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.

Julio La Rosa’s rapid ascent from criminal investigator in South Florida to senior director at IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., suddenly ended last week when he died of a suspected heart attack at 47, following a workout.

In his newspaper career, Harrison Harvey Smith covered it all, from the surrender of Japan to personal columns about raising five daughters.

The bowling-alley entrepreneur popularized the sport on television, and won every major title.

In the early 1960s, Bruce Netter left Coney Island with a carnival. He was a teenager growing up in a kosher household and getting a yeshiva education.

A long life of building, serving and advocating for the poor and elderly.

“You have five strikes against you,’’ the lieutenant told Sophie Bevilaqua, a rookie fresh out of the police academy and eager to launch her career with the Miami Police Department.

During the 1950s, convention dictated that the wife of a prominent professional stay home to raise the children.

Charlotte Joy Barkan, who joined the Florida Bar when female lawyers were rare and went on to appear as co-counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. She was 83.