Bruce Terry
When your family has lived in the St. Nicholas area for over 100 years, telling their history takes time. Bruce Terry, 67, said preserving history is as important as getting the recognition for St. Nicholas he believes is overdue. St. Nicholas is located where Atlantic and Beach Boulevards intersect, east of San Marco and I-95. […]
John Bunker
At any given moment, local fine artist John Bunker can be found consulting with museums or discussing the upcoming season of the 2016 Riverside Fine Arts Association Concert Series, but what he really wants to do is paint in his home studio in Ortega. Bunker grew up in White Springs where he describes a remarkable […]
Susan Lovett Mullin
Susan Lovett Mullin believes San Marco is amazing. In the midst of this laid-back historic area, she said, are several important companies and famously successful individuals, and she feels privileged to have worked for three of those companies. All are significant in Jacksonville’s history, and operated in succession in the same Southbank tower. “I’m […]
Pansy Watts Helms
While Pansy Helms, 77, of Ortega Farms, has fond memories of moving into her tidy cul-de-sac neighborhood near Timuquana Road with her husband Doyle and two young children in 1971, she didn’t appreciate what her children had to go through for school. The Helms were unhappy that their children had to attend so many […]
Clarabel Cline Talmadge
Clarabel “Toni” Cline Talmadge, 88, always wanted to be a nurse, but after moving to Miramar in 1970, found a new calling. Originally from Virginia, Talmadge finished high school in 1944 during World War II and recalled a tremendous need for medical personnel at that time. She entered the Medical College of Virginia, now known […]
Philip Stockton May, Jr. & Gloria May
Phil May, who celebrated his 90th birthday in June, was born in 1925 at the old St. Vincent’s Hospital. He and his wife of 50 years, Gloria (Binzel) Sullivan May still reside in the Avondale-Riverside area where they first met. “We met in 1964 on a blind date to a Riverside Garden Club Christmas party. […]
Jean Furman Dart
People moved often during the Great Depression to find work and it was no different for Jean Furman Dart’s family. One of her earliest memories is of moving from Texas to Jacksonville so that her father could work in sales for Sherwin-Williams. Doctors also said that Florida’s weather could help Frank Furman’s chronic asthma, […]
Barbara Gann Spurlin
The day after her seventh birthday in 1940, Barbara Gann – along with her mother, grandmother and sister – left Atlanta in a Model T Ford for a 12-hour trip to Jacksonville, where her father had secured a new home on St. Johns Avenue. Recalling that time of transition as easy, Barbara Gann Spurlin said, […]
