Notable South Florida Deaths In 2015

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Christine DiMattei

Published December 22, 2015 at 7:17 PM EST

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Kelly Mitchell, a former news anchor for WLRN, WSVN-7, WPLG-Local 10, with Oscar, one of her two beloved Corgis.

Carl Juste, The Miami Herald

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Music producer Larry Rosen founded the Jazz Roots series at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which later aired on WLRN";

Gary James, Arsht Center

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Naomi Wilzig blows out the candles at her 75th birthday celebration at her World Erotic Art Museum on Miami Beach.

Manny Hernandez for The Miami Herald

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Romel Joseph, a blind violinist who survived the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti after spending 18 hours pinned under concrete. He died October, 2015 at 56

Alexia Fodere for The Miami Herald

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Rose McDaniel, greeter at Miami Beach's Joe's Stone Crab for some 60 years.

The Miami Herald

South Florida certainly doesn't lack for interesting personalities.

But the year 2015 saw the loss of several South Floridians who give our region its unique style. Click through the photos above to see some of them, including our former afternoon anchor Kelley Mitchell.

In the audio clip above, WLRN's Christine DiMattei and Miami Herald Feature Writer Howard Cohen pay tribute to a few. Take a listen, and read the Miami Herald's full story here.