Capt. Michael Burke sailed through life with his unending spirit and romantic outlook, touching the lives of many with his cruise empire, Windjammer Barefoot Cruises.

Billie Corinne Womack was an original from the day she was born — Oct. 1, 1919 — in Little Rock, Ark.

At Hialeah Senior High School, Carl Avery Lewis was known as a veteran biology teacher.

Ruth Kassewitz was a powerhouse Miami publicist and glass-ceiling breaker.

Polygraph expert Warren Holmes helped free wrongly convicted men from death row, and was working on a report about the man long believed to have killed a candy heiress.

Few cops anywhere were as tough and dedicated as Miami-Dade Police Officer Rocco.

Gustavo Alberto Noguera Delgado believed he was prenatally programmed to love Ludwig van Beethoven.

Edward Louis “Shorty” Allen built a South Florida dining institution one rib at a time.

Frances Kruvand Greer, Miami-Dade County’s top public health official in the 1980s, championed programs for the needy — because she could relate.

Margarita Chavez Dosal, the flamboyantly fancy, gleefully generous matriarch of a family that reestablished its Cuban tobacco company in Opa-locka after fleeing the Castro regime, died Monday night at her Miami Shores home of complications from diabetes. She was 73.

Well known South Florida architect Barry Sugerman, who designed dozens of capacious luxury homes with tropical touches in a prolific career that spanned more than four decades, died Tuesday.

Miami Beach High’s much beloved principal since 2007, Sidener knew every kid by first name, and worked to bring the “D” school up to an “A.”

Mark S. Palmieri and Ross V. Allan loved helicopters.

Funeral services for Dr. Joseph H. Davis, the revered former Miami-Dade County medical examiner, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, 2901 W. Flagler St.

Born Enrique Emilio Ros y Perez in Cienfuegos, Cuba, he was a businessman, writer and historian, authoring 19 books chronicling Cuba’s history and local politics.

A memorial service for Lily Marie Azarcon Tuason, one of four young adults killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 last week, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Florida Funeral Home & Crematory, 1495 NW 17th Ave. in Miami.

Vilius Vilsaint lived through a great swath of world history: the invention of the automobile and the airplane, both world wars, a U.S. occupation of his Haitian homeland that began in 1915 and lasted almost 20 years. Florvil Hyppolite, Haiti’s president from 1889 to 1896, was in power when he was born; Michel Martelly held that office on Sunday, the day Vilsaint passed away at Vitas Hospice Center in Fort Lauderdale.

Pediatrician Jaime Parladé made medicine his life, from his native Santiago de Cuba to North Dakota and the northeast before retiring to South Florida.