Clara Rush Oesterle's legacy as a Miami-Dade County commissioner runs on 30 miles of electrified track: the Metrorail/Metromover system.
As commissioner from 1974 to 1988 and close ally of the late county Mayor Steve Clark, she championed light rail as essential to controlled county growth.Fred L. Singer, the documentary and TV-commercial producer/director whose Coronado Studios helped pioneer Miami's film industry -- and launch several protégés' successful careers -- died of pancreatic cancer on Oct. 25.
Marshall Stanton Harris, a powerful Democratic legislator from Miami-Dade County in the 1960s and '70s -- and running mate of then-Florida Attorney General Jim Smith in an unsuccessful 1986 bid for governor -- died Monday of cancer at his Coral Gables home, said his son, Andrew. He was 77.
Richard Windsor McEwen, an astute businessman who more than doubled the size of the Burdines department store chain while its CEO from 1977 to 1984, was also a civic leader who worked toward multicultural harmony during a tumultuous time in Miami.
Judge Dixie Chastain, the first female University of Miami law school graduate and a Miami-Dade County juvenile judge for two decades, died Sunday at 100.
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.
Home to the young Lola Grace Hayes Dowling was a defunct airfield where her father test-grew fruit and foliage under the guidance of David Fairchild.
Mike McQueen, a journalist raised in Coconut Grove whose long career included three stints at The Miami Herald, has died. He was 52.
McQueen died Sunday in New Orleans of complications from cancer and congestive heart failure. He most recently worked as the Associated Press' bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi.Dr. Ralph J. Slonim Jr., a prominent South Florida cardiologist who established Baptist Hospital's first coronary ICU and worked with Jackson Memorial Hospital's first open-heart surgery team, died on Oct. 13.
Nathaniel Benjamin Rosoff, who retired to Miami Beach in 1968, once ran a New York steamship line, married a gorgeous show girl, played tennis on Carl Fisher's home court and attended so many title fights that HBO featured him in a boxing documentary.
Gildiana Soza, the 6-year-old Hialeah Gardens girl who received media attention during her arduous two-year battle with brain cancer, died Saturday afternoon.
Among other accomplishments, former Pan Am pilot George Jefferson Price flew the only civilian aircraft in the Berlin airlift.
Andel Mickins, an educator who spent 40 years in Miami-Dade County schools, was ``first lady'' of her husband's Memorial Temple Baptist Church and was a Florida Memorial University trustee, died Sept. 27. She was 85.
Charles Emerson ``Charlie'' LeClair Jr., an HIV/AIDS activist who fought for others suffering from the disease he contracted in the early 1990s, died Sept. 9. He was 56.
Bennett Michael Lifter, who built one of Sunny Isle Beach's signature '60s hotels and lobbied tirelessly for casino gambling -- believing it would transform Miami Beach into the world's premier vacation spot -- died Sunday, just shy of his 84th birthday on Oct. 6.
During World War II, when English households faced food rationing, a Manchester boy named John Lynch took matters into his own hands.
He snagged brook trout by the gills and snatched eggs from robins' nests for his family's meatless table.Before retiring from Beth David Congregation, Cantor William Lipson had memorized hundreds of Hebrew prayers, trained 1,000 boys and girls for their bar and bat mitzvahs and circumcised more than 5,000 Jewish boys as a sought-after mohel in Miami.
Prominent Cuban entrepreneur José Antonio Ortega Bonet, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, died yesterday morning at his Coral Gables residence at age 79. The cause of death was cancer.
Philanthropist Estelle Freedman Gould, one-time owner of the famously disputed Stonegate mansion in High Pines and benefactress to the University of Miami, died Friday -- her 95th birthday -- at her Coral Gables home.
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