David Cichanski
David Cichanski of Sun City Center, Fla., passed away Dec. 21, 2014.
Dave was born July 13, 1942, in Detroit, Mich., to Genevieve and John Cichanski. He was joined later by a sister, Deborah, and a brother, Dennis. Dave attended Catholic grade school and graduated from Sacred Heart High School. During those years, he was a member of the choir at Sacred Heart.
After high school, he joined the Army for three years, serving for the most part in Heidelberg, Germany, in the Intelligence Division, U.S. Army Headquarters, Europe. Shortly after leaving the Army, he met his English wife, Pam, in Germany. They married in 1967 and enjoyed an idyllic summer traveling throughout Europe on Dave’s motorcycle.
On his return to America, Dave joined the American Tobacco Company as a sales representative for the Lower Michigan area and after four years, was hired by a major consumer products company and transferred to St. Louis. A daughter, Nicole and a son, Anthony, were born in St. Louis. After 10 years in St. Louis, Dave was again transferred, this time to the west coast of Florida. During this period of time, he traveled extensively for the company while enjoying life in Florida.
As the children became independent, Dave and Pam retired to Sun City Center, where an opportunity for another career presented itself in the form of new home sales for the local developer. It was Dave’s great pleasure for the next 11 years to find homes for retirees in his favorite community. When a second retirement presented itself, he left WCI, bought successively two motor homes and did some traveling across the United States, though these plans were curtailed by some medical obstacles. We are the most fortunate of parents in having our wonderful families living within just a few miles.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Pam; children Nikki and Tony (Laura) Cichanski; sister Deborah (Christopher) Delwiche; and brother Dennis Cichanski.
Funeral Mass with Military Honors will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 702 Valley Forge Blvd., Sun City Center, Fla. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy, 485 Half Day Road, Suite 200, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089.
Arrangements by Sun City Center Funeral Home.
Helen C. Foster
Helen C. (Clark) Foster passed away peacefully on December 16, 2014, Sun City Center, Fla., in her 89th year.
Born in Dundee, Scotland, on Oct. 7, 1925, to Alexander Dalgetty Wood and Jane Fyfe (Kennedy) Black, Helen was the second of five children. The Second World War disrupted her education, as it did for so many, while Britain was fully engaged. Young Helen at age 17 volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was assigned to the RAF College in Cranwell, England, to study radar. Her first posting was to the Drone Hill RAF Station in Scotland, where she met Gilbert (Gil) Foster, who was also in radar with the Royal Canadian Air Force. They married in 1944 and remained so for 67 years, until Gil’s death in 2012. With the war ended, Gil returned to Canada to attend McMaster University under the Canadian G.I. Bill to study nuclear physics and engineering. Helen was able to follow shortly after aboard the specially commissioned war bride ship Queen Mary with their infant son, Murray, born in Scotland.
Initially settling in Gil’s hometown of Hamilton, Ont., Canada, daughter Leigh was born in Canada. The Foster family grew, with a second daughter, Deirdre, and son Ian born while living in upstate New York for 18 years, where Helen worked in clinical chemistry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Employment prospects took the Foster family to many ends of the country and world. A year in Chicago, two in southern California, two in Syracuse, N.Y., and several in Moorestown, N.J., until a final stint for MIT and RCA in Micronesia, where Helen relaxed and learned how to swim and sail.
Retiring to Sun City Center in 1988, Helen was an avid volunteer, participating in more than 18 organizations, many in leadership roles, such as the Audubon Society for more than 20 years; a reading tutor for 12 years; ushering at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center for 20 years; the first Chancellor Emeritus of the Freedom Plaza Graduate School for Seniors; and president of the Photo Club and the Computer Club. She also established the Butterfly Garden at Camp Bayou on the Little Manatee River.
Helen was a conversationalist, an extremely curious person and an avid reader with many activity interests. She loved music and arts, especially opera, canoed at age 85, loved debate, was an enthusiastic self-proclaimed “Energizer Bunny,” always up for a party or get-together, loved travel to Provence, France, and Scotland, and loved her “extended” multinational family. Helen was a woman of remarkable and enduring friendships dating to World War II. We will all miss her vitality, sense of adventure, strong convictions and her living life to the fullest.
Helen is survived by her four children: Murray Foster, S. Leigh Diakopoulos (Anestis) of East Greenwich, R.I., Deirdre Totten (John), of Seattle, Wa., and Ian Foster, M.D.(Sally) of Delaware Water Gap, Pa.; grandsons Christopher, Nicholas and Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Kevin Foster; brother Alexander Black of Hamilton, Ont.; sister Margaret Dick of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland; nephew Glenn Taylor, also of Hamilton, Ont., Canada; many Scottish and Canadian nieces and nephews and many treasured friends.
A local Sun City Center Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 2, at Freedom Plaza Auditorium, 1010 American Eagle Blvd., Sun City Center FL 33573. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the charity of your choice, or to Samaritan Services, 916 S. Pebble Beach Blvd., Sun City Center, FL 33573.
Jess Anton Olesen
Jess A. Olesen, 78, of Sun City Center, Fla., passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 21, 2014. at Sun City Center LifePath Hospice.
Born in Baltimore, Md., on September 30, 1936, he graduated from Glen Burnie High School in 1955 and retired as a Security Specialist from the U.S. Federal Government General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Protective Service in Washington, D.C. As a young man, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserves and was called to active duty during the Cuban Crisis in 1961.
Jess and his wife, Jeannette, moved from Linthicum, Md., to Sun City Center in 1999. Jess was a Past Master of Masonic Order Sincerity Lodge #181 in Baltimore, joined the Shriners, belonged to Boumi Temple in Baltimore, and was a member of the Scottish rite. Upon moving to Florida, he became a member of the Egypt Shrine in Tampa, the Sun City Center Shrine Club, and the Scottish rite.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Jeannette (née Desrosiers), and three daughters: Pamela Gill (Gary Sr.) of Ruskin, Fla.; Lynnette Shutty (Frank) of Severn, Md.; and Karen Custodio (Reynaldo) of Marriottsville, Md. He is also survived by grandchildren Alyssa Shutty Stoffel (Brent) of Severn, and Stephanie and Zachary Custodio of Marriottsville.
Memorial Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 701 Valley Forge Blvd., Sun City Center, FL 33573.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Egypt Shrine Transportation Fund at 4050 Dana Shores Drive, Tampa, FL 33634, or www.egyptshrine.org, in his name. Donations may also be made to Sun City Center LifePath Hospice, 3723 Upper Creek Drive, Ruskin FL 33573, or www.LifePathHospice.org/SCC, and can be contacted at Wilbur@chaptershealth.org for additional information.
John Irwin Thomas Moloney
John Irwin Thomas Moloney, 87, passed away December 24, 2014. He was born March 29, 1927, in Glen Ellyn, Ill., to the late John Joseph and Florence Mae (Herne) Moloney. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, John Joseph Moloney III, and sister, Patricia Nichols.
John served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the South Pacific. He earned master’s degrees in engineering and business from the University of Chicago. He retired as president of a waste-water treatment plant. He moved to Sun City Center in 2001 and worked for CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) and the SCC Security Patrol. He was a Baptist and enjoyed lawn bowling, sailing, scuba diving, woodwork and golfing. He was a very accomplished man.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife of 34 years, Joyce, of Sun City Center; daughters Dorothy Thomas and her husband Dave, Janice Cryns and her husband Brendan, and Virginia “Ginger” Heus, all of Wisconsin; sons Jack Moloney of New Jersey and John “Bill” William Moloney and his wife Kelly of Iowa; stepchildren, John Yockey and his wife Kristin of Nebraska, Michael Yockey and his wife Karen of North Carolina and Karen Steele and her husband Raymond of Florida; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hope Children’s Home, 11415 Hope International Drive, Tampa, FL 33625 or First Baptist Church of Ruskin, 820 W. College Ave, Ruskin, FL 33570.
Memories and condolences may be left online at www.skywaymemorial.com
In Memoriam
Jesse McKendree
Hey, son, we have a wonderful
Christmas for you,
a new nephew.
He is named after you.
We miss you and love you.
You are my heart.
Mom, Aaron, Kandis and Jesse
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