Long a fixture of New York City, Palm Beach, Boca Grande and Roxbury, she is survived by her children Albert Richard Diebold, Diane Diebold Terni, and Dudley George Diebold and wife Honoria Hine Diebold; her grandchildren Deborah Diebold de Naveja and husband Juan-Maria Naveja de Anda, Linda Gavel Webb and husband Arthur Heberer III, Daphne Diebold Stoughton and husband James Stoughton, Frank Gavel Jr., and wife Laurie McKee Gavel, Stephen Gavel, and Caitlin Diebold and husband Kevin O’Connell; and great-grandchildren Juan-Maria Naveja Diebold, Thomas Gavel, Charles Webb, Rebecca Gavel.

In addition, Mrs. Diebold leaves behind her dear friends Shirley Gilbert and Olive Simpson, as well as many wonderful nurses and staff in Roxbury and Boca Grande, who gave her kind and loving care for years.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 3, 1905, the former Dorothy Roosen attended the Ogontz School in Pennsylvania, where she excelled in field hockey and book binding and earnestly studied the works of John Glasworthy, before making her debut in New York City and marrying Albert Richard Diebold there in 1931.

A stalwart of the St. James Church altar guild in New York City, as well as that of Christ Church in Roxbury and St. Andrew’s Church in Boca Grande, Mrs. Diebold was an award-winning needle-pointer, who made many beautiful pieces for her churches, including the magnificent kneelers that are used to this day.

She was an active member of the Colony Club for many years. A scratch golfer, Mrs. Diebold particularly enjoyed playing the game at the Washington Club with her mother, when both were well along in years.

She was a member of the Boca Grande Woman’s Club.

She was affectionately known as Mumsie. She will be eulogized on Friday, July 9 at 11 a.m., Christ Church, Roxbury, and all who loved her are welcome. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a memorial contribution to Christ Church, Roxbury or the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department.

He was very active in local community organizations, serving as president of the Punta Gorda Kiwanis Club and president of the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce twice. He was a director and general counsel for the Punta Gorda Isles for nearly 20 years. Drayton was a long time and active member of the First United Methodist Church of Punta Gorda. He regularly fished with Capt. Jimmy Mobley.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Paula (nee Blackwell) Farr; his daughter, Shannon (Nick) Sunseri; grandchildren, Erin Peacock, Maggie Peacock, Caitlyn Peacock and James Drayton “JD” Kaywell; great grandchildren, Avery and Grant Williams; sister, Patti (Dr. Larry) Maggiore, many nieces, nephews and close friends.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, July 9 at the First United Methodist Church, 507 W. Marion Ave, Punta Gorda with burial to follow at Indian Springs Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations in memory of Drayton to the Charlotte County Animal Welfare League, 3519 Drance St. Port Charlotte FL 33980. Please visit kays-ponger.com to leave the family condolences and to sign the online guestbook. Kays-Ponger & Uselton Funeral Home, Punta Gorda,  is in charge of arrangements.

In 1942 she married Princeton graduate, Joseph Ormsby Rutter of Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. and Nantucket, Mass. The couple had four children: Joseph Wood Rutter of Beaufort, S.C., twins Caroline Rutter Frazer of Gloucester, Va., Richard Lovelace Rutter (deceased) and Olivia Rutter Petrasch of Dover, Mass. and Nantucket, Mass. She is also survived by her younger brother, Clarence “Butsy” Shriver five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Mr. Rutter died in 1969.

In 1979 Jinx married Edward C. Brown, Jr. of St. Paul, Minn. and they resided in Boca Grande and Nantucket until they moved to the retirement community of Glenridge on Palmer Ranch in Sarasota. Mr. Brown died in October of last year.

A memorial service was held at the Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota Wednesday, July 7. A memorial service will be held at St. Paul’s Church, Nantucket, for family and friends following which “Jinx” will be interred next to her husband, Joe, and son Rick in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.

The family asks that contributions be made to Calvert School, 105 Tuscany Rd., Baltimore MD 21210 , St. Paul’s Church Nantucket, PO Box 278, Nantucket MA 02554, or the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, PO Box 13, Nantucket MA 02554.

She is survived by two sons, Ralph Padilla of North Carolina and James Padilla of Englewood; a daughter, Judy Grace Fries of North Carolina; A step-son Bobby Sherman of Fort Myers. Five grandchildren: Jenny, Jennifer, Jorge, Brahim and Salima. Six great-grandchildren: Melissa, Amber, Jamie, Gregory, Sebastian and Nadia. One great-great grandchild; Toby.

A funeral service to remember Grace will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 26 at the Lemon Bay Funeral Home at 2 Buchan’s Landing, Englewood.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Suncoast Humane Society at 6781 San Casa Drive, Englewood FL 34224.

You may share your memories and condolences to the family by visiting lemonbayfh.com. Her remains will be placed with her husband at the Fort Myers Cemetery.

That several hour trip south from Gulfport has now been reduced to well less than two with the bridges and the Interstate of today.

Born Adele Dufour Allport on December 30, 1919 in Asheville, North Carolina, she was the youngest of four sisters and graduated from Biltmore College.

She installed radios in military aircraft during World War II in Tennessee and while on a trip to California in 1945, she met and and soon after married Bob Caldwell who was working as an aeronautical engineer building the heavy bomber B-24 Liberator for Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego. The Caldwells moved back to Bob’s hometown of Gulfport on July 4, 1951 with their three young children in tow. Bob and Adele loved to fish and truly enjoyed the ambiance of the Boca Grande island lifestyle.

Regulars for years at the old Waterfront Motel, they purchased waterfront lots in Boca Grande in 1973 and moved into their new home that Adele designed and Bob built in 1980.

Adele’s leisure time was filled with fishing, sailing and family trips. She was a platinum, over 50 year member of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. In 1979, when she was 59, she sailed in international competition for the SPYC in France. She was the Yacht Club’s Salty Sisters sailing champion at least six times, winning her last championship when she was well into her seventies and twice as old as the next oldest competitor.

Adele and Bob enjoyed enormously taking summer trips with their children in a station wagon to national parks around America, camping out along the way, and then repeating many of those trips a generation later with their grandchildren. The 2010 edition of the Boca Beacon Tarpon Times in Boca Grande, published just weeks before Adele’s passing, features Tarpon Tales and an article with a large cover photo of Adele in the late 1950s sitting demurely on the stern of the boat overseeing a large tarpon that had  been hooked and then jumped into the boat thrashing around causing havoc. Adele relished reading that article and wanted folks to know that fish was mounted and hangs today in the R.W. Caldwell office in Gulfport.

Adele’s and Bob’s lives were inseparable and were truly intertwined. That included helping many people quietly and without fanfare. Notably, they took a trip together to Haiti  to see firsthand the stories of hardship they had heard and read about. As a result, together, they paid for and shipped more than 500,000 pounds of black beans to the Haitian people through a local charity, For HAITI With Love.

Adele is survived and missed by her three children, April Caldwell Hornsleth and her husband Poul of Gulfport,  Elise ‘Desi’ Caldwell McCarthy and her husband Vaughn of South Pasadena and  R. W. ‘Bill’ Caldwell, III  and his wife Katie of Boca Grande, and her three grandchildren, Poul Hornsleth, III,  Kyle McCarthy and  Jody Caldwell Hornsleth Sepulveda and her husband Rob. A family gathering in Adele’s memory will be held later in July in Boca Grande. The family asks that friends and acquaintances consider making a contribution in Adele’s memory to For HAITI With Love, P.O. Box 1017, Palm Harbor, FL 34682-1017.

She is survived by her four children, E. Francis Bowditch Jr. of Oriental, NC, Nathaniel H. Bowditch of Westport Island Maine, Susan B. Badger of La Conner, Wash., and Elizabeth S. Watt of Tamworth, New Hampshire; and by eight grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.

A proud graduate of Wellesley College, she was a professionally recognized educational leader and counselor, serving as director of development at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass., headmistress of the Day Prospect Hill School in New Haven, Conn., and co-founder and assistant head of the Hammonasset School in Madison, Conn.

Her affiliations and interests in the Boca Grande area were the Charlotte Harbor Estuary Program, Moat Marine Institute, Royal Palm Players, The Island School, and The Planters Garden Club. The Royal Palm Players Anna Awards are named for her.

Her family requests that any donations in her memory be made to the Hopkins School, New Haven, Conn., to be directed to the Anna Bowditch Scholarship Fund.

He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Nevine Hussein Sirry Miller, children, Patricia Ann Miller, Mountainview, Calif.; Lane Miller, Philadelphia, PA; Peter Hicks Miller, Washington D.C.; Hope Miller Heffelfinger, Edina, MN; Nimet Mazloum, Paris, France; Nihal Mazloum, Montreal, CA; Hassan Mazloum, Cairo, Egypt; Grandsons, William G. Temple, Malcolm B. Miller, Patrick Murphy Miller, Rutger R. Heffelfinger, Peter T. Heffelfinger, Christopher S. Mazloum, Karim Mazloum.

He was a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, rising to the rank of captain. He was educated at Iona Prep in New Rochelle, New York, the Taft School, Watertown, Conn., Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

He was executive vice-president of International Elizabeth Arden in London, and retired as president of Elizabeth Arden, BethCo, New York in 1986.

He was an avid fisherman, sailor, NY Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers football fan, and a staunch supporter of the Republican Party.

Bill was a tough minded U.S.Marine with a warm heart and a generous spirit. Quick witted, with a marvelous sense of humor, he cared deeply about his family and friends, especially his wife Nevine to whom he was devoted for 40 years. He passed away peacefully in his own home surrounded by his wife and children.

Born Carol Frances Sise, she grew up in Montreal, Canada, and moved to the United States following her marriage to Frank J. Humphrey Jr.

She lived in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.; New York City; Southampton; and Boca Grande.

As a loving and much loved mother and grandmother, she will be remembered as a gracious example of fairness, kindness and generosity. A great lady, at age 92 she was as sharp as ever and keenly interested in literature, travel, sports and world affairs. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Survivors include one daughter: Andrea O. Lakian of New York, N.Y.; one son: Kenneth Ogle of Los Gatos, Calif.; two brothers: Richard Penn of Austin, Teas; James Penn of Odessa, Texas; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John J. Weldon in 1998.

Funeral services and burial will take place in Indianapolis.

Englewood Community Funeral Home & Cremation Service has been selected to handle arrangements.  You may express condolences or share a memory with the family at englewoodfh.com.

Sally’s wit, beauty and grace, complimented by her bawdy sense of humor, were legendary. An avid reader, theatre lover, passionate outdoors -woman, and enthusiastic world traveler – having visited all seven continents – she most cherished Wyoming, her beloved home for more than 40 years.

Known affectionately as “Sally,” “Sal,” “Big Sal,” “Sal What a Gal,” and “Grandy,” by her family and the many individuals she impacted and inspired, she found joy in everything she did and relished sharing her experiences with others. Sally’s special gifts were her insatiable curiosity in all things, as well as her ability to get the most out of life on her own terms.

Sally is survived by her loving sister Ruth T. Campbell, San Antonio, Texas; her brother Vernon F. Taylor Jr., Denver, Colo.; her brother James C. Taylor (Bea), Bozeman, Mont.; her seven children Virginia T. Bartholomay (Gary), Mettawa, Ill.; William T. Bartholomay, Lake Forest, Ill.; Jamie B. Niemie (Russ), Slingerlands, N.Y.; Betsy B. Benoit (Jim), Chicago; Sally B. Downey (Tim), Lake Forest; Blake H. Swift (Sara), Chicago; Jennifer S. Wilson (Charlie), Lander, Wyo.; and her three step-children Lindsey S. Jones (Hugh), Topeka, Kan.; Nini Seaman (Peter), Carpinteria, Calif.; and Phelps H. Swift Jr. (Pam), Wilson, Wyo. Sally was blessed with 25 grandchildren and one great-grandson. She was pre-deceased by her loving husband, Phelps H. Swift, Boulder, Wyo.

The family thanks Sally’s many friends for their thoughtful prayers and overwhelming support. Services will be held on Saturday, April 24, at 1 p.m. at the Boulder Cemetery, Boulder.  A reception will follow at the Sublette County Library in Pinedale, Wyo. The family invites all who knew and loved Sally to come and join in the celebration of her life.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to: the Sublette County Library, 155 S. Tyler Avenue, PO Box 489, Pinedale WY 82941.