Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 19:00
Born and raised on a cattle ranch near Silverton, Texas, Bethel attended Southern Methodist University where she met and married Leslie Turner, a commercial artist. During their 65 years of marriage, they lived in New York City in the 1920's and in a sod house on a Colorado sheep ranch during the Depression. In 1938, they settled in Orlando, where Mr. Turner drew the comic strip Captain Easy, syndicated in 500 newspapers. They raised three daughters. A drawing by a family friend of their daughter, Ann, became the internationally recognized trademark of Gerber Baby Foods.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:49
Sara Harbottle Howden began her career at Rollins as a student, graduating in 1935 with a bachelor's degree in government/history. A Dayton, Ohio, native, she returned to Winter Park in 1947 to work at her alma mater, serving over the years as dean of women, associate dean of students, director of community programs, as an organizing member of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum's board of visitors and a member of the college board of trustees.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:19
Clara Elizabeth Wendel, Orlando Public Library's first head librarian in its current building, died December 19, 1995 in Harvey, Illinois.
Clara served as head librarian in Orlando for 28 years. When she retired in 1970, Mayor Carl T. Langford proclaimed a Clara Wendel Day in her honor.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:53
Born in Kissimmee, Kathryn was a lifelong resident of Central Florida. She was a member of First Methodist Church of Winter Park. She was a former president of Winter Park Woman's Club and member of the Board of Trustees of Winter Park Memorial Hospital and Winter Park Public Library Board. Survivors: daughters, Jane M. Dommerich, Palm Beach, Ann Saurman, Winter Park; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Carey Hand Cox Parker Funeral Home, Winter Park.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:42
Edna W Buckman was a homemaker and a member of Park Lake Presbyterian Church, she also belonged to Rosalind Club of Orlando. She moved to Orlando in 1983. Survivors: sons, Charles T., Quincy, Ill., James W., Flossmoor, Ill.; sister, Clara E. Wendel, Orlando. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Orlando.
Edna is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando along with her parents and her sister Clara Elizabeth Wendel. The site Find A Grave indicates her date of death is July 30 and the obituary indicates it is July 31.
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Submitted by Muffygoo on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 12:42
One of the best things that happened to our family was when Gail became a McGinely!
We were so lucky she married Jimmy and together they brought into this world five beautiful children. She was the best daughter, sister, wife, mother, mother-in-law and most of all the BEST GiGi to all of her beautiful grandchildren.
In addition to being all that she was also a great friend and there was nothing Gail wouldn't do for anyone! She was always there to help.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 11:41
Elsie McCoy ''Sis'' Eidson, an Orlando native who was one of the founders of the organization that grew into the Orlando Opera Company, died Sunday of a heart attack. She was 65.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 11:22
Miss Margaret Piper was a civic worker, world traveler and art and music figure. Margaret had been a resident of the Orlando and Winter Park area since 1941. Born in Montclair, N.J., she was educated in Australia. She divided her time among Florida, New York and New England states, with travels in England and France until 1941. She served on the boards of Sorosis, the Orange County Chapter of American Red Cross, Young Women's Community Club, Community Chest and the Central Florida Branch of the English-Speaking Union.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:54
Billie Eva "Bopeep" Shell Ward was born in Hickory, NC on June 8, 1925 to Eva and William Shell. At the age of nine, her family moved from Tampa to Orlando, Florida, at which point she met Frederick James Ward, her future husband. She attended Hillcrest Elementary, Cherokee Junior High School and Orlando Senior High School. She graduated from Florida State College for Women, later known as Florida State University, where she majored in Social Work, and was President of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. In 1947 she married her childhood friend, Fred Ward.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:44
Annette "Netsy" McKinney Scott passed away on July 7, 1992. Netsy was an interior designer from 1948 to 1972 and was one of the most well-respected members of the design community. She served as adviser to the Opera Gala Guild Designers' Show Houses, and was consultant for the restoration of the Harry P. Leu House in Leu Botanical Gardens in the early 1980s. Mrs. Scott helped many beginning designers learn the business and establish themselves in the community. She was one of the founding members of the Florida chapter of the American Society of Interior Design.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 18:36
Florence "Flo" Neidig passed away Sunday, October 3 at the age of 96. She was born July 6, 1914 in Detroit, MI to David and Lula Southmayd Harper. She attended the University of Michigan and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work. She married Egbert W. "Bert" Neidig and lived in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Kansas City before moving to Orlando in 1958. Flo was active in the League of Women Voters, serving as President of the Orange County League and as a member of the State Board of the League of Women Voters.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:51
Doris Greer Manuel passed away February 19, 2012. She was born in 1927 in Detroit where her Georgia parents had moved to find work. Upon the death of her mother Odessa Loyd Greer, her father James Hays Greer moved Doris and her little sister Judy to Cusseta Georgia where the two girls were raised by their aunt and uncle, Mabel and Bill Zachry. Doris met her future husband Frank J. Manuel when he was an army officer stationed at Ft. Benning and attended her church in nearby Cusseta. They married in 1946 after the Major returned from WWII infantry service in North Africa.
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