Boca Festival co-founder Charles Siemon dead at 74
By Dale King Boca Raton and South Florida have lost a knowledgeable member of the legal community, a land planner of considerable note and a lover of books, film, history and music who co-founded the Festival of the Arts Boca with his law partner, Wendy U. Larsen, in 2007. Charles L. Siemon, who would have turned 75 on Sunday, Sept. 27, died More...
Dr. Ira Gelb, FAU medical icon and Boca community leader, dies at 92
By: Dale King Dr. Ira Gelb was a man of medicine. But he was also a leader in the Boca Raton community, a physician who served his country in war years and served medical students at Florida Atlantic University More...
Founder of Boca’s ‘Beach Bash for Disabled’ Jay Van Vechten Passes Away at 75
By Dale King A man who dazzled Boca Raton with his sumptuous Christmas parties, his gentlemanly manners, his world traveler savvy and his ability to transform a community beach party for the disabled into More...
Jay Van Vechten Leaves Lasting Legacy in Boca Raton
Longtime Boca Raton Tribune contributor and nonprofit champion, Jay Van Vechten passed away today, July 11, 2020. Jay was an advocate and friend for the disabled in not only Boca Raton, but in South Florida. In More...
Obituary: Karen Elizathen Stegeman
Karen Elizabeth Stegeman, 54, of Phoenix, AZ, passed away suddenly on June 14, 2020 of a heart attack. She was born on May 14, 1966 in Toledo, OH as the only daughter of beloved parents John G. and Joann E. Stegeman More...
‘Bobby’ Campbell, Boca philanthropist, footwear icon, dies at 82
By Dale King Robert “Bobby” Campbell, a generous Boca Raton philanthropist who parlayed a part-time job in a shoe store into a global footwear enterprise, has died, barely a month after he was honored by the More...
Obituary Keren Newman
BURLINGTON, VT – Karen L. (Stetson) Newman, 58, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday morning, November 13, 2019 after an epic 11-year battle with breast cancer. Karen was born in Denver, Colorado More...
Carolyn Budd Kassoff (11/21/1933-05/30/2019)
Our Brightest Star On Thursday, May 30, 2019, the Great Northern Star that shone so brightly for 85 years, guided our family, cared for, cherished, and loved us, passed away after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s More...
Angela Madden, co-founder of international public relations firm Transmedia Group, dies in Boca Raton after long battle with breast cancer. She was 78
Angela Madden, who with her husband Thomas J. Madden, created and operated TransMedia Group, one of America’s leading international public relations firms, died Sunday at her home in Boca Raton after bravely More...
Obituary: Robert Tennies
Robert Hunter Tennies passed to Glory, Saturday, September 1, 2018 at age 66 following a heart procedure. Robert was born August 19, 1952 in Bogota, Colombia, the son of missionaries Leo Cornelius Tennies and More...
