Viewing will be held on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 from 6:00PM to 9:00PM at Dobbs Funeral Home, 430 N Kirkman Rd, Orlando, FL 32811. Masks Required
Services will be Live on Zoom
Tuesday, Aug 31st, 2021 - 6:00PM-9:00PM
Meeting ID: 897 2331 1804
Meeting Passcode: 271502
Funeral & Last Rites of Cindy Darsan
Wednesday, Sept 1st, 2021 - 6:30AM-8:30AM
Meeting ID: 816 7657 5250
Meeting Passcode: 991091
Betty was born July 24, 1931 in Mobile AL. She learned early
to grab her own destiny when she taught herself to drive with the family’s car
in the front yard. A young Betty was a Beauty Queen and loved watching
her dad compete in boat races. She ran the custodial operations at the
Naval Training Center Orlando. Her true love of beautiful old furniture became
“Humbugs Antiques”, first in a shop near downtown Orlando and then in Mount
Dora. Working till the end, she just finished completely rebuilding a
beautiful chandelier a few months ago. We will miss her dearly!
Thelma
was born on March 5, 1939, in Scott County, VA to Orban and Bessie Barnett. She was graduated from Dobyns-Bennett
High School in Kingsport, TN and attended the Salvation Army’s School for
Officers’ Training. She and her husband David, were officers with The Salvation Army
with over 30 years of service with assignments in the Kentucky-Tennessee
Division, Florida Division and Atlanta Territorial Command. She is survived by her sons Greg
(Justine) Birmingham, of Ocoee, FL, and Mark (Lisa) Duke of Louisville, KY, two
sisters Mildred Height of Dayton, OH and Rose Castle of Maysville, GA, one
brother Bill Barnett of Rockford, TN, one grandchild, seven nieces, three nephews, and one
great-nephew.
Thelma lived at the Grand Villa Assisted Living facility in Altamonte Springs, FL since 2016. She held Sunday worship services there and taught a weekly Bible class and enjoyed making beads and designing jewelry with friends. She loved playing cards, board games, and working jigsaw puzzles, as well as coloring complex pictures.
About 15 years ago, Thelma was stricken with stage
four ovarian cancer. She survived, surprising her doctors, but has suffered
greatly from the side effects of chemo and radiation. In 2019 she learned that the cancer had
returned. She chose not to have chemo, radiation, or
surgery. She was under the care of hospice since October 2020
and was Promoted to Glory on August 7th, 2021.
A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, August
21, 2021, at 11:00 a.m., at the Salvation Army Citadel Corps, 244
W Colonial Drive, Orlando,FL.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jose’ Rivera and Amparo Rodriguez and her brother, Angel Rivera.
Maria leaves behind her beloved husband,
Enrique Cruz of Orlando, FL and several nieces and nephews in North Carolina.
Although Maria never had children of her own she loved children and worked
as a teacher.
Maria was a godly woman that lived her
life by the Bible. She had a wonderful sense of humor and loved a good laugh.
Maria enjoyed watching Spanish soap operas, Westerns, beautiful flowers and her
two chihuahuas.
The family will be receiving friends on Friday, August 20, 2021 at 5:00 pm followed by a 6:00p funeral service at Dobbs Funeral Home with Deacon Spencer Silvers officiating.
Jim was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 1st, 1945. He grew up in Carmel, Indiana, attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic School and graduated from Carmel High School. He played four years of varsity football and he was President of the Student Council. During his time at Butler University, he was in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. On August 26, 1967, he married his high school sweetheart, Sally McCracken.
He was in the newspaper and automobile businesses. He was a founding member of Holy Family Catholic Church for forty five years. Jim enjoyed golf, attending PGA events, travel and most importantly time with his family. He never missed a family celebration.
John was born on January 20, 1936, on a dairy farm in Jefferson City, Missouri, and grew up surrounded by a loving family. Even before the rooster crowed, John would get up, get dressed, and work with his father (Poppy) - morning til night - milking the cows, feeding the chickens and pig, plowing, bailing hay, and generally tending to their 200+ acres. He went to high school in Jeff City, where he played football and ran track. John attended the University of Missouri and graduated in Civil Engineering. With his work ethic from the farm, and an ethos from another era, he spent the next 40 years with the same company selling construction products.
John met the love of his life, Marlene, in Nassau, Bahamas at a Catholic Alumni Club retreat - the "CAC" or what Marlene ("Boo") thought John looked awfully handsome in his plaid Bermuda shorts and she was hooked. They would marry, live first in Edina, Minnesota and then move to Atherton, California, where they raised three children.
John and Boo were married for 54 years. John was devoted to Boo. While not much of a cook, unless you liked your steaks well done, when Boo was recovering from knee surgery he cooked her pasta every night and made her pancakes every morning. John was an amazing father. Always the athlete, he coached his kids' soccer and baseball teams. He taught them to golf, play tennis, and ski in Lake Tahoe, holding them steady between his legs, which had to be exhausting. John was also an incredible grandfather. He never missed a Baptism, First Communion, or graduation; and would travel the country at a moment's notice to spend time with his grandkids, even at a rain-soaked Michigan football game. And John did it all with a smile and an infectious laugh. No one remembers John saying a harsh word about anyone. He was kind and welcoming, a pillar of his church and community, and always generous with his time and treasure. John didn't have to know you to strike up a conversation, which he did often, sometimes to his family's embarrassment. But that did not matter to John. To him, everyone had worth and everyone had a story.
John loved his family, his church, his rose garden, and the family farm in Jeff City. He loved watching sports, any sport really, but particularly his Golden State Warriors. He loved John Denver, Harry Belafonte and Fiddler on the Roof, and singing (not always well) to their songs. John loved to travel and he loved good food, especially vanilla ice cream with Baileys Irish Cream. And John loved being spoiled by Boo. In the end, while the hospital said no to the Baileys, John passed peacefully surrounded by his loving wife, his children and grandchildren, red roses , and John Denver's "Back Home Again" playing in the background as he journeyed home to heaven.
John is survived by Boo, his three children: Megan Morris (Craig), John Rackers (Vanessa), and Mark Rackers (Molly); nine grandchildren: Lennox, Luca, William, John Kelly, Miles Mia, Eliana, Emilia, and Jacob, his siblings: Lucille Krummen, Edwin (Mary) Rackers, Betty Boyd, Fred (Susan) Rackers, and Evelyn (Conrad) Rehagen; and more -than-you-count nephews, nieces, and cousins, who all loved John and will miss him terribly. John was predeceased by his mother and father, and his brothers-in-law Delbert Krummen and Ron Boyd.
John will be honored at a funeral mass on August 20, 2021 at the Chapel of the Holy Family Catholic Church on 5125 S. Apopka Vineland Road in Orlando, Florida. There will a biewing at noon, followed by the mass at 1:00 PM.
William Edward Weckbacher (Bill)
He enjoyed hunting , fishing, gardening and a general love
of the outdoors. His special love of growing Bromeliads lead to developing
hybrids, which ended up registered in the Smithsonian. Bill enjoyed collecting coins, fishing lures,
rocks and guns. He was an expert at flint napping of arrow and spear heads.
Whatever activity he took on, he would go all in with dedication to perfection.
Above all these hobbies he took great
pride in his kids and his grandkids. He will be forever missed by all.
Bill leaves, to cherish his memory, son Thomas Weckbacher
with his wife Julie Weckbacher and Daughter Jeanne Atalski with her husband
Kevin Atalski. Grandchildren Michael
Watson, Ryan Weckbacher, LeeAnn Weckbacher, Tayler Weckbacher, Kelsea Hallberg,
Kayla Wright, and Alexa Trull. Bill had
two loving sisters Linda Totten and Marilyn Picuri who currently reside in Cortland,
OH.
Family welcoming guests to a Chapel service on Saturday, August 21, 2021 from
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Dobbs Funeral Home
430 N. Kirkman Road
Orlando, FL 32811
And immediately following all Family and Friends welcome at
Celebration of Life visitation anytime between 2:00 – 5:00 pm at
6843 W. Livingston St.
Orlando, FL 32835
A legacy Worth More
than Gold
The Eulogy of Eudine
Hinds-McKoy
Eudine Hinds-McCoy embarked on her journey in mortality on
Monday December 14th, 1942.
She was the first child born to parents, Albert Hinds and Urinthia
Curtis, in the farming community of Orange River, St Mary. The young family was
of humble circumstances and both Albert and Urinthia labored diligently to provide
the necessities of life for their new born. With the passage of time, Eudine
was joined by a younger brother, Lloyd. However, the family union was short
lived as a result of the premature separation of her parents. The sting of
these circumstances, no doubt, provided much tutelage for Eudine in her
formative years relative to the realities of life. Through her interactions with
both parents, close family members, and community she was schooled in matters
of the heart, religion, moral agency, hard work and discipline. As Eudine grew,
these life lessons concretized into a fixed determination to better her
circumstances and that of her future family.
Eudine’s ambition in life was no secret to those who knew
her. Like most young ladies, she desired to one day have her own family and be
able to provide appropriate circumstances befitting the rearing of children. Around
1958, she met and fell in love with Milford Clarke, a farm worker from her
community. She was hopeful that this union would be the means by which her
dreams of rearing the ideal family would be realized. The union produced her
first child, Julette Clarke. She was overjoyed about the prospect of curating
her own family, but this was short lived due to unforeseen eventualities.
Though not the result she was expecting, Eudine gathered courage and with a fixed
determination tried again, when a certain handsome fellow in the person of
Lloyd Jackson called on her. The two courted and in time their union produced
five children: Denzel, Joan, Owen, Junior and Wayne. The two settled their
family in a humble community in Hopewell, St Mary. As a team, Eudine and Lloyd
laboured tirelessly to satisfy the demands of their family. Eudine was
especially keen on reinforcing the dos and the don’ts of life to her children.
She insisted that their lessons at school be taken seriously and that their
obedience and respect towards authority figures be forth coming in exactness. She
further insisted that her children’s behaviour abroad was an exhibition of the
values taught at home. Eudine spared no chance at reinforcing the idea that the
gazes of her children should not linger towards the pitfalls that befell so
many young people at the time.
After a valiant fight and admirable persistence to maintain
the dignity of her family, the slowly brewing and ultimately unforgiving challenges
of life took its toll, and waged some crippling blows to the relationship
between Lloyd and Eudine. This resulted in the two separating. Broken hearted, sad, and a little discouraged
she found solace in the company of a kind friend, Noel Lee. The two grew fond
of each other and in time this relationship produced her last child, Craig Lee.
Eudine’s love for her children could not be denied. After
surveying their circumstances, and the difficult prospect of supporting them in
achieving the kind of education that would make a sustained difference in their
lives, she determined to seek opportunities outside of her present situation
and space. In 1980 she travelled to Canada to seize the means by which her
carefully calculated plans for her children’s success would be realized. While
in Canada she obtained a job as a house keeper. This Job provided the means for
her to send the needed resources for her children and pay her tuition for a
dental course she was pursuing. In time, Eudine’s longing to be with her
children triumphed and she resolved to return home to be with them in 1985.
It was indeed a joyous
reunion for Eudine and her children who were all now grown and certainly past
the worst. Eudine’s labour of love was not in vain and she was able to find
comfort and hope in the prospect of her children realizing a brighter future.
After the grand reunion with her children, Eudine started a
business where she sold clothing and grocery items. It was during this time that
she met and fell in love with Neville McKoy. The two got married and became
business partners where they manufactured and sold scented and pastoral candles
to churches and hotels on the island. The love between Eudine and Neville was
unflinching and admirable, she was his lady and the love of his life and he,
the apple of her eyes. The two lived happily for many years together while they
served their community as devote members of the Roman Catholic Church. During
this time of relative peace, tragedy struck the family with the loss of her
fifth child, Junior Jackson in 2002. It was a difficult time, however, united,
the family was able to bolster through this time of trial. Subsequent to this
time of grief, it would be many years before the passing of her beloved husband
Neville. Though difficult, she handled the circumstances with dignity and
grace.
The Latter years of Eudine’s life marked a time of quiet reflection.
After her best efforts, the dust had settled and the vision which she dreamed
of as a little girl was now clear for all to behold. All her children are now professionals in
their respective careers. The effects of her push have now transcended
generations, with each generation achieving more and more success academically
and professionally. Some of whom have served in national and international
capacities.
The path to the realization of Eudine’s dreams was certainly
unconventional, yet in the end they were all realized.
On Thursday, August 5th 2021, 79 years to the time of her birth, she departed mortality with a legacy that is sure to stand the test of time. She died leaving: 8 siblings, 6 children, 23 grand children, 14 Great Grandchildren, Nieces and Nephews, and other relatives and friends.
She might be gone from us for a season but her influence lives in and through us. Rest in peace Mama Eudine, God be with you till we meet again.
Visitation will be held from 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at Dobbs Funeral Home in Orlando. The funeral mass will be held at 4:00 pm with Deacon Armand officiating. A second service will be held on August 27, 2021 also at the funeral home. The time will be posted at a later date.
Ms. Hilma was very caring, loving, with a sassy sense of humor. She was the life of the party and loved by all. Ms. Hilma loved the Lord and worshipped at Grace Bible Church here in Orlando, where she was a member of the Women's Group and very active in her Church and the community.
Ms. Hilma maintained good health up until 2017 when her health started to decline. Ms. Hilma got progressively worse, and for the past three years was cared for by her loving husband Herelio at home. Ms. Hilma unfortunately passed away on Tuesday, July 27th, 2021 at 8:06 am at home surrounded by her family and caregiver.
Ms. Hilma leaves behind her husband Herelio, stepdaughter Joy (New York) and Sharon (Canada), sisters Joan and Gwendolyn (Jamaica), brother Roynell (Jamaica) and a host of nieces, nephews, grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
The family would like for all to remember her vibrant laughter, her peculiar jokes and friendly nature, always welcoming everyone with open arms.
Public visitation will be held from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 at Dobbs Funeral Home. A second visitation will be held at 10:00 am, followed by the funeral service at 11:00 am on Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at Grace Bible Church, located at 801 Dorscher Rd, Orlando FL 32818 with Pastor Gene Pritchard officiating. Entombment will follow the funeral service at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Due to the increase in cases of the COVID 19 virus the family has decided not to engage in a repast after the burial.