ST. PETERSBURG - Jamie Lee Henry Harnage, a musician and member of a pioneer family that put its mark on the city, has died at 89.
Mrs. Harnage died Thursday (Feb. 26, 2004) at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach.
Born in St. Petersburg, she was the daughter of Lee Henry, who did some of the original plantings at Sunken Gardens, and the niece of W.C. Henry, a general contractor who paved part of Central Avenue.
W.C. Henry, a member of the 1901 Town Council, also built the first building in St. Petersburg designed to be a school. The names of the brothers are among those of the 600 early settlers listed on bronze plaques on the Pioneer Park obelisk.
Mrs. Harnage was a longtime pianist at First United Methodist Church.
She taught music at Shorecrest Outdoor School, Wilkinson's St. Petersburg School of Music and St. Petersburg High School, her family said.
In the late 1930s she performed with a dance band at the Coliseum Ballroom and played solos on WFLA and WSUN radio.
- Information from Times files was used in this obituary.
