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    OBITUARIES  

    MARY HELEN CLARKE
    Christian bookstore owner `found guidance in Bible'
    Mary Helen Clarke, longtime Christian bookstore owner, died Thursday morning at Jackson Memorial Hospital from heart failure. She was 86.

    SARA MAUDELL CUNNINGHAM 'MARTI' BOGGY, 82
    Realtor, owned tire shop
    Sara Maudell Cunningham ''Marti'' Boggy, who was raised on a Georgia farm and went on to become a highly successful Realtor and entrepreneur in Broward County, died Dec. 18 at her Fort Lauderdale home. She was 82.

    AVENEL 'JOHNNY' CESAIRE
    Talk host was voice of `People's Radio'
    Avenel ''Johnny'' Cesaire used his local radio show to try to unite the Haitian community and promote the fight for democracy in Haiti.

    MAX RAPHAEL
    Lawyer, longtime Aventura resident
    Max Raphael, a lawyer who made Aventura his home more than two decades ago, didn't use his retirement to lay back and relax. Instead, he read everything he could get his hands on and went to the gym every day, his family said.

    Former retail advertising staffer at Herald
    ALLAN B. CROSS, 81 Allan B. Cross, a retired Herald retail advertising staffer, died after an 18-year battle with heart disease Tuesday.

    THE REV. CONRAD R. WILLARD
    Ex-pastor at Central Baptist
    As a child, Conrad R. Willard dreamed of one day having fancy cars, a big house and all the material wealth he desired. But practically overnight his plans changed, turning him toward a life full of charity, wisdom and kind deeds.

    AUDREY H. WINTHERS,79
    Owned Dania Beach glass shop
    Audrey H. Winthers, co-owner of Winthers Glass Shop in Dania Beach, died at her home Sunday of complications stemming from emphysema.

    GORDON W. BLACKWELL
    FSU president in the early '60s
    (AP) -- Gordon W. Blackwell, who as school president led Florida State University through integration and a period of great growth in the early 1960s, has died. He was 92.

    RABBI SOL LANDAU, 83
    Longtime leader of Beth David
    Rabbi Sol Landau, the scholarly retired leader of Congregation Beth David in Miami, died of a stroke on Tuesday at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, his wife said. He was 83.

    Artist and lecturer, member of DAR
    MARY EVELYN BOWMAN BOYER Mary Evelyn Bowman Boyer, a former Miami resident and award-winning member of the Coral Gables branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died of heart complications Sunday in her hometown of St. Petersburg. She was 64.

    THOMAS LONG JACKSON
    Builder oversaw large projects
    Thomas Long Jackson, a longtime Miami resident and general contractor credited for building a number of Miami-area banks and Florida Power and Light electrical substations, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at Baptist Hospital. He was 74.

    MARGARET JULIA KELLY, 92
    An avid supporter of the arts
    Margaret Julia Kelly, Broward philanthropist and wife of the late William Russell Kelly, the founder and former chairman of temporary-employee agency Kelly Services, died Friday in Fort Lauderdale. She was 92.

    THOMAS WILLIAM HAGAN
    Ex-chief editor of Miami News
    (AP) -- Thomas William Hagan, the former editor-in-chief of The Miami Daily News who shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for an editorial campaign at that paper, died of a heart attack after a lengthy illness. He was 90.



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