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Inez Marie Alvarez
Jul. 07, 2024
Inez Marie Alvarez, 83, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on July 7, 2024. Born on April 8, 1941, in Tampa, she was the daughter of Johnnie and Nardina Saladino Lopez. Inez was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Joseph Chris, and her parents. Inez, third generation born and...
Ricardo C DeLeon
Jul. 05, 2024
Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you...
Helen M Thompson
Jul. 03, 2024
Helen May Thompson (née Dunlap), aged 94, passed away on July 3, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. Born on June 11, 1930, in Somersworth, New Hampshire, Helen was a graduate of Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine. Helen was preceded in death by her husband, LCDR Russell J. Thompson, USN, Ret., and her...
Emelina Rodriguez
Jul. 02, 2024
Me gustaría que mi recuerdo fuera feliz. Me gustaría dejar un resplandor de sonrisas cuando la vida haya terminado. Me gustaría dejar un eco susurrando suavemente por los caminos, De tiempos felices, de risas y de días brillantes y soleados. Quisiera que las lágrimas de los que lloran, se sequen...
Sidney Michael Garcia
Jun. 30, 2024
Sidney Michael Garcia, 62, of Tampa Florida passed away in the 9pm hour of June 30th 2024 at Empath Hospice at St. Josephs Hospital due to complications brought on by the treatment of his cancer. Sidney was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky on March 22, 1962 to Juan Joseph Angle Garcia and Oswalda...
Irene Acebo
Jun. 29, 2024
Irene Acebo, of Tampa died peacefully on June 29th, 2024. She was born to John Anthony and Amelia Celaya in Tampa, Florida. She was a life-long resident of the city of Tampa. Irene is survived by her two sons, David and Gabriel Acebo ll. As well as her only grandchild, Hollianne Guy. She is...
Marisol Espinar
Jun. 28, 2024
Marisol Espinar was born Marisol Piñero Rodriguez in the provincial capital of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. The daughter of a divorced mother with limited means, she was raised by her father Erasmo Piñero and his stepmother Liduvina Piñero with all the love and care they could muster. She was joined...
Fidelia "Fifi" Guerrero
Jun. 22, 2024
Fidelia Gonzalez Guerrero, lovingly referred to as “FiFi,” was born to parents Geraldo and Josephine Gonzalez on March 15, 1943 in Ybor City, Florida. After a long and hard-fought battle with dementia, Fidelia passed away at the age of 81 on June 22, 2024. She is survived by her husband, Agustin...
Frank Edward Rodriguez III
Jun. 21, 2024
The angels’ voice guides our choice. From the end lies the beginning, in His rejoice. The eye can only see what the mind knows. In the darkness of the world, the heart is what glows. Smile as bright as the rising sun; when facing the end, where is there left to run? Cold is the winter wind; the...
Henry Menendez
Jun. 17, 2024
Menendez, Henry, 86, of Tampa, FL, died June 17, 2024. He was born Dec. 7, 1937 to Ruby Whittemore and Andres Menendez. He graduated from Jefferson H.S. in 1955 and afterward honorably served in the USAF from 1956-1960. He enjoyed living in Hawaii during his time there. He later worked for the...
Geneva Faust
Jun. 17, 2024
Geneva Faust went home to heaven on June 17, 2024. She was born February 9, 1936, in Tampa, Florida. Above all, Geneva's life was defined by sharing joy in Christ. Geneva grew up in Tampa with her parents Guy and Edith Whitten, her brother Buddy and her sister Reba. Geneva met Charlie Faust at a...
Karen Kay Gordon
Jun. 14, 2024
I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun; Of happy...