Local obituaries for Roberts Funeral Home of Dunnellon, LLC
Robert Whitten
Sep 26, 2013
Robert David Whitten (“Bob”), 75, of Citrus Springs, FL formerly of Peabody, MA, lost his battle with lung Cancer and passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2013 surrounded by his loving family at home. He was born on July 9, 1938 in Wolfeboro, NH, the son of the late Walter and Beatrice (Watson) Whitten. He was a loving husband, father...
John Frank Goddard
Sep 26, 2013
John Frank Goddard, of Dunnellon, FL was gloriously received into God’s Kingdom on September 26, 2013 while under the care of Hospice of Ocala at the Legacy House. John was born on June 7, 1941 in Eloise, Michigan. He was adopted at the age of 4 by Mark and Arleen Goddard. He attended public school in Michigan and graduated from...
Carole Ann (Dotter) Davis
Sep 25, 2013
Carole Ann Davis, nee Dotter, of Dunnellon FL peacefully passed on to God’s hands on September 25, 2013 while under care of Hospice of Ocala at the Legacy House. Carole was born on June 21, 1940 in Wilkes Barre, PA. Her family moved to the Buffalo, New York area during World War II. Carole attended public school in Buffalo and...
John T. Bunting Jr.
Sep 22, 2013
John T. Bunting Jr., 62, of Dunnellon, died Sunday (9/22) at Woodland Terrace. He was born November 2, 1950 in New Britain, Connecticut to the late John T. Sr. and Hanna Burke Bunting. Mr. Bunting came from a poor family where he was the middle of three child. John was married three times and was always very close to his...
Kenneth L Roberts
Sep 20, 2013
Kenneth L. Roberts, 70, of Dunnellon (formally Miami, FL) Peacefully passed away September 20, 2013 with his loving wife Barbara, sister-in-law Louise Scafati, and best friend Candy Craig by his side. Ken was born November 20, 1942 to the late Dorothy (Flanagan) and Clyde K. Roberts and proudly served in the U.S. Navy from 1960-1966. Mr. Roberts was a Union...
Gloria (Claessen) Keicher
Sep 20, 2013
Gloria K. Keicher, 86, of Dunnellon, died Friday (9/20) at Legacy House in Ocala. She was born in Maspeth, New York to the late Peter Paul and Hilda (Abele) Claessen and moved here from Elmont, New York in 1985. Mrs Keicher attended St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. She and her late husband Charles founded the Keichers, Disc Jockeys in...
Richard Robert Timmerman
Sep 15, 2013
Richard Robert Timmerman, 71, of Dunnellon, Florida, died Sunday (9/15) at Legacy Hospice House, Ocala. Born September 14, 1942 in Dunkirk, New York to the late Richard and Beatrice Eudora Smith Timmerman. Mr. Timmerman served in the United States Army from 1960 until he retired in 1980. After retiring he became an LPN through Jamestown Community College. He was then...
George Howard Collins Jr.
Sep 12, 2013
Obituary for GEORGE H. COLLINS George Howard Collins Jr., 87, of Dunnellon, died Thursday (9/12) at the Citrus Hospice House in Lecanto. He was born October 20, 1925 in Fair Oaks, New York, to the late George H. Sr. and Harriet Van Sickle Collins. Mr. Collins retired from Orange and Rockland Utilities in New York and served honorably in the...
Anthony Degennaro
Sep 11, 2013
We all have a beginning and an end it is what we do with that time in between and the people we touch during that finite interval that makes one memorable. Some of us work our hands to the bone, some of us learn all we can, some spend all their time involved with their family, some help the less...
Kenneth Douglas Sveda
Sep 8, 2013
Kenneth D. Sveda, of Florida, peacefully passed away at home on Sunday, September 8, 2013, surrounded by his wife and three daughters. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey on February 2, 1943 and raised in Wallington, New Jersey by late parents George and Maria Sveda. He served in the United States Navy from 1961 to 1964. Mr. Sveda was...
Mary Rosa (Newton) Penski
Sep 4, 2013
Mary Rosa Penski, 79, of Ocala, died peacefully on Wednesday (9/4) at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Waltamstow, England to the late William and Hilda (Wilson) Newton. Mrs. Penski worked for the British Secret Service where she met her husband Walter, who was serving in the United States Air Force. They were married in...
Thomas M. Anderson
Sep 3, 2013
Thomas M. Anderson, 85, of Ocala, died Tuesday at the Legacy Hospice House in Ocala. Mr. Anderson was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania to the late Charles and Edna (Roberts) Anderson. He was a Supervisor for National Steel in Portage, Indiana; a United States Army Veteran; and attended Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Valparaiso, Indiana and Queen of Peace in...
George Taylor Williams
Aug 26, 2013
Dunnellon George Taylor Williams, 96, of Dunnellon, died Monday (8/26) in Ocala. Mr. Williams was born in Johnstown, New York to the late Raymond and Nina Taylor Williams. He moved to Dunnellon in 1992. He was a salesman for several publishing companies including Structures Publishing, a member of the First United Methodist Church in Dunnellon, and a Mason. Surviving family...
Wilma (Plessinger) Burgess
Aug 24, 2013
Wilma Burgess, 89, of Troy, Missouri, died August 24, 2013 at Troy Manor in Bedford, Missouri. Mrs. Burgess was born October 25, 1919 in Liberty, Indiana to the late Walter and Maggie (Thomas) Plessinger. She was a homemaker and formerly a member of First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, Florida. Mrs. Burgess was preceded in death by her late husband...
Benjamin E. Whitney
Aug 22, 2013
Benjamin E. Whitney, 93 died August 22, 2013 at home in Dunnellon, FL. Mr. Whitney was born to Alvin E. and Hazel B. Nelson Whitney on March 9, 1920 in Millbury, MA and moved to Dunnellon in 1951 from Massachusetts. He served his country proudly in the US Navy during WWII and spent 25 years working for Eli Whit Company,...
Leonard H. Fowler, Jr.
Aug 22, 2013
Leonard H. Fowler, Jr. went to be with his Lord and Savior August 22, 2013. Born in Newport News, Virginia on October 7, 1931, Mr. Fowler served his country in the United States Air Force for 22 years, and then drove for Curtis Oil Company of Lee Hall, Virginia and then the government retail system. He then retired to Deland,...
Harold Francis Collins
Aug 20, 2013
Harold Francis Collins Jr., 78, of Dunnellon, passed away Tuesday (8/20) at his home. He was born in Long Island, New York to the late Harold F. Sr. and Veronica Collins. He graduated from Miami Tech in 1955 and was awarded Florida's Apprentice Carpenter of the Year. He transitioned to television and the motion picture industry as a prop maker...
Barbara Jean Helmey
Aug 19, 2013
Barbara Jean Helmey, 82, died on August 19, 2013 in Ocala, FL. She was born December 5, 1930 in Inglis, FL to the late Kelly Runnels and Thelma Busby Runnels. Barbara was the beloved wife of fifty seven years to the late William Helmey who passed away six years ago. Besides her husband Barbara is preceded in death by her...
