Bambilyn Torra was still breathing when firefighters pulled her from a burning single-wide in Pembroke Park on July 1. ''Floor-to-ceiling clutter'' hampered the rescue, they said, and Torra died soon after at Hollywood's Memorial Regional Hospital. Two of her three dogs also died.
Mark Bisbing, a Miami attorney who specialized in international tax law but spent much of his time working pro bono for Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, died unexpectedly at his home on July 1.
Bishop Isaiah Simmeon Williams Jr., founder and senior pastor of Jesus People Ministries Church International, was the spiritual leader of an 8,000-member multi-ethnic, interdenominational Miami Gardens congregation, a popular radio/television preacher, a police chaplain and an advocate for the disadvantaged.
Charles Elisha ''Andy'' Taylor III, a longtime journalist who specialized in space-shots and snakes, inmates and athletes -- then transitioned to a life of good works in the Episcopalian Church, died Saturday.
Anthony William Palmore Sr., who served in the military and had a lifelong passion for fishing, died of a heart attack while in Virginia.
Clyde W. Judson Jr. died after he collapsed at a groundbreaking ceremony for a community center in North Miami.
Dr. Lynn Paul Carmichael, who established the country's first family-medicine residency program at the University of Miami's medical school in the 1960s and was widely considered ''the father of family medicine,'' died Friday in Arizona.
Within moments after his former students learned that MAST Academy teacher John Ruppel died unexpectedly on Tuesday, they launched a Facebook page called ``Mr. Ruppel Touched My Life.''
Chorbishop Joseph Abi-Nader, a significant figure in the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States, died June 6 at 87. He was living in Lighthouse Point, where he assisted at Saint Paul the Apostle, a Roman Catholic church.
Anthony Dale Gagliano, a promising Miami Beach writer whose 2007 first novel, Straits of Fortune, drew critical praise, died Thursday, six weeks after a brain aneurysm left him in a coma.
Martha Enriqueta Mahr, a beloved ballet teacher who trained generations of dancers and many Hispanic dance stars at her Coral Gables studio, died Monday, just shy of her 82nd birthday on June 26.
Bernard Barker, one of the men whose break-in at the Watergate complex led to the resignation two years later of President Richard Nixon, has died at 92.
Trudy Hirsch Fennell married into the South Florida orchid industry's founding family and became the public face of its popular tourist attraction, Orchid Jungle.
As a boy, he spun tales of intrigue for his friends. As a Cuban defector, he lived them for the CIA.
Beverly Randolph Carter, a Southern gentleman, competitive sailor, civic leader and trailblazing newspaperman whose innovations endure in today's Miami Herald, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich., of melanoma. He was 77.
Didier Daniel Nicholas Louis Berc¸ot, a fifth-generation baker and oenophile who offered crusty breads at his North Miami boulangerie -- and a native's knowledge of French wines to tasting buddies -- died on April 30.
As a kid, Ben Goeser pedaled his bike from the family's 1920s-era Coconut Grove home to the Vizcaya Museum, where he played in the elaborate gardens.
Albert Jay Zemlock, a Brooklyn-born, third-generation lawyer who practiced for nearly 50 years in South Florida and ran five times for judge, died Thursday. He was 81.
Five years ago, when Asenath Jay Rosen was 90 and very much alive, the Social Security Administration inexplicably declared her dead, creating four months of havoc for the longtime Hollywood hospital volunteer.
As a kid, Miami native Stewart Alan Greenstein fell in love with the barbecued pork ribs at a little joint called Shorty's on U.S. 1 in Kendall.
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