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Bob D’Angio, coach and teacher to hundreds at numerous area schools, died Monday in Vero Beach just a few weeks shy of his 95th birthday.D’Angio was best known as the coach of three state runner-up teams at Forest Hill High School in the 1960’s. Twice his Falcons lost the championship game in extra innings, to Cantonment Tate in 1962 and to North Miami in 1964.The last title-game loss, 3-0 to Pensacola Escambia in 1965, was D’Angio’s final game as coach. He retired immediately afterwards, having gone 74-7 over a four-year stretch.Long-time residents will also remember Bob, born in Brooklyn, as a favorite teacher at Conniston Junior High and St. Anne’s School. He was an assistant on the legendary 1952 Conniston football team of head coach Hank Martin. That group finished undefeated, untied and unscored-upon, with a 40-0 postseason win over a group of all-stars from other county junior high schools.An educator long after his coaching career ended, D’Angio was the first provost of Palm Beach State College’s north campus when it opened in Palm Beach Gardens in 1982.A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Palms West Funeral Home in Royal Palm Beach. Hoping the word gets out because those who knew West Palm Beach 50 years ago, a small town blessed by a legacy of first-class coaches in every sport, will surely want to be there.[The Lane Kiffin revival tent is coming to FAU][Might just as well let ESPN manage the college football playoff selection][A fun look back at Dolphins’ first training camp in 1966]...

Eldest son Michael Mandich starts to tell the story and sets the scene in the mid-1970s.“She was a stunningly beautiful woman. She was asked to be Miss Vermont during her college years. She came to Miami at the urging of a friend and went to an Orange Bowl game. This mutual friend knew a couple Dolphins players and my dad made a funny pass at her. No way you could publish it, but she denied him and that piqued his interest even more.”Seven months after Jim “Mad Dog” Mandich’s death from bile duct cancer in April 2011, Bonnie Mandich completed that story as the Dolphins posthumously honored him with its 22nd induction into the team’s Honor Roll.“His pickup line to me was, ‘You must be waiting for me,’ ” she told the Miami Herald in 2011. “I was like, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Pirouette for me. I’ve seen girls that look really good from the waist up, but they’ve got big behinds.’“I said, ‘No!’ So he starts walking around me, and I thought either this guy is crazy or he’s really fun. We went out on our first date and we’ve been together ever since.”The couple wed in August 1981. Mandich supported her husband’s efforts on and off the field. “She would fight like tooth and nail if anyone said anything about us or her husband,” son Michael said.Bonnie Mandich died in her sleep at her Miami Lakes home of natural causes on July 11 at 61, her son said.“I’ve known Bonnie as long as Jim and that goes way back to the 1970s and . . . she truly died with a broken heart. They were so involved,” said former safety Dick Anderson, Mad Dog’s teammate during the undefeated season and a fellow Honor Roll member.“She was as true a partner in the businesses and activities he was involved in as anyone I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t think you could find a more dedicated partner than Bonnie was to Jim,” said Anderson.When Mad Dog left the field he became a football announcer on WQAM (560-AM) and WIOD (610-AM). His boisterous “Awwwright Miami” underlined big Dolphin plays. He also opened his restaurant, Ziggie and Mad Dog’s in Islamorada, and ...

He sold them in Miami as a boy and used earnings from that job to pay his way through college after serving in the Navy.“He was a hustler; he really worked hard,” said his daughter, Melinda Fry. “He worked for a circulation department always, since he was 7, 8 years old.”Mr. Fry practiced law for a time after earning his degree from the University of Miami.“But it really wasn't his heart,” she said. “The newspapers were his heart. To the day he died, he read the paper front to back.”Charles E. Fry, who directed the Tribune-Review circulation department for 16 years, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Thursday, July 7, 2016, in his native Florida. He was 88.Mr. Fry worked in circulation departments at newspapers in Miami, Tennessee and New York before being hired at the Tribune-Review in April 1979. He was well-respected by co-workers at the Greensburg newspaper and maintained many of those friendships after he retired in September 1995 and moved back to Florida.“He had a great sense of humor and, at the same time, was respected by the people who worked for him,” said Art McMullen, retired general manager of the Tribune-Review.Golf was Mr. Fry's passion, and he would hit area courses several times a week, according to his golf buddies.“Charlie was an outgoing guy, he was well-liked in work and in the community,” said Dick Webb, retired director of operations in the Tribune-Review production department. “He worked as hard on golf as he did at work.”And he was equally terrific at both, said George Beidler, retired editor of the paper.“He was a straight shooter and a guy of integrity and a guy of faith,” Beidler said. “When he told you something, you could believe what he said.”Mr. Fry's education and work ethic came into play to benefit the newspaper business, Melinda Fry said.“He believed it was important; that was the way you kept up on current events,” she said. “It was part of the fabric of American life — a newspaper in every home.”Mr. Fry is survived by his wife of nearly 65 years, Melanie; six children, ...