This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gZ.2ADI/274.1 Message Board Post: FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS, Dec. 19, 1963: Rosa Alice Pierce, 81, a resident of 3111 Cleveland Ave., died yesterday at the Lee Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Pierce was a native of Lynchburg, Va., and a member of the McGregor Baptist church. She is survived by one son, Aubrey Pierce of Fort Myers and one daughter, Mrs. Robert F. (Marge) Edes of St. Petersburg. Arrangements will be announced later by the Harvey Funeral Home, Colonial Boulevard. Dec. 20, 1963: Funeral service for Mrs. Rosa Alice Pierce, 80, 3111 Cleveland Ave., will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the Harvey Funeral Home on Colonial Blvd. with Rev. Robert T. Liner, pastor of the McGregor Baptist church, officiating. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Warner, Endicott, N.Y., Mrs. Alice Decker, Palmyra, N. Y., Mrs. Robert Edes, St. Petersburg; three sons, Frank E. Pierce, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Aubrey Pierce, Fort Myers, Albert R. Pierce of Raton, N. M.; one sister, Mrs. Gertrude Paris, Lynchbburg, Va., 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Pierce was a Past Matron of endicott Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, Endicott, N. Y. Interment will be in the Memorial Gardens Cemeteery. FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS, Aug. 12, 1964: Aubrey Lee (Billy) Pierce, former newspaperman in New York and New Jersey, who wrote a column on trailer park news here several winters, was found dead of natural causes yesterday at 3111 Cleveland Ave. He died sitting in a chair in his trailer at the Fort Myers Trailer Park. Pierce, 58, was a member of the McGregor Baptist church and the Masonic Lodge in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Harvey Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert T. Liner, pastor of the McGregor church, officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Surviving are two brothers, Frank of Mt. Vernon and Albert of Raton, N. Mex., and three sisters, mrs. Rught Warner of Endicott, N. Y., Mrs. Alice Decker of Palmyra, N. Y. and Mrs. Marjorie Edes of St. Petersburg. Pierce worked all phases of reporting and desk work, starting with the Binghamton (N.Y.) Sun. His next work was on the Buffalo Evening News and he spent several! years with the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger. He came here to be with retired parents, both of whom died in the past two years.