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Donald L. Chestnut, age 59, died Wednesday, March 3, 2021, of natural causes.  He was born June 7, 1961, the son of the late Joseph L. Chestnut and Carolyn Ruth Barrick Chestnut. Survivors include his brothers, David (Beth) E. Chestnut of Asheville, NC and Daniel L. Chestnut of Senoia, GA; his sister, Diane Chestnut Rajani of Senoia, GA; a niece, Zoe Chestnut of Asheville, NC. Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4 PM at McLaughlin Mortuary, 17 Chestnut Avenue, Fort...

Robert (Bob) Merrill Fletcher, Sr. After a successful 25 year career in the US Air Force Bob Fletcher became a physics teacher at the FWB High School from 1972 to 1995 where he was loved by students and faculty alike. Bob was born in 1930 in Fitzgerald, Georgia to T.Wiley Fletcher and Nellie C. Fletcher. He was born as the 9th of thirteen children.  Bob graduated from the Fitzgerald High School in 1947.  He obtained a BS in Physics from the University of Georgia, and a MS in...

Mary Holland, age 80, passed away on March 2, 2021. Your prayers and condolences are appreciated and comforting to her family.   Interment will be at Barrancas National Cemetery, services will be private. 

John Ledbetter, retired local attorney and writer for the Destin Log, passed away February 28th, 2021. John was born in Tampa, Florida on January 16th, 1955 to parents Hunter Dillard Ledbetter and Finabelle Ledbetter. He attended law school at Florida State University, home of his favorite football team. He went on to become a state attorney in Jacksonville, Florida. Later moving to the Destin area, where he was able to pursue his love of golfing and fishing. He served on the board of the...

Thomas “Tango Tom” Testa has left this earthly realm to rest in the arms of God.  He passed away, peacefully in his sleep, due to pancreatic cancer, on February 27th, 2021.  He was surrounded by family at the time of his passing in Niceville, Florida.   Tom was born Thomas Joseph Testa to Joseph Testa and Margaret (Breslin) Testa on April 7, 1932, in Philadelphia, PA.  He dedicated his life to the service of our country, first by serving United States...

Marie McCallum, age 101, passed away on February 27, 2021. Your prayers and condolences are appreciated and comforting to her family.    

Dorthy Martin, age 84, passed away on February 22, 2021. Your prayers and condolences are appreciated and comforting to her family.   Inurnment at Destin Memorial Cemetery on March 23, 2021 at 11:00 am. 

Maria de los Angeles Longo Erickson, affectionally known as Nanny, age 86, of Fort Walton Beach, FL. Passed away on February 26, 2021 at 9:30am. She died peacefully in her home surrounded by her sons and her daughters-in-law which fulfilled her wish not to pass away alone in a nursing home. She was born to Alejandra Martinez and Jose Longo on January 10, 1935 in Madrid Spain. She was tragically preceded in death by her daughter Cynthia Aurora Erickson (30), her grandson Christopher Lee...

LeRoy Joseph Manor died at his home in Shalimar, Florida, on February 25, 2021. Almost precisely one-hundred years before, on February 21, 1921, he was born in another home, a farmhouse on the French Settlement Road in Beekmantown, New York, to Walter and Delia, the second of five children: Harold, Lois, Dorothy, and Lawrence; Lawrence survives him. On occasion and over time, Roy had expressed, in the self-effacing way that perpetually had the undercurrent of a subtle but effervescent humor...

Betty Beal, age 88, passed away on February 23, 2021. Your prayers and condolences are appreciated and comforting to her family.