MARION JEANETTE FROST EBY, 88

Marion Jeanette Frost Eby | Daughter of founding Dania Beach family

What's now the city of Dania Beach was a giant tomato field when Marion Jeanette Frost Eby grew up there in the 1920s and '30s.

The Frost family lived in a Dade County pine house at 400 South Federal Hwy. with a second story that offered her father, Dania pioneer Martin Christian Frost, a panoramic view of his 300-acre holdings.

CHARLES NORMAN MILLS, 88

Charles Norman Mills | South Florida artist painted for nearly 60 years

Painter Charles Norman Mills, whose sense of black history and culture graces canvases, boards and neighborhood walls, died Tuesday morning in hospice care in Pembroke Pines. He was 88.

DR. ANTHONY VENTO, 82

Dr. Anthony Vento | Longtime family practitioner

Dr. Anthony Joseph Vento, a father of five when he started medical school and seven when he finished, transitioned from pharmacist to physician and became a popular Fort Lauderdale family practitioner.

CHARLES E. LOMAX, 85

Charles E. Lomax | First black partner at major Chicago law firm

Charles E. Lomax, the first black partner at the huge Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where Barack and Michelle Obama would later meet, died Sunday in Boca Raton. He was 85.

RAY LYNCH, 65

Ray Lynch | Editor became Internet pioneer

Gruff and wry, longtime Sun Sentinel reporter and editor Ray Lynch straddled the eras of old-school, bare-knuckled journalism and flashy, rapid-fire Internet news.

THOMAS DANIEL McCARTHY, 62

Thomas Daniel McCarthy | Chief helped unite Fort Lauderdale police in '90s

Thomas Daniel McCarthy, Fort Lauderdale police chief for 18 months in the 1990s, died Monday following a heart attack. He had been interim chief in Hope Mills, N.C., since June 1.