Obituary of Anita marie Isphording

Anita Marie Isphording (nee Collins), 73, of Gulf Breeze, Florida passed away on August 22, 2020 in Pensacola, following a sudden stroke. Anita was born in Columbus, Ohio on December 25, 1946 and grew up in Pomeroy, Ohio. She was a 1964 graduate of Pomeroy High. She attended Edison Community College in Fort Myers and graduated from Florida State University with a degree in English. She then earned a Masters degree in Library Science from Emory University in Atlanta. She worked at the Fort Lauderdale Public Library and at the Villas Elementary School in Fort Myers, before becoming a newspaper librarian at the Sarasota Journal and later, the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. She also worked as a medical records transcriptionist in Sarasota and Colorado Springs and then, as a teacher in Riverside, California. Anita is survived by Bruce Isphording, her husband of 46 years; her aunt, Marilyn Harris of Melbourne, FL.; and cousins, Kenneth Collins of Pomeroy, OH, Ronald Collins of Syracuse, OH, Michael Harris of Winter Haven, FL, Heidi Branch of Pensacola, FL and Heather Greene of Melbourne, FL. Anita was a Methodist.