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FURNEY R. HEMINGWAY, JR. Furney Rhem Hemingway, Jr., 91, of Palatka, passed away Friday, December 30, 2022 at HCA Florida Putnam Hospital in Palatka. Considered the patriarch of his family, Furney had lived in Palatka for the past 5 years coming from Palm Coast. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina and was 1949 graduate of Kingstree High School. He had lived in Kingstree until he enrolled in the University of South Carolina where he graduated with the Bachelor's degree in Journalism. He was a long-time employee of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper where he worked as a type editor. He was veteran of the US Army. Besides his parents, Furnifold Hemingway and Sarah Gary Cheatham,...

Virginia Osteen Mitchell, 94, of Palatka, FL (lovingly called "Jenny" by family and friends), departed this life on Monday, December 27, 2021 to go home to be with her Lord and family. Jenny was born in Hollister, FL where she grew up. She was part of a pioneer family of Putnam County, FL (the Osteen's). When she was 32, she lost her first husband, Bruce Squires, in a car accident and was left with three children to raise. She went to nursing school and became a Licensed Practical Nurse. Along with her husband, Wiley "Hawk" Mitchell, she owned and operated the Silver Lake Grocery in the 1960s. She and her husband moved to Milton, FL where she worked as a nurse for 35 years. After...

Linda Sue Parsons, 64, of Interlachen, FL passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at UF Health Shands in Gainesville, FL following a brief illness. Linda was born in Charleston, WV and had lived in Interlachen for only six months, coming from WV. She was preceded in death by her husbands, William Hughart and David Parsons; her father, Elmer Gibson; her mother, Laura Pritt; four brothers; one sister; a grandson, Joshua Dale Rowan; and two great grandsons, Bryson Kole Davis and Gabriel Paul Perry. Surviving are two sons and a daughter-in-law, David and Melissa Parsons of Palatka, FL and Charles Wesley Hughart of Starke, FL; three daughters and sons-in-law, Tammy Lynn Rowan of Grandin, FL, Laura...