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- Herald Tribune
December 9, 2004
Gayle D. Dean, 65, Punta Gorda, died Dec. 7, 2004. She was born Nov. 16, 1939, in Jasper, Ala., and moved to the Charlotte County area in 1981 from Sarasota.
She did her undergraduate work at Mississippi State College for Women and the University of Northern Alabama. She received her M.A. degree from the University of Northern Colorado and taught in Alabama, Maine and Germany before moving to Florida. She was an educator and taught high school chemistry and biology in Alabama, Portland, Maine, Germany and Manatee County before moving into administration in 1974, taking an administrative position at Southeast High School in Bradenton and at Lincoln Middle School in Palmetto.
She retired in 1999 after serving 18 years as principal of Sallie Jones Elementary School in Punta Gorda. In August of this year, she was elected to the Charlotte County School Board. She was a member of the Florida School Administrators Association. She was a former member of the Punta Gorda Kiwanis Club and was the club's first female member.
Survivors include her husband, James L.; daughters Katherine E. Doughty of Naples and Patricia Gayle Doughty of Bradenton; a stepson, William Dean of Bradenton; and two grandchildren.
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