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June 2019
The News
Family Connections to Sun City Center
By Paula Lickfeldt Marian Sorby’s aunt’s motherin-law was the first in the family to come to SCC. She bought a home on Council Drive shortly after the community was opened. After she passed away, her son inherited the home. He was married to Mariam’s mother’s sister. Mariam’s mother, Irene Riha, started coming to SCC to visit her sister in the winters. She fell in love with SCC. She would tell her friends that she believed that living in SCC was like living in heaven. Irene played Duplicate Bridge seven days a week. She earned Life Master status. Irene also loved to do ceramics. In 1989, Irene’s bridge partner called to tell her that the house right across the street from where she lived had just gone up for sale. The next day she called back to say that the house had already been sold. Irene laughed and told her bridge partner that she had been the one to buy the house. She bought her home without even seeing it. Mariam graduated from the University of Michigan. She spent 55 years as a nurse. She was a school nurse in Hastings, MI for eighteen years. When she was not working, she liked to sew and play music. She came to Florida to visit with her mother every chance that she got. Her brother Mark lives in the Upper
L to R: Pat Passamani , Mark Melchiori and Mariam Sorby.
Peninsula of Michigan. He is an outdoor guy. He loved to play golf, and he is an avid hunter and fisherman. Mark worked for the Michigan State government highway department for 24 years and MIOSHA for 10 years. He and Pat would come to SCC to visit with his sister. Mariam lives in the home her mother bought in 1989. She has three daughters and two of them have already bought homes in SCC. Cheryl Sorby and Norman Loney are both engineers and are professors at Cincinnati University. Even though they are still working, they come to SCC as much as they can. Claire and Paul Coulston are both retired Michigan State Troopers and they still return to MI in the summer but are planning on a move to SCC full time in the near future. Brother Mark Melchiori and Pat Passamani also moved to SCC. They rented a home here until the day that Pat went for a walk. She walked past a home that she fell in love
with. Pat says that she loved the home the minute that she saw it. Mark and Pat bought the home. They are all snow birds and spend the summer in Michigan. Mariam says that she is getting closer and closer to living in SCC all of the time. Mariam is very active at the Redeemer Lutheran Church and she tries to walk in the heated pool every day. Mark and Pat play as much golf as they can. They sponsor a “Yoopers and Friends” golf tournament
every year. This past year was their 13th year, and 140 golfers participated in the tournament. Between the three of them they believe they have talked about 50 people into moving to SCC. Mark tells them, “Go to visit any place in Florida that you want. Then spend two days in Sun City Center, and you will want to stay.” Tell us about your family connection to SCC. We would love to hear the story. Call Paula 813-633-6739.
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