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Obituaries
William Sanders
William Keith Sanders, 32, passed away Aug. 30,
2014 following an automobile accident near
Hawthorne.
He came to Hawthorne five years ago from
Gainesville and Williston. He enjoyed hunting,
fishing and his top priority was spending time with
his children.
Survivors include father, Larry Keith Sanders of
Williston; grandmother, Doris Sanders of Williston;
son, Christian Sanders; daughter, Adelia Sanders;
brothers, Trinity (Tammy) and Chris (Ana) and a
sister, Karen.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Adelia
in 1988.
Visitation will be Friday, Sept. 5 from 6-8 p.m. at
Cornerstone Assembly of God in Williston. Funeral
services will be held Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. at
the church.
Knauff Funeral Home, Williston, is in charge of
arrangements.
Willie Frank Watson
Willie Frank Watson, 75, of Otter Creek died
Sept. 2, 2014.
Survivors include daughters, Linda Kay (Kenny)
Brown of Bronson, Stephanie Watson of Bronson
and Amy (Slugger) Lanham of Otter Creek; broth-ers,
Jimmy Wright of Chiefland and Hughie
Watson of Williston; seven grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren with another on the way.
Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, Sept.
4 at 11 a.m. at the Knauff Funeral Home Chapel,
Chiefland with the Rev. Billy Keith officiating.
Burial will follow at the Chiefland. In lieu of flow-ers
the family requests donations to be made to the
family for funeral expenses.
Arrangements are under the care of Knauff
Funeral Home, Chiefland.
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Dr. Lindo joins Regional General Hospital
Dr. Hersell Lindo has
joined Regional General
Hospital as a Board
Certified Obstetrician/
Gynecologist.
He currently is in pri-vate
practice in Ocala
and has admitting and
consulting privileges at
Monroe Regional
Medical Center.
He attended Medical
School at the University
of the West Indies and
went on to complete his
residency training at
Columbia University
Affiliated Hospital in
New York City.
He has served as an
associate professor in
the department of
Obstetrics/Gynecology
at Michigan State
University. He has also
been involved in various
committees and held
several different posi-tions
including Medical
Director at Bronson
Methodist Hospital,
Kalamazoo, Mich.,
Chairman of Infectious
Disease Committee,
Calais Regional
Hospital, Calais, Maine
and Chairman of the
Surgical/Operating
room Committee.
In a joint effort,
Regional General
Hospital and Dr. Lindo
are reaching out to serve
a void in this communi-ty
and the surrounding
areas. Dr. Lindo is
extremely excited and
honored to be able to
serve the women of this
community. He looks
forward to bringing ser-vices
which include
family planning, well
women exams, and
pre-natal care. Dr.
Lindo also has a clear
vision of what services
he can begin to offer in
the future at Regional
General Hospital
including new out-pa-tient
procedures and
testing.
Dr. Lindo will be see-ing
patients at the
Regional General Rural
Dr. Hersell Lindo
Health Clinic located at
125 SW 7th St.,
Williston on Tuesdays
beginning Sept. 2.
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By MARK SCOHIER
news2@chieflandcitizen.com
As a scientist, Dr. Ken
Sulak is trained to make
observations.
He makes his living
studying the ways of the
natural world, with an
emphasis, in recent years,
on the lives of sturgeon
swimming the lengths of
the Suwannee River.
But his professional
work over time has bled
into his personal inter-ests:
observations on the
lives of humans and their
place in the world.
"In the course of being
on the river, you run into
a lot of people, a lot of
old timers," Sulak said
from his office at the
U.S. Geological Survey
last week.
For the last few years,
Sulak has been engaging
in a side project to docu-ment
through photos
and recordings the lives
of older generations liv-ing
on and around the
Suwannee River.
In the last 20 years,
there's been a big demo-graphic
shift in the area,
he said, explaining that
the descendants of peo-ple
who came down
from Georgia and the
Carolinas in the thou-sands
in the 1830s and
40s are all dying out.
"The people that live
there now have money,"
he said, which is a big
departure from the cul-ture
that once eked out a
living from whatever
resources were available.
"That culture is disap-
pearing," and, surpris-ingly,
not much has
been done to preserve
those stories, he said.
On Saturday, as part
of his ongoing research
and documentation,
Sulak, along with the
help of the Dixie
County Historical
Society, has organized
an oral history storytell-ing
event called "Lore,
Lies and Legends of the
Suwannee."
The event, which
includes a cookout and
live bluegrass music,
begins at 4:30 p.m. at
the Dixie County
Cultural Center (the
former Old Town
School).
Sulak, who is also
working with the
University of Florida's
Samuel Proctor Oral
History Program, the
Florida Memory project
and the Smithsonian,
said it's important to
make the information
accessible.
"I'd like to educate
younger people," he
said. "I don't know if it
will work."
But, he said, he's hop-ing
Saturday's event will
give him some idea of
public interest. And if
all goes well, Sulak said
in the future he'd like to
break the project on the
river into different
regions: Lower, Middle
and Upper Suwannee
River. The people of
each region varied
slightly in how they
made use of the river, he
said.
"There's a lot to
learn." The "scene is
very different than what
it was a generation or
two earlier." And it's
important to show peo-ple
how things used to
be, he said.
"People talk about
conservation ... well,
what are you getting
back to?"
Sulak said his focus is
on how the use of
resources has changed
over the years.
The Suwannee, with
all of its ancient cypress
trees, was "like a red-wood
forest" at one
time, he said. And a
couple of men armed
with cane poles on the
Gulf could fill a boat in
a couple of hours with
sea trout. "Now, you
could go out all day and
not catch five."
The system has
changed dramatically, he
said.
"You talk to these
people and you realize,
wow, this was really dif-ferent
back then."