Ronnie Smith, a Miami horn player who spent five booty-shaking years with K.C. and the Sunshine Band, then wrote Jimmie “Bo’’ Horne’s 1978 disco smash, Spank, has died at age 59.

An activist since childhood, Due played a key role in transforming a state divided by racial segregation

Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets.

Antoni Tapies' works were sprawling, abstract oeuvres that sometimes featured discarded everyday materials and graffiti-like scrawls. He liked the letter X to be in them, and the number 4, for the four elements of nature.

Ronnie Smith, a Miami horn player who spent five booty-shaking years with K.C. and the Sunshine Band, then wrote Jimmie “Bo’’ Horne’s 1978 disco smash, Spank, has died at age 59.

An activist since childhood, Due played a key role in transforming a state divided by racial segregation

Dr. Louis Lemberg, a clinical pioneer in the development of implantable “demand” heart pacemakers and in the use of beta blockers for heart-attack patients—also the University of Miami medical school’s longest-serving faculty member— has died at 95.

Fred Mooke, an award-winning Miami television pioneer who produced Ralph Renick’s groundbreaking newscast for 22 years, and mentored young reporters and students who achieved major-market careers in both English and Spanish, died of pneumonia Jan. 27.

Sol Schreiber, a successful Miami stationer in the days before office-supply chain stores, learned how to make a living as a boy on New York City’s Lower East Side.

Alicia Santos Baro, an influential and much-lauded advocate for South Florida’s Puerto Rican community, died of natural causes Jan. 2.

Florence Beatrice Stevens Sorrell Smith died Jan. 10, missing her “27th birthday” by just weeks.

From the time he joined the U.S. Army’s Junior ROTC at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School in the 1990s, Cheldon Levay Glover knew he might end up in harm’s way.

Samuel Kaye, the last owner of Wolfie’s Restaurant at 1 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, died Sunday at 94, a late-in-life convert to healthy eating who “was very active at the gym working off the corned beef,’’ said Patricia Kaye, one of his two daughters.

In 1985, Marvin Danto shifted the center of South Florida’s home-furnishings universe from Miami’s Design District to a 44-acre campus in Dania Beach that he called DCOTA: Design Center of the Americas.

Singer/actress Kaye Stevens, a longtime resident and commercial champion of Margate, died Wednesday at The Villages Hospital, north of Orlando. She was 79.

Brother Charles Roggemann left Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory six years ago. But when a man with gentle wit and a quirky personality teaches three decades’ worth of students, his memory lasts.