Lakeland has lost one of its matriarchs. Nancye Thornberry, who founded the Polk Senior Games and helped start Mayfaire-by-the-Lake when she led the Polk Museum of Art, died Tuesday night after a long illness, She was 89.
Category: Obituaries
Jason Ashley Fouts, 49
APOPKA – Jason Ashley Fouts, 49, died of natural causes on March 10, 2020. He was born in Lakeland, Florida on March 8, 1971 to Patty and George Fouts, and attended Dixieland Elementary and Southwest Junior High. He graduated from Lakeland High School in 1989.
Revis David Higgs III, 73
Life-long Lakeland resident “David” Higgs, 73, passed away on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at Valencia Hills Health and Rehabilitation in Lakeland. Nov. 10, 1946 – March 17, 2020
Donald K. Stokes, 77
On Tuesday March 17, 2020, Donald K. Stokes, loving husband, passed away at the age of 77.
Eberto Pineiro, 79
Eberto Pineiro, 79, passed away Monday, March 16, 2020. He was born in Sucre, Bolivia on May 15, 1940 to the late Eberto Pineiro and Esther Alvarez.

