Obituaries
Remembering Bobby Sullivan…
July 17, 2020
STAFF REPORT- A son of Boca Grande – Bobby Sullivan – passed away on Monday, July 13. He will be missed by many. “Bobby and I graduated together from Boca Grande High School, we were teammates on …
Obituary: Mary Whiteside
July 17, 2020
Mary Charlotte Herrington Whiteside, age 90, passed away suddenly on March 8, 2020 due to complications of the Covid-19 virus pandemic in Kirkland, Washington. Unfortunately, she was in a rehabilit…
Obituary: Doris Russell
July 3, 2020
Doris Russell, 61, a longtime resident of Rotonda, passed away on June 19, 2020. For the past 30 plus years, Doris has overseen the care of multiple properties and assisted several families at Boc…
Obituary: William Lee Bentley Jr.
June 19, 2020
William Lee Bentley, Jr., Bill to all his family and friends, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2020 from ALS. He was at his home surrounded by his loving family, which was so important to him. Bil…
OBITUARY: George ‘Ashley’ Gray
June 12, 2020
George “Ashley” Gray, 48, of Venice, Florida, passed on May 27, 2020, as a result of a motorcycle accident near Woodsboro, Maryland. Born on June 7, 1971 in Washington, DC, he was the son to Mason …
A straw hat, a twinkling eye and a smile: A documentation of the passing of Marguerite East
June 5, 2020
BY MARCY SHORTUSE- There are few woman in any first-world country who could sit at the finest table in the finest home, and casually discuss how she skinned a goat on board a cruise ship to the Gal…
OBITUARY: Marguerite Agnes East
June 5, 2020
Marguerite Agnes East passed away on April 27, 2020, at the age of 105, in Fort Myers, Florida. Marguerite was born on November 7, 1914 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the third of nine children b…
OBITUARY: Jack Richard Wittkamp
May 29, 2020
Jack Richard Wittkamp, 91, of Boca Grande and Allendale, N.J., passed away peacefully on May 18, 2020 in Boca Grande, with family members by his side. Jack leaves behind his daughter, Donna Henry (…
OBITUARY: Maribeth Cunningham
May 22, 2020
Maribeth Ann Perry Cunningham passed away peacefully at her home in Boca Grande on May, 17, 2020. She was born at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Ill. on November 19, 1934, to U.S. District Court…
OBITUARY: Virginia ‘Bina’ Charman
May 15, 2020
Virginia Osborne Charman, of Hunting Valley, Ohio and Boca Grande, died April 1, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio at age 96. Known to her family and friends as Bina, she and her three older sisters Annette…