Mary Baker Eddy was known as a caring teacher with a sharp eye and an intolerance for foolishness at Winter Garden and Dillard Street elementary schools.
Bob Thompson had several careers in his lifetime and was successful at each of them. He was a high school business and accounting teacher, lay minister, drive-in church pastor and florist and made deep and lasting friendships along the way.
Robert Foy Thompson, a Winter Garden native, died Nov. 17, 2020, at age 85, leaving behind a wife of 53 years and multiple generations of students and teachers who always remembered his kindness, trustworthiness and passion for business.
Thompson had graduated from Florida Southern College with a degree in business and had two years of teaching under his belt when he took a position with Orange County Public Schools and taught English, keyboarding, accounting and other businesses classes at Lakeview High School, in Winter Garden.