When Joseph Unanue began to formally work at Goya Foods in 1952, the family business was a regional enterprise.

A lifelong Miami Beach resident, Les Beilinson saved landmarks and took on some quirky jobs elsewhere. He died Friday.

Melba Ines Manero served six terms as a Surfside commissioner, often running unopposed.

A South Florida businessman and experienced pilot died over the weekend when his Cessna crashed in the Everglades.

Anthony Jerome Lee, fatally shot Tuesday in East Tampa, was better known in Miami Beach as “Wanda,” a balloon-breasted drag queen famous for her Whitney Houston impersonations and penchant for being, well, a bit of a jerk.

Services will be Friday for the 10-year-old who spent more than half her life battling cancer.

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.”