Havana FL Funeral Homes
$20 OFF
Heart-felt tributes to honor a dear friend or loved one who has passed away
104 East 10th Avenue
Havana, FL 32333
(850) 539-7733
6972 Fl Ga Highway
Havana, FL 32333
(850) 539-4300
Havana FL Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, January 23, 2017Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy, said he admired Mr. Stork's leadership qualities. Fox said Mr. Stork was instrumental in shaping the aquarium's partnership with the National Aquarium in Havana to conduct coral reef research."It is unfortunate that Tampa does not have more leaders like Thom Stork," Fox said. "Under his leadership, a memorandum of understanding and cooperation between the Havana National Aquarium and the Florida Aquarium took place. That was not an easy thing to do."Scott Rose, the chief operating officer of the Florida Aquarium, will take over as interim CEO.Times senior news researcher Caryn Baird and staff writer Paul Guzzo and contributed to this report.
Monday, December 12, 2016Jose Daes, Tecnoglass’ chief executive officer. “Everything Tecnoglass is today we owe to his teachings. Miami’s skyline has his mark imprinted.”Casares was born on Sept. 22, 1934, in Havana, and moved to Miami with his family in the early-1950s. A Miami Jackson Senior High School student, Casares earned an engineering scholarship to the University of Miami but as a teenager he opted to work a menial labor job with Miami’s Crossly Window, a company that pioneered then-new products like insulated glass and exotic paint finishes. He would leave the company as president of its Miami division. In the late-1970s he co-founded ThermAlum and then R.C. Aluminum.He wanted to do big skyscrapers — go big or go home. He’s like me. Such a renegade. Such a great guy. One of a kind.Ingrid Casares on her father, Raul Casares.“If you wanted to have impact windows, you had to go through my Dad,” his daughter Ingrid said. “When no one knew about high-rise windows, my father controlled that business.”A 1997 article in the Miami Herald confirmed her account. “It’s hard to find a current local project that doesn’t have custom windows from R.C. Aluminum,” the story said.Casares placed artistic renderings of coming projects where employees could see them at his manufacturing plant near the airport on Northwest 75th Avenue. “I want the workers to see what they work on. I want them to take pride in these projects,” he told the Herald in 1997. “Everything we do, everything we manufacture, we install ourselves.”In the ’90s, Casares also invested in Ingrid’s South Beach nightclubs. He held ownership in the former Bar Room and Joia restaurant. “He was a pioneer,” she said. “He believed in me.”For all of his success, family fun trumped all.“This is a man who lived life to the fullest,” said daughter Luly Casares, a Miami clinical psychologist. “On Tuesday night at 10, he would want to go to Prime 112 — because why wouldn’t you? And he taught us to enjoy every part of life — fishing and making food. He was an amazing poker and domino player. He really showed us not only to work hard but to play hard and he did that as long as he possibly could. He had a fierce vision of creating something in Miami and he really did.”Casares is also survived by his eldest daughter Nancy Vias, a partner in her father’s business, and grandchildren Daniela and Alex Vias, Nico Casares and Ellie Casares-Feinberg. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Augustine Church, 1400 Miller Rd., Coral Gables. Donations can be made to The Alzheimer’s Association, Southeast Florida Chapter.
Monday, November 28, 2016State, Alex Burns argued that what you see is what you get with the Trump camp — that is, there are often very public divisions. Meanwhile, the estimable London-based Nic Robertson reported from Havana about the important symbolism of this morning's first American Airlines flight, especially for younger Cubans.On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Mark Halperin maintained that some hard-core folks on Team Trump want Romney to apologize for campaign criticism before a job is offered. Joe Scarborough cited multiple unnamed sources in claiming Conway went "completely rogue" by attacking Romney and that Trump was furious as he still mulls the big foreign relations post.A Cuban-American journalist's impassioned post-Castro takeAchy Obejas is a wonderfully talented writer and former longtime Chicago Tribune reporter who directs the M.F.A. in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland, California. She was born on Cuba, was taken out at age 6, returned later for a few years, then went back to Chicago. She feels strange, relieved, sad. She'd been waiting so long for Castro’s death, now it's come to pass."Fidel didn’t merely contain multitudes: He took all of our destinies and redesigned them. Who would I be if Fidel’s revolution hadn’t happened and my parents hadn’t left? Who would those who remained on the island be if those of us who left had stayed by their side? Who would any of us be if Fidel hadn’t caused this rupture in our lives?""After all the headlines and the shouting, after all the calls from all the places we Cubans have been scattered, this is what haunts us." (a href="htt...
Monday, November 28, 2016Sunday to demand a democratic future for communist Cuba now that Fidel Castro is dead — beginning with a cathartic rally planned for Wednesday at the Bay of Pigs Memorial in Little Havana for “all who have been affected by this regime.”And not far from the museum honoring Bay of Pigs veterans, where about 100 people had gathered to call for the midweek rally, crowds formed for a second day in front of the Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, where they filled the sidewalks waving American and Cuban flags as passing cars honked their horns.Some carried photos of loved ones whom they said had been jailed and persecuted by Castro, but had not lived to learn of his death late Friday at age 90. Others banged pots and pans, and chanted rhythmic slogans in Spanish, demanding democratic reforms.“Cuba libre ya!” Free Cuba now!Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the death of his brother Fidel Castro — from whom he assumed power in 2008 — on Cuban state media late Friday. Cuba declared nine days of national mourning.Nearly all had stories of how Castro had changed their lives, forever.At the museum honoring the 2506 Assault Brigade, symbols abounded of the struggle — by exiles in Miami and dissidents on the island — against Castro’s r...
Havana News
Monday, January 23, 2017Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy, said he admired Mr. Stork's leadership qualities. Fox said Mr. Stork was instrumental in shaping the aquarium's partnership with the National Aquarium in Havana to conduct coral reef research."It is unfortunate that Tampa does not have more leaders like Thom Stork," Fox said. "Under his leadership, a memorandum of understanding and cooperation between the Havana National Aquarium and the Florida Aquarium took place. That was not an easy thing to do."Scott Rose, the chief operating officer of the Florida Aquarium, will take over as interim CEO.Times senior news researcher Caryn Baird and staff writer Paul Guzzo and contributed to this report.
Monday, December 12, 2016Jose Daes, Tecnoglass’ chief executive officer. “Everything Tecnoglass is today we owe to his teachings. Miami’s skyline has his mark imprinted.”Casares was born on Sept. 22, 1934, in Havana, and moved to Miami with his family in the early-1950s. A Miami Jackson Senior High School student, Casares earned an engineering scholarship to the University of Miami but as a teenager he opted to work a menial labor job with Miami’s Crossly Window, a company that pioneered then-new products like insulated glass and exotic paint finishes. He would leave the company as president of its Miami division. In the late-1970s he co-founded ThermAlum and then R.C. Aluminum.He wanted to do big skyscrapers — go big or go home. He’s like me. Such a renegade. Such a great guy. One of a kind.Ingrid Casares on her father, Raul Casares.“If you wanted to have impact windows, you had to go through my Dad,” his daughter Ingrid said. “When no one knew about high-rise windows, my father controlled that business.”A 1997 article in the Miami Herald confirmed her account. “It’s hard to find a current local project that doesn’t have custom windows from R.C. Aluminum,” the story said.Casares placed artistic renderings of coming projects where employees could see them at his manufacturing plant near the airport on Northwest 75th Avenue. “I want the workers to see what they work on. I want them to take pride in these projects,” he told the Herald in 1997. “Everything we do, everything we manufacture, we install ourselves.”In the ’90s, Casares also invested in Ingrid’s South Beach nightclubs. He held ownership in the former Bar Room and Joia restaurant. “He was a pioneer,” she said. “He believed in me.”For all of his success, family fun trumped all.“This is a man who lived life to the fullest,” said daughter Luly Casares, a Miami clinical psychologist. “On Tuesday night at 10, he would want to go to Prime 112 — because why wouldn’t you? And he taught us to enjoy every part of life — fishing and making food. He was an amazing poker and domino player. He really showed us not only to work hard but to play hard and he did that as long as he possibly could. He had a fierce vision of creating something in Miami and he really did.”Casares is also survived by his eldest daughter Nancy Vias, a partner in her father’s business, and grandchildren Daniela and Alex Vias, Nico Casares and Ellie Casares-Feinberg. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Augustine Church, 1400 Miller Rd., Coral Gables. Donations can be made to The Alzheimer’s Association, Southeast Florida Chapter.
Monday, November 28, 2016State, Alex Burns argued that what you see is what you get with the Trump camp — that is, there are often very public divisions. Meanwhile, the estimable London-based Nic Robertson reported from Havana about the important symbolism of this morning's first American Airlines flight, especially for younger Cubans.On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Mark Halperin maintained that some hard-core folks on Team Trump want Romney to apologize for campaign criticism before a job is offered. Joe Scarborough cited multiple unnamed sources in claiming Conway went "completely rogue" by attacking Romney and that Trump was furious as he still mulls the big foreign relations post.A Cuban-American journalist's impassioned post-Castro takeAchy Obejas is a wonderfully talented writer and former longtime Chicago Tribune reporter who directs the M.F.A. in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland, California. She was born on Cuba, was taken out at age 6, returned later for a few years, then went back to Chicago. She feels strange, relieved, sad. She'd been waiting so long for Castro’s death, now it's come to pass."Fidel didn’t merely contain multitudes: He took all of our destinies and redesigned them. Who would I be if Fidel’s revolution hadn’t happened and my parents hadn’t left? Who would those who remained on the island be if those of us who left had stayed by their side? Who would any of us be if Fidel hadn’t caused this rupture in our lives?""After all the headlines and the shouting, after all the calls from all the places we Cubans have been scattered, this is what haunts us." (a href="htt...
Monday, November 28, 2016Sunday to demand a democratic future for communist Cuba now that Fidel Castro is dead — beginning with a cathartic rally planned for Wednesday at the Bay of Pigs Memorial in Little Havana for “all who have been affected by this regime.”And not far from the museum honoring Bay of Pigs veterans, where about 100 people had gathered to call for the midweek rally, crowds formed for a second day in front of the Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, where they filled the sidewalks waving American and Cuban flags as passing cars honked their horns.Some carried photos of loved ones whom they said had been jailed and persecuted by Castro, but had not lived to learn of his death late Friday at age 90. Others banged pots and pans, and chanted rhythmic slogans in Spanish, demanding democratic reforms.“Cuba libre ya!” Free Cuba now!Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the death of his brother Fidel Castro — from whom he assumed power in 2008 — on Cuban state media late Friday. Cuba declared nine days of national mourning.Nearly all had stories of how Castro had changed their lives, forever.At the museum honoring the 2506 Assault Brigade, symbols abounded of the struggle — by exiles in Miami and dissidents on the island — against Castro’s r...
