OBITUARIES
Geraldine Mae Brown
Dec 29, 2017
Geraldine Mae Brown, age 83 of Montverde, Florida, passed away Friday, December 29, 2017. She was born January 30, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Daughter of the late Raymond and Margaret McClintock. My Mom was the most courageous, loyal mother a family could hope for. She would welcome anyone and everyone into our home. We were not blessed with riches money...
Lois A. Lakey
Dec 28, 2017
Lois Addlene Vance Lakey, age 92, of St. Augustine, Florida and former Clermont resident, passed away December 28th, 2017 at Bailey's Hospice Center. She was born March 7th, 1925 in Iager, West Virginia. She was predeceased by parents, Sara and Greenway Vance, 4 sisters, 2 brothers, a beloved niece, Peggy Keoppel and her loving husband of 58 years, Cecil E....
Patricia Ann Judy
Dec 26, 2017
Patricia Ann Judy, age 76, Groveland, passed away December 26, 2017 at the Mike Conley Hospice House surrounded by family. She was born July 6, 1941 in Palm Harbor, Florida daughter of Mittie Ione Portervint & Jodie Paul Rogers. She and her family moved to Montverde when she was in the 5th grade. She attended Clermont High School graduating with...
Jeanette Mae Travers
Dec 26, 2017
Jeanette Mae Travers, 63, of Clermont, FL passed away Tuesday, December 26, 2017.  Jan was born on August 22, 1954 in Orlando, FL, daughter of the late James and Ruth Richardson.  She grew up in Pine Hills, graduated from Evans High School and became a beautician. Jan loved music, her soap operas and chocolate.  She was a bird watcher and...
Raymond Heinie Schmidt
Dec 25, 2017
Our father, Captain Raymond H. Schmidt, US Air Force retired, age 97, formerly of Clermont, took his final flight to his heavenly home on December 25, 2017. He was born August 12, 1920 to Jacob A. Schmidt and Anna J. Schmidt in Enid, OK where he grew up. He married Eva C. Barker (Katy) on September 7, 1941 and they...
Irma Caloca De Otero
Dec 25, 2017
Irma Caloca de Otero, age 91, of Clermont, passed away December 25, 2017.
Vivian Cox Henderson
Dec 22, 2017
Vivian Lillian Cox Henderson was born on November 9, 1933 in Montverde, Florida, to James Edwin Cox and Pauline Gideons Cox. She passed away in Clermont, FL on December 22, 2017. Her daughters were blessed to be with her when she said goodbye. Vivian was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene "Bud" Henderson; her sister Virginia Roane of Clermont;...
Luvenia Rechell Hart
Dec 22, 2017
Luvenia Rechell Hart, 54, passed on Thursday, December 21, 2017, in her home in Clermont, Florida. She was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana on January 1, 1963 to McCauley Hart and Helen Plummer Hart. Luvenia's parents preceded her in death along with her brothers, Donice Garrett Jr., Joshua Garrett, Jimmy Garrett, and Bernard Garrett.
Luvenia spent her life...
Edith Graves Keys
Dec 20, 2017
Edith Graves Keys, of Tavares, Florida, was born June 11th, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii to her parents Herbert S. Graves and Ella Rae Shealy. As the daughter of a Navy Captain, she grew up on military bases in the northeast until the family made its way to settle in Winter Haven, Florida. Edie received her degree in interior design from...
James Richard Dyer
Dec 20, 2017
James Richard Dyer, born at home on October 28, 1934 in Redford Township, Michigan, passed peacefully in his Clermont residence on December 20, 2017, after long term medical complications.
Jim was a graduate of Washington University and a retired Architect. Although being from Michigan, he spent over half of his life in Florida, a state he loved. ...
Kim Patricia Ambrose
Dec 19, 2017
Kim P. Ambrose, age 60, of Clermont FL, passed away on Tuesday December 19, 2017. She was born to the late George and Helen Eiden on January 8, 1957. On May 9, 1981 Kim married her husband Edward, they lived in Queens, New York. This is where their daughter Holly was born and raised. Kim moved down to Florida to...
Thomas Dale Erswell
Dec 17, 2017
Thomas Dale Erswell, age 62, Clermont, FL passed away Sunday, December 17, 2017 at home. He was born February 17, 1955 in Toledo, OH son of the late Della Eldora Stevens & Herbert Charles Erswell. Prior to relocating to central Florida in the early '90's, he was a Cement Mason/Finisher Local 886 Toledo. His grandmother Florence Stevens preceded him in...
David H Pierson
Dec 15, 2017
David H. Pierson, age 66, Clermont, passed away December 15, 2017. He was born January 29, 1951 in Lafayette, IN son of Sally Schaible & Walter H. Pierson. He retired from the US Navy as an E5 2nd Class Petty Officer and was a central Florida resident since 1991. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by...
Ann Marie Gray
Dec 15, 2017
Ann M. "Nancy" Gray, age 77, of Clermont, passed away December 15, 2017.
Olen Barney Quilling
Dec 13, 2017
Olen B. Quilling, 78, of Webster, FL, passed away Wednesday, December 13,  2017. Olen was born on August 27, 1939 in Orlando, FL, son of J.B. and Lucille Quilling.  He moved to Sumter County in 1948. He was a veteran of the United States Army-AUS-Infantry. His last assignment was at USMA West Point NY and was discharged with Honorable Service...
Max Nevin Anderson
Dec 7, 2017
Max N. Anderson, 79, passed away peacefully and suddenly on December 7, 2017. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio on July 31, 1938, the 2 nd son of the late Clark and Genevieve Anderson. His older brother, Billy Kevin, was just a few months old when he passed away. Max graduated from Millersport High School in 1956. He was...
Walter Theophilus Taylor
Dec 5, 2017
Walter Theophilus Taylor, 79, of Astatula, FL, passed away Tuesday, December 5, 2017. Â Walter was born on May 23, 1938 in Winnsboro, Louisiana, son of Robert and Elsie Mae Taylor. Â He was retired from the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4 and serving during the Vietnam War. Â He had resided in Central Florida since 1998 previously...
Andrew Matthew Schwandt
Dec 4, 2017
Andrew Matthew Schwandt, of Clermont, FL, unexpectedly passed away Monday, December 4, 2017 at age 17. Andrew was born in Maplewood, MN on November 1, 2000, where he grew up, before moving to Florida for high school. Andrew was a Junior at Lake Minneola High School, with an amazing future that he worked so hard to get. He was incredibly...
Milton Edward "Bud" Longworth
Dec 3, 2017
Milton "Bud" Edward Longworth, 83, passed away Sunday, December 3, 2017 at the Wilson Hospice House in Albany, Georgia after a valiant fight against Leukemia. His loving and devoted wife, Sylvia was with him when he passed. Bud was born on August 18, 1934 in Washington, D.C., the son of Milton and Ruth (Mamber) Longworth. He served in the United...
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