Thursday, January 3, 2013
Zachary McCarthy, a student at Bloomingdale High, who studied voice at Music Showcase in Brandon, died Jan. 2 after an accident at Natures Way and Golf Meadow Boulevard in Valrico. He is being remembered by a broad section of the community.
A Celebration of Life Service has been scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 6, for 16-year-old Zachary Douglas McCarthy, who died Jan. 2 after losing control of his car near the intersection of Natures Way and Golf Meadow Boulevard. The 6 p.m. service is set for the chapel at Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, at 2101 Bell Shoals Road. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to the Bloomingdale High School Music Department, according to McCarthy's online obituary at Southern Funeral Care. McCarthy, who lived in the Bloomingdale area of Valrico, was a student at Bloomingdale High, where he was active in the band, chorus and Ambassadors show choir, and a member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Riverview. He is surived …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
At Las Brisas Drive, between South Kings Avenue and Watson Road on Bloomingdale Avenue, a roadside memorial in the Greater Brandon community stands in memory of Andrea Bower, 13.
Stuffed animals, photographs and mementoes lay at the base of a roadside memorial that bears a sign that says: "RIP Andrea Bower." On the sign, family, friends and community members are stopping to put words to paper in memory of the 13-year-old, an eighth-grader at Giunta Middle School, who died from injuries suffered in a traffic crash on Bloomingdale Avenue, near Las Brisas Drive. Andrea Bower was struck Nov. 16 by a Ford sports-utility vehicle as she attempted to cross the lanes of Bloomingdale Avenue to catch the bus to school there. Minutes earlier, she had missed the bus at her regular bus stop, across the street at Buckhorn Springs Drive. Five women were at the roadside memorial Nov. 17 to post the sign and add mementos. They …
At Las Brisas Drive and Bloomingdale Avenue, in the Greater Brandon area of Riverview, a roadside memorial has been growing in tribute to the life of Andrea Bower, 13, who died from injuries sustained in a traffic crash there Nov. 16.
Two teenagers and three women arrived at the corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Las Brisas Drive on Nov. 17 carrying balloons, a sign, a stuffed animal and a head covering that Andrea Bower had always thought was cool. All in all, small signs of a great love and a tragic loss that family and friends are struggling to endure and a community at large is attempting to understand. “It’s a horrible tragedy,” said Lisa Kearney, whose family knew Bower and her family. “No one should have to go through this. And no child should have to feel this pain.” Bower, 13, a student at Giunta Middle School in Riverview, was struck Nov. 16 by a Ford sports-utility vehicle driven by a Riverview woman with two young children in tow. The accident happened at …
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Near the intersection of South Kings Avenue and Coppertree Circle, a memorial stands in tribute to 17-year-old Tyler Stich, who died June 15 after the SUV he was riding in overturned.
A roadside memorial stands along the shoulder of the road, just south of South Kings Avenue and Coppertree Circle, where Tyler Stich, 17, of Brandon, lost his life in a crash June 15. Capturing the grief of friends and family, this makeshift memorial gives testament to a life well-lived and a boy deeply loved and missed. A childhood baseball mit holds a small ball, and the promise from cousins, an aunt and others that Tyler never will be forgotten. "Paradise Found," reads a sign at the base of a wooden cross, which bears the words: "At peace in our Father's arms, never more a tear, only happiness & love." "I love u, u are always in my heart," reads another of the many testaments marked in black letters on the horizontal beam of the …
Mark Vargo
11:35 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
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