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Plant City couple named grand marshals of 2014 St. Pete Pride
Nancy and John Desmond’s Walden Lake home is full of stacked boxes stuffed with colorful beads, heart-shaped light up antenna headbands and loving banners of support. It’s all for the St. Pete Pride Parade, which takes place Saturday, June 28. Nancy digs into a box and held up two banners: I love my two moms. […]
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We’ve all been there — the fast food drive-thru at lunch. Or chowing down on that frozen dinner riddled with high amounts of sodium. Life gets busy, and when you’re on the go, sometimes, you don’t have time to make a healthier meal for yourself or your family. That’s where Steel and Grace comes in. […]
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Ashley Lyon, the Valrico teenager found stabbed after authorities chased and caught the sex offender she was traveling with, is now coping with a blood clot and remains hospitalized in Louisiana. online pharmacy zithromax no prescription pharmacy “I pray that this is it and she can recover now,” her mother, Michelle Lyon, wrote in an […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Laurie Ronald Garvin
Laurie Ronald Garvin, 54, of Mulberry, died June 16, 2014, at South Florida Baptist Hospital, in Plant City. Born Oct. 16, 1959, in Tampa, he was the son of the late Laurie Garvin and Frances Pennel Garvin. His family will be having private services. Online condolences may be made to the family at haughtfuneralhome.com. online […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Johnny Glover Simonds
Johnny Glover Simonds, 60, of Dover, died June 23, 2014. Mr. Simonds was a lifelong heavy equipment mechanic owning his own business, Simonds Equipment Repair. online pharmacy purchase augmentin no prescription with best prices today in the USA He was a devoted husband of 34 years to wife, Karen Simonds; loving father to his children, […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Carol Griffith
Carol Griffith, 61, died June 18, 2014, in St. Petersburg. She was born Jan. 29, 1953, in Troy, N.Y., to the late Lloyd and Madeline Dean and lived most of her adult life in Plant City. online pharmacy lariam buy with best prices today in the USA Mrs. Griffith, beloved mother, is survived by her […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Rebecca M. Lowe
Rebecca M. Lowe, 65, died June 20, 2014, at home. She was born Feb. 2, 1949, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Sol and Sarah (Gartenlaub) Liebman. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Wayne A. Lowe; a son, Wayne Lowe Jr. (Rebecca); three daughters, Lisa Lowe, Laura Brody (David) and Jeanine McClellan (Charles); 12 […]
Continue ReadingObituary: Elworth Lee O’Steen
Elworth Lee O’Steen, 86, of Brandon, died June 15, 2014, at Dalaney Creek Lodge, in Brandon. Born July 23, 1927, in Plant City, he was the son of the late Christopher and Lorena Johnson O’Steen. He was the husband of the late Yvonne Trout O’Steen. Mr. O’Steen was a veteran of the U.S. Army and […]
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