Linda Everett
Growing up on Alexandria Street in San Marco in the house built by her parents in 1942, Linda Williams Everett showed an independent streak at an early age, and cherishes the memory of the fun times she spent hanging around with her best friend, Steve Pierce. “I had a really fun childhood. Halloween in San […]
Billy Fraser, Body Builder
Billy Wilson Fraser still sports his trademark long white hair, Paul Newman-blue eyes and a positive, energetic personality at 85. He immediately shared the fact that despite his current 5-feet-3-inch height he was all of 5 feet 6 inches during his prime. There is just something about this senior gentleman who was once a champion […]
After 50 years, San Marco cadets recall their days at Gordon Military College
It’s been 50 years since members of the Class of 1966 received their high school diplomas, and while most recall their secondary public school experience as the “good ole days,” the handful of Jacksonville students sent by their families to attend military school out of state recall their high school experience somewhat differently. In 1964, […]
Len and Vicki Burroughs
Murray Hill gained two of its strongest supporters when Len Burroughs and his wife, Vicki, moved to Jacksonville in 1972. As busy professionals with no children, most of their spare time was spent renovating the Ingleside home they bought in 1976. Then, in the early 1990s, two changes that would greatly alter the community turned […]
Murray and Janet Husney
Family and the Jewish faith are important to Murray and Janet Husney of San Jose. This is evident from colorful framed art and needlework depicting Jewish blessings and the Hand of God, which line the dining room walls of their San Jose home. Elaborately framed heirloom portraits of the couple’s beautifully coiffed and gowned parents […]
Doug Hutchins
As a young Lakeshore teen, Doug Hutchins never dreamed that riding a bus every day with Jacksonville Mayor John T. Alsop was the beginning of what would be lifelong ties to city government. Hutchins, 89, may be the only person still living to have had unique professional and personal relationships with Florida governor Cecil Farris […]
Former Camden Avenue residents walk down memory lane
It was a stroll down Memory Lane for more than 20 Camden Avenue childhood friends and former neighbors, who gathered with their families for a first-ever reunion in St. Nicholas March 19. Reconnecting through Facebook with their neighborhood friends from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, childhood best friends Anita Tiffany Dunford of San Jose and […]
Ruth Moore Berry
Imagine a time in Ortega without U.S.17/ Roosevelt Boulevard or when traffic consisted of a trolley running across the Grand Avenue Bridge. Ruth Page Moore Berry remembers it well. Growing up in Ball Cottage on unpaved Baltic Street with neighbors Honesta and James Willis of Sunshine House right next door, Berry had plenty of freedom […]
