Obituaries

Mar 1, 2014

Alice Laverne Risher set aside her earthly tent on Saturday, March 1, 2014, almost a week after her 90th birthday. She resided in Mossy Head, Florida, and passed after a short convalescence at Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in DeFuniak Springs. Alice was born in 1924 in Tampa, Florida to Norman Walter and Margeret Clara Price. She attended Jefferson High...

Feb 28, 2014

Missy Nelson, age 56, long time resident of Ponce deLeon, Florida passed away suddenly Friday, February 28, 2014 at her home. She was born July 18, 1957 in Mt. Pleasant, New Jersey the oldest daughter of Richard Francis Higgins, Sr. and Ramona Alice Wardell Higgins. She eventually moved to Walton County, Florida where she lived out the last years of...

Feb 24, 2014

Mrs. Janet Bullard Campbell age 85, passed away Monday evening in Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. She was born November 6, 1928 in DeFuniak Springs, the daughter of Albert Fletcher Bullard, Sr. and Mary Virginia Cumming Bullard. Janet had that rare quality of being a sweet and understanding person while at the same time being someone who could take...

Feb 23, 2014

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Mrs. Catherine Kay Kelly Claussen, age 86 of DeFuniak Springs passed away Sunday morning, February 23, 2014 in Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, surrounded by her family. She was born March, 28, 1927 the daughter of Marion Butler Kelley and Ethel Beatrice Williams Kelley. Kay worked in the restaurant industry most of her life and will be remembered...

Feb 17, 2014

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Mrs. Ann Hunt, age 73 of the New Harmony Community of North Walton County passed away in the early morning hours of Monday, February 17, 2014 at the family residence surrounded by family and friends. She was born August 7, 1940 in Euchee Valley the daughter of Jeffie Calvin Floyd and Mary MaeBell Pippins Floyd. Mrs. Hunt is...

Feb 14, 2014

Walter Kelly Parris lovingly known as Kelly, age 83 of McCaysville, Georgia passed away Friday, February 14th, 2014. Kelly was a native of Guntersville, Alabama, moved to DeFuniak Springs, Florida in 1947 as a senior football star where he met Annyce Caswell who became his sweetheart and future wife. They graduated in 1948 and moved on to different colleges. His...

Feb 7, 2014

Mr. Donald Russell Frost passed away two weeks after his 83rd birthday in Chautauqua Rehabilitationa and Nursing Center. He was born January 23, 1931 in Stoneham, Massachusettes the son of Bernard William Frost and Eva May Hatch Frost. Mr. Frost donated his body to science through an Anatomical Donation to the University of Florida in Gainesville. This important act contributes...

Feb 3, 2014

Heaven took another angel home today. Deonna “DeDe” Reynolds slipped into eternal peace February 3, 2014 at Healthmark Regional Medical Center, hosted in love by the wonderful, caring ICU staff and Dr. James Howell. Her last days were blessed with such love. DeDe was born March 11, 1962 at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, to David Kent Reynolds and...

Jan 24, 2014

Mrs. Donna Kaye Crim Floyd, a lifelong resident of Walton County passed away early Friday morning, January 24, 2014, just twenty seven days after her 54th birthday at the family residence. She was born December 27, 1959 on Eglin Air Force Base, the daughter of Donald and Betty Lou Nelson Crim. After graduating from Walton Senior High School with...

Jan 11, 2014

Mr. Charles Maurice Miller, age 72 passed away Saturday, January 11, 2014 in North Okaloosa Medical Center. He was born September 17, 1941 the son of George and Effie White Miller. Charles has a great love for classic country music. He was an accomplished musician and played professionally with Pappy Neal and Earl McCormick from the young age of 13...

Jan 10, 2014

Mr. Bernard Charles Fox, Sr. age 91 of DeFuniak Springs and Cincinnati, Ohio passed away at the home of his daughter Friday, January 10, 2014. He was born October 27, 1922 in Cincinnati Ohio the son of Bernard Charles Fox and Edna Arata Fox. Mr. Fox was a well known attorney in Cincinnati and founded and owned his own Law...

Jan 9, 2014

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Mrs. Elisabeth Groeschel Hall, age 94, passed away Thursday, January 9, 2014 at her home in DeFuniak Springs. She was born November 19, 1919 in Garmisch, Germany the daughter of Karl Neff and Anna Groeschel. Once, as a young girl of about ten years old Elisabeth and two other girls had been in the countryside picking flowers and...

Dec 24, 2013

Mr. Royce M. “Poochie” Griffith, age 78 passed away suddenly in the late afternoon of December 24, 2013 at his family residence in Gaskin. He was born August 31, 1935 in Samson, Alabama, the son of Malcolm and Alice Ray Griffith. He is predeceasded by his parents and his daughter, Deborah Griffith Alford; his sisters, Bertha Mitchell, Eunice Conwill and...

Dec 22, 2013

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Mrs. Betty Davis Burney, age 86, a resident of DeFuniak Springs since 1996 passed away at the family residence Sunday, December 22, 2013. She was born March 24, 1927 in Fredericktown, Ohio the daughter of Orly Lee Davis and Anna Myrtle Walker Davis. Betty graduated from Fredericktown High School with the Class of 1945. In 1948 she met...

Dec 16, 2013

Scott Chaney, 65, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 16th, 2013. Scott’s infectious personality garnered him many friends. He was loved by all who knew him. He was a devoted, loving husband and sustained by his Christian faith in God. Scott was also a passionate patriot, his service in the Navy showed his devotion and his love for America. Services...

Nov 30, 2013

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Mrs. Inez Johnson Bracewell, age 84 passed away Saturday evening, November 30, 2013 in Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. She was born August 27, 1929 in Hacoda, Alabama the youngest of eight children born to J. W. “Jim” Johnson and Mattie Lou Alford Johnson. She met and married Clifford Lamar Bracewell on April 7, 1951, a marriage that...

Nov 26, 2013

Mrs. Empress Carter Dawson, age 94 went to be with her Lord and Savior Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at her home in Crestview. She was born December 5, 1918 in Danville, Virginia to the late Robert Oscar Carter and Sallie Waddell Carter. She graduated from Bartlett Yancy High School in May of 1937. She married William McSween Dawson from Niceville,...

Nov 24, 2013

Mr. G. B. Bracewell, age 75 passed away in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 24, 2013 in Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. He was born October 23, 1938 in Westville, the son of Curtis Gillis Bracewell and Annie Elizabeth Burdick Bracewell. G.B. attended school in Liberty and Valleyview. He worked in lawncare and landscaping and those who knew...

Nov 22, 2013

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Elaine Faulkner, age 94 of DeFuniak Springs, formerly of Jacksonville, passed away Friday, November 22, 2013 in Healthmark Regional Medical Center. She was born December 29, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Earl George Flores and Kathryn Lukeman Flores. At age 5, she moved with her family from Albany, New York to Jacksonville where she lived...

Nov 15, 2013

Isoble Orella “Rella" Bower Bierbower, age 84 of DeFuniak Springs passed away late Friday afternoon, November 15, 2013 in Stanley House Assisted Living. She was born in Hopewood, Pennsylvania the daughter of Andrew “Andy” George Bower and Isobel Orella Graham Dixon Bower. After graduating in 1950 from Uniontown Hospital School of Nursing she worked at various hospitals and finished...