Find A Grave - Lee County

Berg, Patty b. February 13, 1918 d. September 10, 2006
Professional Golfer. She was credited with establishing the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) and served as its president from 1950 to 1952. During her career Berg was winner of more than 60 tournaments, including 15 majors. She was named the AP Woman Athlete-of-the-Year three times. Berg was inducted into the LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame. Cause of Death: Complications from Alzheimer's Disease. (Bio by: C.S.)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Plot: Christus Garden Lot A Sec A #2
Coleman, Joe b. July 30, 1922 d. April 9, 1997
Major League Baseball Player. Real name Joseph Patrick Coleman. He was a pitcher for ten seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers. His best year was 1948 when he notched a season high 14 victories and was named to the American League All Star Team. His son Joseph Howard Coleman was also a Major League pitcher. In 223 career games, Coleman won 52, lost 76 and had a 4.38 lifetime ERA. Coleman served in the US Navy during World War II. (Bio by: C.S.)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Plot: Prayer Garden SE Lot 12 #1
Damiano, Gerard b. August 4, 1928 d. October 25, 2008
Adult Film Director, Writer. He is best known for his work as the director of the 1972 adult film classic "Deep Throat." Shot in six days on a minimal budget, the motion picture introduced Linda Lovelace as a household name across the country, earning the film an estimated $600 million dollars by the year 2005. Denounced for its graphic sexual content by both religious and feminist leaders following its release, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
McCready, Mindy b. November 30, 1975 d. February 17, 2013
Country Music Singer. She is probably best remembered for her single "Guys Do It All the Time," which became her only Number 1 hit on the US Country charts in 1996. Born Malinda Gayle McCready, she began singing in her local church when she was 3 years old. She graduated from high school at the age of 16 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, two years later to pursue a musical career. She signed with BNA Records and released her debut album "Ten Thousand Angels" in 1996 that sold over two million...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Alva Cemetery, Alva, Lee County, Florida, USA
Russo, Marius b. July 19, 1914 d. March 26, 2005
Professional Baseball Player. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he made his debut with the New York Yankees as a left handed pitcher on June 6, 1939, and finished the season with an 8-3 record. He won 14 games in each of the 1940 and 1941 seasons and was named to the All-Star team in the 1941 season. He started a game in each of the 1941 and 1943 World Series and was a winner in both. His career World Series record was 2-0 with a 0.50 ERA in 18 innings pitched. He finished his career in 1946 with a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Sampler, Samuel M. b. January 27, 1895 d. November 19, 1979
World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Corporal in the US Army in Company H, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action near St. Etienne, France on October 8, 1918. His citation reads "His company, having suffered severe casualties during an advance under machine-gun fire, was finaly stopped. Cpl. Sampler detected the position of the enemy machine guns on an elevation. Armed with German hand grenades, which he had picked up, he left...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Plot: Veterans Lawn Crypt, Sec H, Space 70
Scarry, Mike b. February 1, 1920 d. September 9, 2012
Professional Football Player. For four seasons (1944 to 1947), he played at the center position in the National Football League and the All-America Football Conference with the Cleveland Rams and Cleveland Browns. He attended Duquesne High School in Pennsylvania and served with the United States Army (he was stationed in North Africa) during World War II, prior to playing collegiate football at Waynesburg University (Pennsylvania). Signed by the Rams as a non-drafted player in 1944, he...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Watson, Edgar J. b. November 11, 1855 d. October 24, 1910
Western Outlaw. Born in South Carolina, he owned a sugar cane plantation in southwest Florida during the lawless years of the late 19th and early 20th century. In his youth he got into a knife fight, killed a man and fled to the Oklahoma territories, where he left a trail of murders. In 1889, he was suspected of killing the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr, was put on trial, but nothing came of it and he was acquitted. Returning to Florida 1891, he killed a man in Arcadia, over a land...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Shot to death by a group of Chokoloskee, FL locals
Fort Myers Cemetery, Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA
Plot: Lot 8, Block 6

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