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Cape Coral teen dies in head-on crash
A 19-year-old Cape Coral man died Wednesday after a head-on collision on State Road 31 near the Lee/Charlotte county line. Florida Highway Patrol said the young driver was headed north about 11 a.m. when his SUV crossed the center line and hit a car-hauler just south of Suzan Drive in rural Punta Gorda.
Noble Fredrick Ensminger
Noble Fredrick Ensminger, 95, just forty four days shy of his 96th birthday, of Port Charlotte, Florida, formally of Heyworth, Bloomington and Peoria IL, passed from this life unexpectedly and peacefully in his sleep into Heaven on April 12, 2024. He was born May 26, 1928 in Heyworth, IL, and was the son of Frederick Leadford and Florence Noble Ensminger. He was married to Barbara Ann Parlier in 1950, who survives in Bloomington, and from this union were born Sherry Vondran, Stephen Ensminger and Janice McCormick. Grandchildren: Jared, Justin, and Joshua Southwell, Kiona, and Colette McCormick, and Seven Great Grandchildren: Taylor, Haley, Rylie, Ella, Brooke, Kate and Xavier; and two Great Great Grandchildren: Lily and Axel; his sisters, Jule Ensminger and Fern Ensminger Noth He later married Dora Sapp Lyons at Peoria, IL. He was preceded in death by his parents and sisters Louise Greenfield, Eleanor Smith, and Winifred Ensminger and Dora Ensminger.
Punta Gorda cosiders fate of historic A.C. Freeman House
Punta Gorda City Council deliberated at its May 1 meeting about the future of a city-owned home built in 1903. It was built by politician and businessman Augustus C. Freeman whose name the house bears, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The wooden,...
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