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Notable deaths mark the yearBy Times staff writer© St. Petersburg Times published December 30, 2002 Here's a list of some prominent people Citrus County lost during 2002: -- Sharon Bomse, a popular teacher at the Renaissance Center and assistant girls basketball coach at Citrus High School, died Sept. 1. She was 43. -- Margaret Brannen, a lifelong Citrus resident and matriarch of the county's most prominent business family, Brannen Banks, died Jan. 26. She was 95. -- Bertram J. "Bert" Miller, a community activist who worked with the school system, the Beverly Hills community and Congregation Beth Shalom, died July 17. He was 87. -- Bob Moreland, a former St. Petersburg Times photographer and well-known Homosassa resident, died March 19. He was 76. -- Dessie Smith Prescott, who was immortalized in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel Cross Creek and once owned the Withlacoochee River Lodge in Inglis, where she guided hunting and fishing parties for many years, died April 19. She was 95. -- Ted Williams, the former Boston Red Sox star and pitchman for the Citrus Hills residential development, died July 5. He was 83.
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