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Evelyn Millis Duvall started earning her reputation as a pioneer in the field of family development in 1947 when she was organizing director of the first White House Conference on [...]

Donald A. Mosier, 105, who was considered the oldest World War I veteran in Southwest Florida, said he lived through the sinking of three ships, imprisonment and the accidental detonation [...]

Charles E. Furbee Sr. became executive director of the West Coast Inland Navigation District in 1969, soon after the agency's intercoastal waterway was completed. Although Furbee was not faced with [...]

Ella Cook Hoffman, a longtime Sarasota County teacher who oversaw Riverview High School's English department for years, died Wednesday in Louisiana. Hoffman was a teacher at the school when it [...]

Fifty years ago, circus tent makers commonly started their careers in the sailmaking business. But Butch Troyer walked into tent making with no experience after serving in the Army during [...]

In his youth, John L. Houle hunted deer on Sarasota land where the Bobby Jones Golf Complex was later built. As an adult, he served as a Sarasota County commissioner [...]

A few years after Hubert Lee Webb's son became a quadriplegic, he left his pastorate at a church in St. Cloud to help his son further his education. 'He gave [...]

At 73, Patrick W. Gallagher was considered a world-class runner. He was ranked among the best runners in his age group by the national magazine 'Running Times,' said Lynette Ferreira, [...]

Dr. Helena T. Fedukowicz spent her life helping people see. She lost most of her own eyesight to macular degeneration in her old age, but she continued to receive recognition [...]

Loren 'Larry' Johnson Vulte was one of the first civilian pilots to qualify on a Boeing-747. He flew for more than 30 years, including flying rescue missions to Bangladesh during [...]

Jim Terry Sr. was a Republican leader in Sarasota at the beginning of the party's 25-year growth spurt. He was president of the Sarasota County Young Republican Club and chairman [...]

At 72, Martin A.E. Bloomquist was tired of playing 50-year-olds in tennis tournaments. So he decided to start a 70-over tournament. He found the place, the Sarasota Bath & Racquet [...]

Murray Gray had a great appreciation for the Japanese. He often told his children about the wonderful time he spent in Japan, with Japanese and westerners alike. He told his [...]

Edythe Irene Myers left her imprint on Venice area history. A member of a Laurel pioneer family, she kept the records of the Venice Area Old Timers and helped maintain [...]

Ivan H. Groom believed that the key to long life was keeping busy. During the 95 years of his life, he set a good example by managing nine dairy stores [...]

In 1919, Louise and Alan Parmelee left their hometown of Ansonia, Conn., to honeymoon and to start a new life in Java, Dutch East Indies. It was not only a [...]

Betty 'Liz' Repulski taught generations of students to write better. Generations of teachers have used her methods. Daniel Kennedy, the principal of Sarasota High School, said she was 'probably the [...]

George Leslie Ragan became interested in physics after a University of Florida professor recognized the physicist in him. Ragan went on to work on cutting-edge projects with worldwide implications, developing [...]

Menno Swartzentruber was chosen by his congregation to draw lots. He said he was chosen by God to become an Amish minister. In the Amish church, a number of men [...]

Byline: Bonnie A. Frey STAFF WRITER James Mullen found out he had prostate cancer in the mid-1980s, a time when there was little information readily available about the disease. When [...]

Richard C. Ball approached photography from all angles, but his wife, Vera Elizabeth, said he preferred the artistic side. Ball was a photojournalist for several large newspapers, worked in several [...]

You could say that Garnet Stottlemyer helped build Sarasota. When he came down in 1945, he was a devout angler who adored the water, and he fell in love with [...]

Byline: Bonnie A. Frey STAFF WRITER When Anthony Vendola was about 10 years old, his parents launched him on a show business career that eventually landed him in the troupe [...]

Just as Harry D. Thorsen Jr. was inspired by his hero, Boy Scouts founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell, so he hoped to inspire today's youths. To do so, he began a [...]

Walter B. Miller used to tell his daughter that the secret to living long was eating lots of sweets and grease. His daughter, Barbara Anton, thinks his secret was working [...]

Although Joy Levy never joined a police force, she had a talent for stopping crime. As early as 1988, when she founded the Manatee County Crime Stoppers chapter, she was [...]

The Rev. Dorothy Graff Flexer fought prejudice to establish Shrine of the Master in Sarasota - both as a Metaphysical Christian and as a woman. Older than many mainstream churches [...]

Eric Ray Edgerton served on the Venice Planning Commission when its members were making first-time decisions to regulate development in the city. His role went beyond approving decisions, though. 'He [...]

Emanuel M. Pupulidy was a risk-taker - both physically and financially. He raced motorcycles and cars, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and started a business that became a multimillion-dollar distributorship. As a [...]

Over a span of 102 years, Ruth C. Villers experienced a great deal of history first-hand. She and her husband, Ernest, left Shanghai for safer shores in Hawaii during the [...]

The acts that Maria Orsola Delbosq performed in were almost always center-ring. A sixth-generation circus performer with the Loyal Repensky Troupe, she performed a bareback riding act that included human [...]

The Rev. John H. Shenk possessed two qualities that made a good minister: He knew his Bible and gave good advice. According to the Rev. Paul R. Yoder Sr., Shenk [...]

During the last days that Siesta Key was a backward coastal area, Chester 'Chet' Whitehorn brought class to residents in his Pelican Press humor column. A seasoned writer from Greenwich [...]

After her parents ruled out a nursing career for Catherine Toale Christian, she found a new interest in the funeral business. She became the first woman licensed in embalming in [...]

Zefta Loyal Bowman was as skilled an entertainer as she was an acrobat. One of the few women who could perform somersaults while atop a horse, she made sure audiences [...]

Ruth Zuckerman, or 'RUZU' as she signed her work, sculpted figures that portrayed the relationships between people. By sculpting more than one figure, she avoided the feeling of isolation that [...]

Floritta Richards was never alone. She always had children with her. Once she had raised her 11 children, she continued to take care of her 60 grandchildren, 107 great-grandchildren and [...]

Margaret V. Wilson's favorite role was not what she played beside Al Jolson or Ed Wynn, but the one she played during World War II. She had been a show [...]

Children benefit from his work whenever they peer into the binocular-like instruments he devised to test their reading skills. College students benefit from his work when they attend reading efficiency [...]

James 'Jimmy' R. Spanos served on the Sarasota County Commission when Gulf Gate was still an orange grove and U.S. 301 ended at Main Street, said former Sarasota Mayor Jack [...]

As a draftee during World War I, Enos Stutzman would be trained to kill his enemy. As a Mennonite, he believed it was against God's will to kill another human [...]