The Boca Beacon remembers and honors those members of our community who died in 2025.
We invite readers to go online at the end of this year to pause, reflect and celebrate the legacies of those…
David Albert Jenkins, 84 died peacefully on December 12, 2025, watching the sun set on the Gulf of Mexico from his home in Boca Grande. His loving and supportive children, Dave and Bonnie, and his d…
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Thomas C. McDermott, who left us on December 7, 2025 at the age of 89. Surrounded by his loving family, he passed away peacefully at his h…
Born May 28, 1937, in Abington, Pennsylvania to Emily Squibb Colehower and Harry Howard Colehower, Bill was raised in a close family that loved one another deeply.
In 1959, he married Tina Ullber…
Barry Lohmeyer Stout passed away at her home in Augusta, Georgia, after a prolonged illness. She was born on March 25, 1942, in Baltimore, Maryland. After attending The Calvert School and The Bryn M…
Sarah Sharp Farish passed away on November 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida, surrounded by her family.
Raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Sarah was the daughter of Mary and Bayard Sharp. In…
On the 18th of November, Cheryl Midyett of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Boca Grande, passed on to the realm of peace and eternal love. On Easter Sunday of 1944, the daughter of Albert Gustav and Janice…
Robert A. Dishman, Ph.D., of Chatham, MA and Boca Grande, FL, passed away on September 27, 2025, at the age of 81. Born on May 7, 1944, in Miami, FL, to the late Robert and Ann Dishman. Bob spent hi…
Lewis L. Hamilton, M.D. of Boca Grande, FL and Salisbury, CT died peacefully at home in Salisbury on July 20, 2025 surrounded by his loving family and his dog at his feet. He was 85 and lived an ext…
David John Williams of East Haddam, Conn., and Boca Grande, Fla., passed away on November 2, 2025, after a courageous battle with metastasized melanoma.
David was born on July 4, 1942, in Danvill…
