Portrait of Ronald Durham

Ronald Durham

Live Oak, Florida

Ronald Grover Durham, age 71, of Live Oak, FL, passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at North Florida Regional Hospital in Gainesville, FL following a sudden illness. He mov...

Portrait of Ruth Sawyer

Ruth Sawyer

Live Oak, Florida

February 10, 2026

Ruth Eleanor Sawyer aged 94 of Dowling Park Florida passed away on February 11 2026. Born on December 30 1931 in Bangor Maine to the late John Edwin and Isabelle Katon Rowe Ruth took a year of nurses training after high school. She met Sherwood Edward Sawyer while working at W.T. Grants department store in Bangor. They married in 1952. Ruth was devoted to him for 73 years. In 1963 Ruth became a pastors wife when Sherwood entered ministry fulltime. She supported his work as they served faithfully in Wytopitlock Cherryfield and Ft. Fairfield Maine as well as Scranton Moreland and Greenfield Pennsylvania. Ruth held many parttime jobs often in food service while being involved in each church as the pastors wife. She loved to sing in the choir to study the Bible and to visit people with Sherwood. Ruth bought land in Dowling Park. They retired there in 1996.…

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