, 2012
Donald Herbert Murphy, Sr., 70, lifelong resident of Wauchula, passed away on August 31, 2012 at Florida Hospital Wauchula. He was born on March 14, 1942 in Wauchula to Herbert and Louise Murphy. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church and had been employed as a caretaker with Henderson and Brown Groves. Survivors include his wife, Juanita Murphy...
Debbie Hanner-Brown
Aug 23, 2012
Debbie Beckham-Hanner-Brown,59, passed away on August 23,2012 at her home in Arcadia. Debbie was born in Bartow on February 13,1953 and was a resident of DeSoto county most of her life. She was employed by DeSoto Memorial Hospital for 28 years as a unit secretary. She loved painting,arts and crafts, working in her yard, and spending time with her family....
Betty Jean Johnston
Aug 19, 2012
Betty Jean Johnston, 70, of Zolfo Springs, passed away on August 19, 2012 at Shands at UF in Gainesville. Betty was born in Arcadia on April 15, 1942, and had been a lifelong resident of Desoto and Hardee Counties. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Roy Johnston of Zolfo Springs; two daughters and sons-in-law, Penny and Kelly Little...
Reba Seay
Aug 16, 2012
Reba Lou Seay, 61, of Wauchula, passed away at Tampa General Hospital on August 16, 2012. She was born in Benton, Missouri on July 27, 1951, and had been a resident of Hardee County most of her life. She was a Baptist, and was employed as a corrections officer. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Peggy Seay. Survivors...
Richard Dandridge
Aug 16, 2012
Richard Thomas Dandridge, 82, of Zolfo Springs, passed away at Lakeland Regional Medical Center on August 16, 2012. Mr. Dandridge was born in Wauchula on October 6, 1929 and had been a lifelong resident of this area. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Zolfo Springs. He served in the U. S. Coast Guard and had...
R Mcclellan
Aug 15, 2012
R. C. McClellan, 98, of Bowling Green, passed away at his home on August 15, 2012. Mr. McClellan was born in Hartford, Alabama on July 22, 1914, and had been a resident of Hardee County since 1969, coming from Polk County. He was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Lorida, Florida, and had been employed as...
John Dickinson
Aug 12, 2012
John Franklin Dickinson, 72, of Englewood, passed away on August 12, 2012 at his home. He was born in Rose, New York on February 11, 1940. He moved to Englewood from Wauchula 20 years ago. Mr. Dickinson was a member of Southside Baptist Church, Wauchula, and had been employed as a construction manager. He was preceded in death by his...
Luis Gomez
Aug 7, 2012
Luis Gomez, 54, of Bowling Green, passed away on August 7, 2012 in Wauchula. Luis was born in Saginaw, Michigan on June 16, 1958 and had lived most of his life in Hardee County. He was a member of St. Michael Catholic Church and was employed by Central Pump and Irrigation in Wauchula. He is survived by his mother, Ninfa...
Kathy Morrison
Aug 3, 2012
Kathy Jean Morrison, 43, of Auburndale, passed away on August 3, 2012 at Winter Haven Hospital. Kathy was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania on July 7, 1969. She moved to Polk County 13 years ago from Orlando. She was employed at Winn Dixie as a bakery associate. Survivors include her husband Terry Morrison of Auburndale; two sons, Christopher Morrison and...
Iris Nichols
Aug 3, 2012
Iris E. Nichols, 91, of Bowling Green, passed away on August 3, 2012 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. She was born September 9, 1920 at Lake Garfield, Florida. She had been a resident of Hardee County since 1954, coming from Michigan. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bowling Green and was a homemaker. Mrs. Nichols was...
John Dorsey
Jul 31, 2012
John Dorsey, 43, of Wauchula, passed away on July 31, 2012. He was born on September 30, 1968 in Charleston, West Virginia and had been a resident of Hardee County for one year, coming from Sebring. He was a truck driver for Hardee County Disposal, and served in the U. S. Army. He was preceded in death by a nephew,...
Emma Parker
Jul 30, 2012
Emma Sue Parker, one month, of Wauchula, died July 30, 2012 at Florida Hospital Orlando. Emma was born in Orlando on June 23, 2012. She is survived by her parents, Jennifer Nichole and Tommy Lee Parker, Jr. of Wauchula; grandparents, Tommy Parker, Debbie and Eugene Papa, Jr., and Lori Grills; great-grandparents, Carol Ann and Samuel Sink, Jr.; brother, Timmy Cowart;...
Hazel Knisley
Jul 28, 2012
Hazel Marie Knisley, 96, of Port Charlotte, passed away on July 28,2012 at her home. She was born in South Bend, Indiana on April 2, 1916. She had been employed as a school crossing guard. Mrs. Knisley is survived by a son, Tom Knisley of Port Charlotte; a daughter, Mary Jo Thurston of Naples; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Memorials...
Max Hollingsworth
Jul 25, 2012
Max Eldon Hollingsworth, 86, of Wauchula, passed away on July 25, 2012 at Hardee Manor. Max was born in Randolph County, Indiana on December 21, 1925. He had been a resident of Wauchula since 2002, when he moved here from Richmond, Indiana. He was a World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Navy, and had been employed as a...
Joann Wells
Jul 12, 2012
Joann M. Wells, 67, of Wauchula, passed away on July 12, 2012 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Sebring. Joann was born in Connecticut on June 15, 1945 and moved to Hardee County from Lithia 46 years ago. She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Bowling Green. She was preceded in death by her parents, R. L. and Louise...
Alfredo Cardona
Jul 11, 2012
Alfredo Cardona, 64, of Wauchula, passed away at his home on July 11, 2012. He was born in Puerto Rico on May 30, 1948 and moved to Hardee County from Avon Park in 2003. He was the Pastor of Fountain of Life Church. Pastor Cardona is survived by his wife, Maria Cardona of Wauchula; three sons, Alfredo Cardona, Jr. of...
Deborah L. Taylor
Jul 5, 2012
Deborah "Debbie" Taylor, 58, of Wauchula, passed away at Good Shepherd Hospice in Sebring on July 5, 2012. Debbie was born in Campbellsville, Kentucky on January 30, 1954. She had been a resident of Wauchula for most of her life. She was employed in the trucking industry, was a member of the Moose Lodge and was Pentecostal by faith. Survivors...
