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Harry Emmett Lennon, age 94, of Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida, passed away on Thursday, May 26, 2022. There are no services scheduled.

Keith Rufus Carter, age 86, of Port St. Lucie, Florida passed away onWednesday, May 25, 2022.

Irene Kos, age 87, of Pompano Beach, Florida, passed away on Monday, May 23, 2022. There are no services scheduled.

Loraine Urbanek, 98 years old, passed away on May 21, 2022. She was born in Plain, WI to Mary and Walter Liegel and was a member of St Luke’s Catholic Church in Plain. She was a sister to 5 brothers and 8 sisters. As a young woman, Loraine worked on the family farm, in her late teens worked at Badger Ordnance in Baraboo, WI. She moved to Milwaukee in early twenties to work as a bookkeeper at Blatz Brewing Company. She married Steve Urbanek in 1946 and started a family in Milwaukee. ...

Aura R. Arango, age 87, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2022. There are no services scheduled.

June Lennon, age 95, of Boca Raton, FL passed away on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. She was born to James and Eleanor Baier on April 29, 1927 and was raised in Oshkosh WI. On September 21, 1948 she married Thomas Lennon and together they had four children. She loved her home town and often returned to spend time with family and friends. In1960 she and Thomas moved to Ft. Lauderdale FL but a piece of her always remained in her beloved home town. June...

Born in Muncie, Indiana to the late Boyd and Helen Best, Ann went on to move to Michigan where she worked at Ford Motor company for 30 years until retirement. Working for Ford Ann met her husband Bob after work on May 19, 1979 at the Topper Lounge in Dearborn. Not long after they were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Dearborn. When they both were able to retire, they moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and began their adventures traveling the world. She and Bob traveled to 53...

Elba Carbajal known as a matriarch of a large family peacefully passed away, age 86, on May 14th, 2022. She was born in Port of Callao, Lima, Peru on September 20th, 1935. She grew up with four siblings and became a young housewife and mother dedicated to providing as much as she could to her seven children. Despite many obstacles, she persevered as an independent woman and worked multiple jobs, at times as a community nurse, journalist, seamstress and even a saleswoman. Elba was devoted...

EUGENE FRANCIS “HUEY” VANEK Eugene “Huey” Vanek, 97, succumbed to COVID on May 14, 2022. Born in Newark, New Jersey, to Frank and Dorothy Vanek, Huey spent his childhood in Hillside, New Jersey. Huey served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II as an Army radar technician in the Leyte Gulf. His career was spent in the leather and dry-cleaning business in both New Jersey and Florida. Since the 1950s, Huey has lived in Ft. Lauderdale. Much of Huey’s spare time was spent...

Marie R. Melillo, age 96, of Oakland Park, Florida passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2022. There are no services scheduled.