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Ronald Bonnell
Memorial graveside services for Ronald Gregory Bonnell, 45, St. Augustine, who died July 26, 1998, at the St. Johns Health Care Center, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Evergreen Cemetery.
Survivors include four children, Christine, Tammy, T.J. and Richard; his mother, Betty Boyd, two sisters, Doneen Morrison and Carol Whitman, a brother, Gary Bonnell, his maternal grandmother, Pauline Thompson, St. Augustine; and one grandchild.
Craig Funeral Home is in charge.
Margaret Swift
Margaret (Peggy) Sarratt Swift, 62, St. Augustine, died of cancer Aug. 2, 1998, at her home. She was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and she received her bachelor's degree from Winthrop College in 1958 and her master's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1960. She retired to St. Augustine in 1991 from the National Institutes of Health, where she worked for nine years in the Dental Institute. While in St. Augustine, she worked as a lab technician at the Whitney Marine Laboratory and wrote two genealogy books about her family. She was a member of the Genealogy Club, registrar for the Maria Jefferson Chapter, DAR, and a member of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
Funeral services will be under the direction of the McIntosh Funeral Home, Cuba, N.Y., with burial in Cuba Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Genealogy Department, Cuba Library, Cuba N.Y.
Survivors include her husband, Ellsworth R. Swift; two sons, Douglas C. Swift, Martinsburg, W.Va., Thomas K. Swift, Braddock Heights, Md.; a daughter, Amy Swift Autz, Elkridge, Md.; one brother, retired Col. Robert R. Sarratt, Alexandria, Va.; three sisters, Mrs. Paul (Ann) Goodman, LaGrange, N.C., Mrs. William (Barbara) Anderson, Charleston, S.C., Mrs. Lee (Dale) Howard, Allen, Texas. She was predeceased by a son, Steven Sarratt Swift, in 1992.
Clay Funeral Home, Green Cove Springs, is in charge of arrangements.
Olive Vee Wilson
Funeral services for Olive Vee Wilson, 83, St. Augustine, who died Aug. 1, 1998, at BayView/Samantha Wilson Care Center, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Craig Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. Lucy Norton officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at Craig chapel from 6 to 8 p.m. today.
Flowers are gratefully accepted, or those wishing may make a contribution, in her memory, to the Samantha Wilson Care Center Auxiliary, c/o A.M. Davis, 40 Grant St., St. Augustine, 32084.
Kenneth Helms
Kenneth V. Helms, 77, died at Flagler Hospital East Aug. 1, 1998. He was born in Hempstead, N.Y., beloved husband for 51 years of Janice, devoted father of Dr. Richard and Susan Helms of Memphis, Tenn., Donna and Woody Snyder, Round Hill, Va., and Robin and Jeffrey Hamrick, Centerville, Ohio; much loved grandfather of Kristie, Sherwood and Amy Snyder, Matthew and Nathan Helms, Janice and Laurie Stoehr and Jeremy Hamrick. A loved brother of Marjorie and Richard Beckwith and Donald and Jean Sohl.
A veteran of World War II, he served for four years in the 6th Air Force. He was a talented carpenter, fix-it man, artist and a member of the National Wood Carvers Association. He spent 43 years working for NCR and was a publications manager when he retired. He started his career in the NYC area, but spent the last 25 years in Dayton, Ohio.
He was a golfer who enjoyed the St. Johns County Golf Course, and had, during his many years of playing, two aces.
He was a member of Memorial Lutheran Church in St. Augustine, where Dr. Kerry Hinkley will conduct his memorial service at 4 p.m. Wednesday. All are invited.
For those who would like to remember him, a gift to the Kenneth Helms Scholarship Program for pre-school children would be appreciated. Please bring or mail checks to Memorial Lutheran Church, 3375 U.S. 1 South, St. Augustine, 32086.
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione, 81, died Aug. 7, 1998, at her home. She was born in Perth Amboy, N.J. She was of the Catholic faith.
Friends may call Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Craig Funeral Home. A private burial will be held on Wednesday.
Survivors include her daughter, Melinda Decker of Leesburg.
Orilla Y. Dyess
Orilla Y. Dyess, 92, died Aug. 7, 1998, at the Putman County Medical Center in Palatka following a brief illness.
She was born in Darien, Ga., and had been a lifelong resident of the Hastings and Palatka area. She was a member of the Lemon Heights Baptist Church in Palatka and the St. Augustine Chapter No.12 of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter D. Dyess.
Mark Fretwell
Memorial services for Mark Edward Fretwell will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Episcopal Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations, in his memory, to TREES, POB 4133, St. Augustine, 32085, for the acquisition of the Fleeman Tract.
Mr. Fretwell was born in Jacksonville, and he owned a lumber yard there and was a member of a group called Mensheviki. Through that group, he met and became a friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. He later lived in West Point, Ga., where he was a founder and the first president of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. He discovered the location of a 1690 Spanish fort on the Chattahoochee River. After retirement, he moved to St. Augustine, where he was president of the St. Augustine Historical Society and editor of the society's annual journal, ``El Escribano.'' He was the author of two books, ``This So Remote Frontier: The Chattahoochee Country of Alabama and Georgia,'' and ``West Point: The Story of a Georgia Town.'' Both received a certificate of commendation from the American Association for State and Local History. He received a medal from the Historic Chattahoochee Commission in recognition of his writing on the history of the Chattahoochee Valley. He also had articles published in various historical journals.
Survivors include his wife, Jacqueline; stepdaughters, Rebecca Kitchell, Ellen Moseley, St. Augustine; one sister, Evelyn Harris, Jacksonville; and several nieces and nephews.
Croyle Funeral Home is in charge.
Maxine Thigpen
Maxine Cason Thigpen, 76, Hastings, died Aug. 6, 1998, at Flagler Hospital East. She was born in Jennings, and she had resided in Hastings for the past 51 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hastings, and she was a former member of the Eastern Star. Three years ago, she retired from her beauty shop business.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, Newton Edward Thigpen. He died April 3, 1998.
A memorial celebration of Mrs. Thigpen's life will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Hastings, with the Rev. Charles Johnson and Elder Jimmy Lee Lewis officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Holy Church of Zion, Route 1-Box 144, Armstrong, 32145, c/o Elder Jimmy Lee Lewis, or to the First Baptist Church Agape Youth Choir, Hastings.
Survivors include a son, Michael Thigpen, Marineland; daughters, Candace Parnell, Coral Springs, Cynthia Drawdy, Hastings; one sister, Geraldine McCall nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Watts Funeral Home and Crematory, San Mateo, is in charge.
Edward L. "E.L." Williams
Edward L. "E.L." Williams, 65, West Orange Street, died Aug. 6, 1998, at the Samantha Wilson Health Care Center.
A native of Avon Park, Fl., he had resided in St. Augustine for 20 years. He was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include two daughters, Elona Williams, Haines City, and Evelyn Williams, Palatka; and a son, Edward Williams, Haines City.
Chase and Son Funeral Home will announce services.
Gaetano "Tom" Zambrano
Gaetano "Tom" Zambrano, 90, died Aug. 7, 1998, at Flagler Hospital East in St. Augustine. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge No. 541, Dover, N.J.
Survivors include two sons, Thomas P. Zambrano, St. Augustine, and Matthew R. Zambrano, Bardonia, N.Y.; a sister, Louise Delfino, Staten Island, N.Y.; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the Joseph W. Source Funeral Home in West Nyack, N.Y. Burial will be at St. Johns Cemetery in Queens, N.Y.
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione, 81, St. Augustine died Aug. 7, 1998 at her home.
Friends may call Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Craig Funeral Home. A private burial will be held on Wednesday.
Sister Mary Dennis
Sister Mary Dennis Lyne, SSJ, 86, died Aug. 8, 1998, at Lourdes Hall, St. Augustine. For the past eight years, she had been a resident of Lourdes Hall, home for the ailing and retired Sisters of St. Joseph. She was born in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, and she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1938.
She served as principal, teacher and librarian in schools throughout Florida, including St. Benedict, St. Agnes, Cathedral Parish, St. Joseph Academy, all in St. Augustine; Bishop Kenny, Jacksonville, St. Mary's, Immaculata High School, Gesu School, Miami; St. Theresa School, Coral Gables; St. Stephen School, Miramar; St. Juliana School, West Palm Beach; Sacred Heart School, Lake Worth; St. James School, Orlando; and Most Holy Redeemer School, Tampa.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and a vigil prayer services will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Both will be in the chapel at St. Joseph Convent. Burial will be in San Lorenzo Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may make a contribution, in her memory, to the Sisters of St. Joseph Development Fund, to be used for the needs of the Sisters of St. Joseph Retirement Home and the ministries of the Sisters, POB 3506, St. Augustine, 32085.
Survivors include a sister, Mae Healy, two nieces, Mary Lyne and Bridie Lyne Spillane, nephews and many grandnieces and nephews, all residing in Killarney.
Craig Funeral Home is in charge.
The Rev. R.E. Brown
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - The Rev. Raymond E. Brown, an influential Roman Catholic biblical scholar, died of a heart attack Saturday, Aug. 8. He was 70.
Brown's career lasted more than four decades, and he authored nearly 40 books over that time. He specialized in commentary on the New Testament.
Ordained a priest in the Diocese of St. Augustine, in 1953, Brown served as an adviser to St. Augustine's Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley at the Second Vatican Council in 1963.
Bishop John J. Snyder, bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, is to represent the diocese at the funeral Aug. 15 in Baltimore.
Brown was the first Catholic in a tenured position at the Union Theological Seminary, where he taught from 1971 until he retired in 1990.
Brown was regarded as a centrist in the field of biblical studies. He had a reputation for being rigorous and exacting in his writings.
In March 1994, he gave a public lecture about the results of his research into biblical accounts of Jesus' crucifixion.
Brown asked that the audience understand that the accounts chronicled in biblical writings were built around a historical memory of Jesus' last days - an explanatory approach that departed from fundamentalism.
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione
Ruth Evelyn Castiglione, 81, St. Augustine, died Aug. 7, 1998, at her home.
Friends may call today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Craig Funeral Home. A private burial will be held on Wednesday.
Bertha LaGree
Bertha Kemp LaGree, 98, 458 W. Fourth St., died Aug. 9, 1998, at the Samantha Wilson Care Center. She was born in South Carolina, and she had resided here for more than 60 years. She was a member of Zion Baptist Church, and she was the mother of the late Council Williams.
Survivors include her husband, Archie LaGree, St. Augustine; one daughter-in-law, Martha Williams, Philadelphia, Pa.; a brother-in-law, Deacon George LaGree, St. Augustine; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, as well as other relatives.
Arrangements will be announced by Chase and Son Funeral Home.
Sister Mary Dennis
Funeral services for Sister Mary Dennis Lyne, SSJ, 86, who died Aug. 8, 1998, at Lourdes Hall, St. Augustine, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and a vigil prayer service will be at 7 p.m. today. Both will be in the chapel at St. Joseph Convent. Burial will be in San Lorenzo Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may make a contribution, in her memory, to the Sisters of St. Joseph Development Fund, to be used for the needs of the Sisters of St. Joseph Retirement Home and the ministries of the Sisters, POB 3506, St. Augustine, 32085.
Craig Funeral Home is in charge.
Irmgard Burse
Irmgard Erika Burse, 75, St. Augustine, died Aug. 10, 1998, at her home. She was born in Germany, and she moved to St. Augustine in 1988 from Oakfield, Wis.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Croyle Funeral Home, with Father Patrick Cook officiating. Burial will be in San Lorenzo Cemetery. Friends may call at Croyle Funeral Home from 6-8 p.m. today.
Survivors include two daughters, Ingrid Hawthorne, Ponte Vedra Beach, Christiane Stover, Granite Shoals, Texas; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Margaret Gehry
Margaret Gehry, 80, St. Augustine, died Aug. 11, 1998, at Vencor Hospital, Green Cove Springs. Arrangements will be announced by Craig Funeral Home.
