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Heavy rainfall and hurricane-force winds hit Sarasota and Manatee counties Wednesday, causing damage across the region including flooding, fallen trees on a car and a house, and a Sarasota building collapse. ....
POLITES, Margie POLITES (Kossoudji), Margie D. Age 76, formerly of Centerville and Waynesville, passed away in Sarasota, FL, on Saturday, April 3, 2021, due to complications from Alzheimer s disease. Margie was born on August 1, 1944, in Dayton, Ohio, to Demetrius Kossoudji and Athena Tepelides. She was a graduate of Colonel White High School in 1962. Her outstanding organizational skills and friendly disposition led her to spend much of her professional life in accounting roles for her Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Gem City Lumber, Moyer Mortgage, and General Motors before deciding to stay at home to raise two sons. She was co-owner of South Dayton Wallpaper Plus where she and partner Darla Stenglein decorated hundreds of homes and the Bachelor Officer Quarters at WPAFB during the 1980s. They were instructed to put up pink and burgundy wallpaper in the B.O.Q. because it had a calming effect . She took pride in her spectacular garden and was a member ....