The Way We Were: Elizabeth “Libby” Lee
Her knees may prevent her from walking these days, and her memory isn’t what it used to be, but at nearly 100 years old, Elizabeth “Libby” Battle Lee still has an engaging personality and tells great stories. She is full of many good memories of living, worshiping and clubbing in San Marco. When all is […]
The Way We Were: Dorsey-Ann Holz Rhames
Dorsey-Ann Rhames is proof that you can come home again. After growing up in Murray Hill and moving to Ft. Lauderdale, she eventually moved back into the house in which she grew up. Like the neighborhood itself, however, with her husband’s and her efforts, the house has changed somewhat. “My father’s name was Gunther Schlichtholz, […]
The Way We Were: Three Generations in San Marco
“Love Where You Live” is Juliette C. D. Vaughn’s mantra, both for business as a realtor and for life. Her grandparents, George and Martha Carlyon, moved to San Marco from Springfield in 1939. Three generations of Juliette’s family have attended Hendricks Avenue Elementary School. Both Juliette and her mother, Julianne “Julie” Carlyon DeJong, were born […]
The Way We Were: The Larson Sisters
Sue Jordan of Riverside joked that she and the movie, “Gone with The Wind,” came out the same year – 1939. Although she was raised in Riverside, Sue was born in Miami. “My mother was a ‘Conch’ (born in Key West, Florida), and she had gone down to visit her family while Daddy was in […]
The Way We Were: Joyce & Malcolm Hanson
Her most treasured wall hangings in the charming 1942 painted brick home on Dunsford Road help weave the story of Joyce and Malcolm Hanson’s lives individually and together in the San Marco and Lakewood areas. For Joyce, the drawing that hangs just to the right when you walk in the front door captures the beginning […]
The Way We Were: Allison Watson
Allison Watson said she was born to create art. Growing up in Ortega, Allison Watson spent many hours at the home of her grandparents, Malachi and Lucy Haughton, on the St. Johns River. An only child, she spent time fishing and shrimping off the dock at their house on Ortega Boulevard three houses down from […]
The Way We Were: William H. Rose
William Rose has a lifetime of memories and a postcard art collection that allows him to see Jacksonville through the eyes of his father, Max Rose, as well as recall his younger years growing up in Jacksonville. Rose, 92, has collected postcards produced in the early 1900s of Springfield and downtown Jacksonville that he has […]
The Way We Were: William J. Harp, Jr. & Barbara Parks Harp
According to William J. Harp of Avondale, he was handed “a life that is unbelievable.” Growing up in South Georgia in the 1930s, Harp’s family had a limited income. He worked as a soda jerk at the Rexall Drug Store in Brunswick owned by James Andrews, town mayor and the wealthiest man around. When his […]
