1. The Tampa Tribune Monday, February 29, 1988 Owners, neighbors, say old building is past its prime From Page 1 a lot of tenants there over the years," Todd remembers. But he says he's not at all saddened by the demolition. "I'll be glad to see it torn down. I hate to see my name on something that looks that bad.
I'm not sentimental about property." Lanier Upshaw isn't sorry to see the building fall, either, even though he spent a good many years behind a desk inside the brick walls of the Todd-McKay. "I'm not really sorry to see it go," he says. "It's not exactly an eyesore, but I guess you could say it's obsolete." Upshaw, 78, a retired insurance executive and owner of Lanier Upshaw rented an office next to McKay Furniture in 1946, after coming home from U.S. Navy duty. He hired a bookkeeper and a Navy buddy to start.
Today, he says, La- nier Upshaw agency, from which he retired 13 years ago, employs about 36 people in its U.S. 98 South location. "We stayed there eight or 10 years," remembers Upshaw, who recently retired as a member of First Federal Florida's board of directors. "It was right in the middle of downtown then." Bud Novak, owner of the Clippership Barber Shop that has been located in the western half of the Todd-McKay for 58 years, says he's looking for a new business site downtown even though he won't be affected by the demolition. "I'd like to have a lease," says Novak, 63.
Novak, who has owned the oldtime barber shop for nearly six years, says the Downtown Development Authority can't provide him a lease because the property is earmarked for the retail mall. "They keep talking about a mall or office space," he says. Though talk of a mall doesn't give him much security, Novak really doesn't want to move from his digs at the corner of Tennessee Avenue and Lemon Street. "This is the finest corner in town," he says. "It's especially good for watchin' the girls." Harvard graduate addresses black youths drafting teacher at Traviss Vo-Tech in Lakeland.
"He's the one who pretty much taught me how to draw," says Green, who graduated from Hampton (Va.) University with a bachelor's degree in architecture, then went on to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1976 with a master's of architecture in urban design. After his high school graduation, Green joined the U.S. Army for a two-year stint, then enrolled at Polk Community College. He graduated in 1979 with an associate's degree. And it was Cunningham, Green recalls, who encouraged him to reach higher.
Cunningham tells the same story. "I encouraged him to go back to school. I walked into Maas Brothers one evening, doing some la shopping, and ran into him. I said I was going up to Hampton University to homecoming and asked if he wanted to go." Green accepted the invitation and decided to stay, Cunningham says. "I knew I wanted to go to college.
I had been accepted at several schools," Green says. "But when he invited me up there, that's really all it took. He said, 'I want you to consider this It seemed like a very good environment. The campus is somewhat isolated, so I could really concentrate on my studies. After Hampton, Green continued his graduate work for two years at Harvard, then accepted a staff architect position at the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Since May 1987, he's worked for a minorityowned architectural firm in Boston. "I'm somewhat disillusioned when I come home," Green admits. "There's 1 not as much concern about upward mobility among younger kids nowadays. You look around and see teen pregnancy, the everpresent drug They existed when I was growing up, but they weren't so prevalent. "It's disheartening to see a whole generation that doesn't appear much more prepared than we were," he adds.
"But I take a positive outlook on the future. I see little changes." Man killed by shotgun blast on sidewalk A 45-year-old woman, who lives nearby, told The Tampa Tribune she heard the gun blasts Sunday afternoon. The woman, who asked not to be identified, said after the shooting a white car sped in reverse to the corner of North Lincoln Avenue and West Second Street. The car turned around and raced west on Second Street, the witness said. From Page 1 From Page 1 Obituaries EARNEST ALLEN, 84, of Lake Wales died Saturday.
He moved to this area in 1951 from his native Walton County and was a retired factory worker with the Ben Hill Griffin company. He is survived by his wife, Annie four sons, Lance, Billy and John, all of Lake Wales and Vance of Parson, a daughter, Letha L. Hudgins of Winter Haven; two brothers, Albert and Charles, both of De Funiak Springs; four sisters, Bertha Jones of Lake Wales, Louise Ryals of Crestview, Mae H. Carnley of De Funiak Springs and Dorothy Atcheson of Pensacola; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Marion Nelson Funeral Home, Lake Wales.
ESTHER A. BONEY, 72, of Lake Wales died Friday. She was born in Paint Rock, and moved to this area 23 years ago. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. She is survived by her husband, Isben two daughters, Faye Coatney of Lake Wales and Martha P.
Richards of Eagle Lake; three brothers, Hugh Phillips of Paint Rock, Ervin Phillips of Huntsville, and William D. Phillips of Woodville, three sisters, Opal McCowan of Gurley, Katherine Ballard of Columbus, and Elizabeth Timberlake of Silvis, nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Marion Nelson Funeral Home, Lake Wales. VITTORIA BOOKER, 78, of Lakeland died Friday. She moved to Lakeland 42 years ago from her native Italy.
She was the co-owner of the Cadet Restaurant in Lakeland and a Roman Catholic. She is survived by her husband, R.C.; three brothers, Alberta Caserta of Bradenton and Ettope and Renato Caserta, both of Italy; and a sister, Emma Caserta of Lakeland. Gentry-Morrison Funeral Home, downtown Lakeland. THERESA M. CACCIATORE, 83, of Auburnda.e died Saturday.
She moved to Auburndale in 1982 from her native New Rochelle, N.Y. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Winter Haven. She is survived by a son, John of New Rochelle; a daughter, Aurelia Nieto of Auburndale; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Crisp-Coon Funeral Home, Winter Haven.
B. of Mount Lebanon, two L. Eckhardt of Stuart; her parents, SAMUEL RUXTON DONNELLON, 103, of Lake Wales died Friday. He was a native of New York City and moved to this area 35 years ago from White Plains, N.Y. He was a retired engineer with Linde Air Products and served during World War II on the Manhattan Project in Oakridge, Tenn.
He was a member of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church of Lake Wales. He is survived by two sons, Samuel R. Jr. of Wayne, N.J., and John B. of Mount Lebanon, two One killed, four injured in crash near Lake Wales A Tribune Staff Report LAKELAND One man was killed and four people were injured in a two-vehicle accident on a state highway near Lake Wales Saturday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
An unidentified man was killed about 9 p.m., when the 1980 Buick he was riding in made a left turn into the path of a 1974 Ford, a Highway Patrol report states. The Ford was traveling east on State Highway 60 about 1.3 miles west of Lake Wales and the Buick was traveling west, the report states. The driver of the Buick, Linda C. Evans, 37, of 1220 S. Woodlawn Bartow, was seriously injured.
A passenger, Jose M. Jaimes, 20, of 1405 Gibson Arcadia, was critically injured and another passenger, Betty Howell, 37, of 1660 McLeod Bartow, was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries, the report states. Howell said the man killed in the crash was a migrant worker who lived near Lake Wales. The driver of the Ford, Eduardo Trumillo Rodriquez, 20, whose address is a Lake Wales post office box, received minor injuries in the wreck. History comes to video From Page 1 in Florida during the Reconstruction era meant that many superintendent jobs were given to illiterates, DuCharme said, but that was never a problem in Polk County.
DuCharme writes all the scripts based on her research, she said, and often employs quotations from written materials and transcribed speeches. She considered writing a book, DuCharme added, but she believed videos would attract more student interest. The Polk County Opportunity Council has donated its television equipment and other technical assistance, she said, and dozens of people from the schools and the community have volunteered their services as actors. Mike Brown, a television technician at the school's media center, is also helping. Videos in the planning stage in-, clude one on education in the county before schools were established, such as Spanish missionaries ing the native people and itinerant teachers brought by the first settlers; a recreation of a typical day's lessons in the early one-room school houses; and a collection of oral histories on the families of the county's first settlers.
DuCharme added she is still looking for descendents from some of those first families to help with collecting and presenting those oral histories. Among the 17 families she is still researching are: Hollingsworth, Seward, Pearce, Mizelle, Varn, Wade, Hendry, Rye and Parker. Descendents of those families can contact DuCharme at her Bartow home. The woman said a shirtless black male, wearing yellow shorts and carrying a shotgun, ran by moments later. The witness said the man ran east on Second Street for a few hundred yards then north between two houses.
Police had identified the suspect and were still searching for him, Barlow said late Sunday. Tony Allen, who works in a garage directly across from the shooting, said the victim was going to pay daughters, Frances Updike and Mary Blohm, both of Lake Wales; 16 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren. Marion Nelson Funeral Home, Lake Wales. L.A. HENDERSON, 52, of Winter Haven died Saturday.
He was a native of South Carolina and moved to Winter Haven in 1983 from Kentucky. He was employed as a field engineer by MCI Telecommunications of Polk County and was a retired Army veteran of Vietnam. He was a Methodist. He is survived by his wife, Carole two sons, Bill of Winter Haven and Scott of Newton, N.C.; a daughter, Terri of Orlando; a brother, William of Richmond, three sisters, Pat Britt, Faye Sigmon and Mary Jo Greer, all of Newton; and three grandchildren. Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven.
HELEN D. HINKLE, 67, of Davenport died Sunday. She moved to Davenport 10 years ago from her native Springfield, Ohio. She was a retired gear balancer for a manufacturing company. She is survived by her husband, Elber; a daughter, Peggy Simpson of Springfield; her stepmother, Zida Bales, and three sisters, Norma Abraham, Dorothy Zembrook and Kate Hines, all of Springfield; one granddaughter; and one greatgranddaughter.
Lane-Holt Funeral Home, Haines City. CYNTHIA E. HODGES, 63, of Eagle Lake died Sunday. She came to the Winter Haven area in 1942 from her native Tarrytown, Ga. She was a homemaker and a member of Southside Baptist Church of Winter Haven.
She is survived by her husband, Oran; two sons, Martin A. and Larry her mother, Annie B. Boyd; two brothers, Russell J. and John E. Boyd; a sister, Ruth Coffman, and one granddaughter, all of Winter Haven.
Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven. LEONARD GILBERT JAMES, 82, of Lake Wales died Saturday. He was native of a Penn, and moved to this area five years ago from Marcellus, Mich. He was a retired accountant with Grand Trunk Railroad. He is survived by his wife, Ilo a brother, Francis Sr.
of Pensacola; and a sister, Gladys Rhoads of Kalamazoo, Mich. Marion Nelson Funeral Home, Lake Wales. DOTTIE MARIE JOHNSON, 44, of Lakeland died Friday. She was born in Stamford, Texas, and moved to this area four years ago from Hurricane, W. Va.
She was a hairdresser and attended Highland City Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, William two sons, William III of Austin, Texas, and James A. Callison of Lakeland; a daughter, Sandra L. Eckhardt of Stuart; her parents, him Sunday for work being done on the victim's white Cadillac Coupe de Ville in the garage. Allen said that when the shooting occured he was working on the engine of a car parked in the street a few yards across from where the body lay.
Allen said he heard the shots, but did not see anything. "I looked up and that's what I saw," Allen said pointing at the body on the sidewalk. Mr. and Mrs. M.E.
Williams and brother and sister, John S. Essary and Teresa, all of Lakeland; and four grandchildren. Thornton-Holcom Memorial Home, Lakeland. ALBERT JUDSON JONES, 70, of Lakeland died Wednesday. He moved to this area 34 years ago from his native Oil City, Pa.
He was a retired supervisor with the C.F. Inc. phosphate mining company in Fort Green Springs and a member of Lakeland Optimist Club and St. David's Episcopal Church of Lakeland. He is survived by a son, Bruce J.
of Lookout Mountain, a daughter, Janice Naecker of New Castle, a brother, Albin of Oil City; and three grandchildren. Thornton-Holcom Memorial Home, Lakeland. MICHAEL L. MARYNEWICH, 70, of Windsor, Ontario, died Friday in a Lakeland hospital. He was born in Manitoba, Canada, and had been a winter resident of Lakeland for the past eight years.
He was a a retired inspector for the Ford Motor Co. and a member of the Calvary United Church and Western Prairie Provinces Club, both in Windsor, and a Woodbrook Estates Shuffleboard Group, and John L. Snook Retired Senior Volunteers Program in Lakeland. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; a son, Dennis of Cottom, Ontario; three daughters, Arlene Dobson of Windsor, Doreen George of London, Ontario, and Sharron Kieswetter of Waterloo, Ontario; three brothers, Joe of Beausejour, Canada, and and Donald Ademek and Casey, both of New Zealand; two sisters, Judy Zaiser and Louise Fauteaux, both of St. Catherines, Canada; and nine grandchildren.
Thornton-Holcom Memorial Home, Lakeland. RAY E. MELEEN, 77, of Winter Haven died Saturday. He was born in Stamford, and moved to this area in 1986 from Miami. He was a retired salesman and a Protestant.
He is survived by a daughter, Lynn Vanhoozer of Winter Haven; a son, John M. of Balsam, two sisters, Hazel Boortz of Spring Valley, and Dorothy Anderson of Eau Claire, and three grandchildren. Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven. THOMAS O. MINOR, 92, of Winter Haven died Friday.
He was born in Moulton, Iowa, and moved to Winter Haven in 1965 from Yale, Iowa. He was a retired farmer and a member of Yale United Methodist Church and a Mason. He is survived by two sons, Charles of Woodburn, and Dean of Lompoc, a daughter, Wilma Harden of Carlisle, Iowa; two sisters, Jane Dalrymple of Winter Haven and Velma Campbell of Fort Worth, Texas; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven. "That's the way it is around here.
When something happens, nobody has seen a thing," said a man in the crowd, who would not give his name. Barlow said three or four witnesses cooperated with police Sunday, but that that there were several other witnesses to the crime who did not come forward. Police had not determined a motive for the shooting late Sunday afternoon, Barlow said. BOBBY NEAL MITCHEM, 55, of Lakeland died Sunday. He was born in Monroe, and moved to Lakeland 15 years ago from Winter Haven.
He was a retired concrete finisher and a member of the K- Ville Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Hilda; a son, Bobby D. of Lakeland; two daughters, Wahneta Moran of Auburndale and Deborah Mullins of Davenport; two stepsons, Jimmy and Jackie Clark, both of Lakeland; three stepdaughters, Brenda McCard of Auburndale, Diane Giey of Winter Haven and Kathy Bell of Lakeland; his mother, Ethel Anglin of Lakeland; a brother, Charles of Auburndale; 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Kersey Funeral Home, Auburn- N. CANTY PAYNE, 89, of Frostproof died Friday.
He moved to Frostproof 68 years ago from his native Ashburn, Ga. He was the owner of Payne's Red and White Grocery Store and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Frostproof and Masonic Lodge 229. He is survived by a son, Norman C. "Butch" Jr. of Frostproof; a daughter, Grace Milton of Port Richey; a sister, Julia Holbrook of Plant City, a brother, Paul of Sycamore, seven grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Marion Nelson Funeral Home, Frostproof. UERL SANFORD, 71, of Winter Haven died Feb. 21. He moved to Winter Haven 20 years ago from his native Meigs, Ga. He worked as a fork lift operator for Adams Packing Co.
in Auburndale and was an Army veteran of World War II and a Baptist. He is survived by five sons, Willie J. Thomas, Willie Larry, Marvin and Jackie; five daughters, Lera Paul, Betty Bell, Lavone Andrews and Johnnie and Geraldine Sanford; four sisters, Laurie Clarke, Ella M. Brashaw, Ollie Mae Johnson and Verna Barnes; 15 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. John A.
Boyd Funeral Home, Winter Haven. OLIVER FLOYD SHIRAH, 85, of Haines City died Sunday. He was a native of Temple, and moved to Haines City in 1979 from Fresno, Calif. He was a member of Haines City Church of Christ. He is survived by his wife, Annie a daughter, Ovie; two sons, Troy E.
of Seattle and Oliver Jr. of Colorado; and two sisters, Ola Williams of Fresno and Canara Yuda of Oakland, Calif. Lane-Holt Funeral Home, Haines City. ANNA MAE SMITH, 90, of Lakeland died Saturday. She was a native of Lisbon, Ohio, and moved to this area four years ago from Orlando.
She was a Methodist. She is survived by a son, Donald C. of Orlando; a daughter, Evelyn J. Perry of Winter Haven; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Heath Funeral Chapel, Lakeland.
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