{"id":110603,"date":"2026-01-08T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:54:30","slug":"78-year-old-pinellas-county-grandmother-dies-after-her-largo-townhouse-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110603\/","title":{"rendered":"78-year-old Pinellas County grandmother dies after her Largo townhouse catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally born in Croatia in 1947, Marija Sabanovic leaves behind two daughters, two sisters, a brother and multiple grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>LARGO, Fla. \u2014 A 78-year-old Pinellas County woman is being remembered as a &#8220;beloved grandmother&#8221; after she passed away weeks after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pinellascounty\/largo-fire-townhouse-neighbor-saves-woman\/67-22c3bae8-54cb-4b28-9ec9-4fcb9174e117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Largo townhouse caught fire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Largo Fire Rescue responded around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 9 to the fire on<a href=\"http:\/\/around%2011:30%20a.m.\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0South Pines Drive.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the agency said two people were transported to the hospital, one of them later identified as Marija Sabanovic.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who called 911 at the time told 10 Tampa Bay News that she ran out into the street to flag down a neighbor to alert her about the fire. The neighbor, she said, actually entered the home and pulled Sabanovic out.<\/p>\n<p>The family confirmed that Sabanovic suffered second- and third-degree burns and was sent to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossfeaster.com\/obituaries\/marija-sabanovic\/obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">obituary<\/a>, Sabanovic&#8217;s family confirmed she passed away on New Year&#8217;s Day at Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Sabanovic&#8217;s passing, her family started a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/standing-with-our-families-tragedy?attribution_id=sl:1506b061-c880-415d-81fb-9a86e8fa78f3&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1765368639&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_td&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;cp_src=m&amp;fbclid=IwRlRTSAOm3HtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe_1foYAVC0rdrH0Ygx699o7vXHXqA38pZAHE-zMXixYSBFkZMLgFZfuYNDOs_aem_2FiIXybhNIZG-z_sNj10mQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">\u00a0GoFundMe\u00a0<\/a>to help with medical bills and the cost of the townhome that was lost, which has currently raised more than $23,739.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had an unfortunate tragedy that occurred with the loss of our aunt&#8217;s home,&#8221; the GoFundMe states. &#8220;Our beloved grandmother was still in the house when it took ablaze and was thankfully pulled out by a neighbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally born in Croatia in 1947, Sabanovic leaves behind two daughters, two sisters, a brother and multiple grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marija loved and adored her grandkids, great-grandchildren and her 2 daughters,&#8221; the obituary reads. &#8220;She will be missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A memorial is being held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=27.9576134,-82.7456923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Moss Feaster Funeral Home and Cremation in Clearwater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally born in Croatia in 1947, Marija Sabanovic leaves behind two daughters, two sisters, a brother and multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-110603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}