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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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:41
Emily Bavar Kelly broke one of the biggest stories in Central Florida history when she was an editor at the Orlando Sentinel. In 1965, she discovered and wrote that it was Walt Disney who was buying thousands of acres of rural land southwest of Orlando, and that he planned to build a new theme park there.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:33
Betsy Holloway died on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. She was born in Durham, NC, on April 4, 1938, the only child of Joseph Ira and Ruth Gates McBroom. After attending the Durham public schools and graduating from Durham High School, she received her B.A. degree in English from Duke University in 1958.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:55
Virginia Collins Bryan, a volunteer for numerous civic and church organizations, died Monday at Orlando Regional Medical Center from complications of Parkinson's disease. Virginia was a fifth-generation Floridian from a pioneer Umatilla citrus family in Lake County. She was an active member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church and numerous charitable groups.
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Submitted by Fischer on Mon, 09/14/2015 - 15:44
Friends and family remember Grace Warlow Barr as a vivacious, fun-loving woman who was a gracious hostess, a good cook and a loving mother and friend. An Orlando native and lifelong resident, Grace was perhaps best known for her cooking. As a Sentinel editor, she wrote columns and shared her recipes with readers during a newspaper career that spanned 27 years. In 1971 Sentinel-Star Publications released a compilation of her recipes in a cookbook, Cooking with Grace.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sun, 09/13/2015 - 18:49
Orlando lost one of its greatest philanthropists with the death of Gracia Andersen, widow of former Orlando Sentinel publisher Martin Andersen. Mrs. Andersen donated millions of dollars to cultural and nonprofit organizations in the Orlando area. She preferred to make her gifts without fanfare, but now that she has passed, she is receiving the recognition she shunned in life.
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Submitted by Fischer on Sun, 09/13/2015 - 17:54
Nancy Hardy Harberger died peacefully on December 31, 2011 after a long illness. Nancy was born June 21, 1925 in Augusta, Georgia, she was the daughter of Dr. Eric West Hardy and Madolon Moore Hardy. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, she had resided in Orlando since 1952. Early in her adult life Nancy combined a love of the outdoors with keen organizational skills as staff member with the Girl Scouts of America, serving as Executive Director in Columbus, Georgia, and Assistant Director in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Submitted by rudy0924 on Tue, 09/08/2015 - 15:02
Eunice Mae Counts, age 77 years, entered eternal life July 1, 2005 in Tulsa, OK. She was born February 9, 1928 in Wymore, NE, to Floyd and Gladys (Sprague) Philippi. Eunice married the love of her life, Earl N. Counts, April 10, 1948 in Tulsa. She was a wonderful homemaker and longtime member of Metro Faith Christian Church. She always had ice cream at her house for her beloved grandchildren and she never stopped waving from the porch until you were out of sight.
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Submitted by cgwoods on Sat, 08/29/2015 - 01:21
Harry Edwin Behnamann was born in Sigourney, Iowa, on March 17, 1892. His parents were Louis Diedrich Behnamann (born 2 August 1871) and Bertha Elizabeth Gann (born 28 October 1871 in Germany). He had one brother Alfred Leo who never married but worked for the railroad.
Harry's father Louis was labeled a laborer (plowshare) in the 1900 census, and worked in the Rock Island Arsenal in 1910.
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