Obituaries

Donna Hill, 75, of Edgewater, a former tow motor operator for General Electric, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

Phyllis Lee Wilson, 74, of Edgewater, owner/operator of a cleaning business, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

James Foster Grayson, 86, of Edgewater, a former steamfitter in the aerospace industry, died Monday, March 8, 2010.

Rosemary Carder, 81, of Edgewater, a Chicago native who came to this area in the 1980's by way of Orlando and Jacksonville, was a member of Smyrna Yacht Club, and was proud that she worked shoulder to shoulder with her husband of 57 years, J.C., who owned and operated Belmont Homes, died Monday, March 8, 2010.

Edward M. Hawkins, 81, of Edgewater, a former supervisor in the construction industry, died Monday, March 8, 2010.

Henry Louis Jackson, 60, of New Smyrna Beach, an Army veteran, died Sunday. March 7, 2010.

Henry Louis Jackson, 60, of New Smyrna Beach, a native of the city, survived by his daughter, Erica Jackson; caregiver, Yvonne Arnold, New Smyrna Beach; sisters-in-law, Rosalyn Young, Linda Jackson, Brenda Jones; aunt, Ida Cuthbertson, New Smyrna Beach; great-aunt, Juanita Jackson, New Smyrna Beach; nephews, nieces including Penny Smith-Haverly and Tammy Jackson-Holliday; and others, died Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Ronald Cleve Wilburn, 71, of Oak Hill, a truck driver who moved to the New Smyrna area 35 years ago from Cincinnati, died Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Rodney H. Centner, 84, of Oak Hill, an Air Force veteran of World War II and a police captain for the Town of Tonawanda Police Department, Town of Tonawanda, N.Y., for 28 years before his retirement, died Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Nina E. Boyd, 101, of Holly Hill, a former resident of New Smyrna Beach, died Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Patrick W. Connolly, 88, of New Smyrna Beach, a machine operator for VisiTrol Engineering, Detroit, before his retirement, who served in the British Merchant Navy as a chief engineer, was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, New Smyrna Beach and a 50 year member of the 3rd Degree Cardinal Mooney Council, Knights of Columbus in Redford, Mich., and survived by his wife of 60 years, Fidela, died Saturday, March 6, 2010.

J. Richard Glackin, 88, of Edgewater, a former sales representative, died Saturday, March 6, 2010.

James F. Savage, 88, of New Smyrna Beach, a former car inspector for Florida East Coast Railroad, died Thursday, March 4, 2010.

Gloria P. Arnold, who received her Registered Nurse degree from Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, while she was in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944, and worked as an R.N. in several hospitals in Maine and also as a student health nurse at Ohio University, Western Illinois University and the University of Central Florida from which she retired after 20 years,.died Wednesday, March 3, 2010.

Dawin "Nick" Nichols, 84, of New Smyrna Beach, a World War II Veteran stationed in Hawaii and Japan, who attended the Culinary Institute at Cornell University in New York, owned and operated the Barbizon Restaurant in Winter Park, and helped start both the Winter Park Art Festival and the Images Art Festival in New Smyrna Beach, died Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

Wilbur Conrad Uhl, 95,of Beacon, N,Y., and a former Edgewater resident, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.