A tragic accident claimed the life of Diana Boone on Monday night in Fort Myers. The incident left the community in shock and mourning.<\/p>\n
Peggy Rossen, a neighbor, described the scene with numerous police cars present.<\/p>\n
“Just cop cars everywhere, cop cars down the street, cop cars this way,” said Rossen.<\/p>\n
Rossen recounted witnessing the accident that led to Boone’s death.<\/p>\n
“It was a quiet accident. She came in and drove down there and drove around the park and came back and was probably attempting a U-turn, and her wheels slipped over the seawall and she flipped her car over,” said Rossen.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday afternoon, Boone’s family gathered at the seawall to remember her. Boone was a beloved employee at Winn-Dixie.<\/p>\n
“She always was just being nice to everyone, cracking jokes, making everyone laugh, really. She really was like a light of joy in there as a cashier,” said Emily Rosario, Boone’s co-worker.<\/p>\n
Rosario expressed the deep sense of loss felt by Boone’s colleagues.<\/p>\n
“I’m gonna miss her a lot. We were just with her the other day at work, and it was really sad knowing that she’s gone now. I won’t be able to see her again,” said Rosario.<\/p>\n
Boone’s impact extended beyond her workplace.<\/p>\n
“It’s just it catches you out of the blue, and you don’t know how to react or what to think about it,” said Paul McMurrain, manager at Uptown Bingo.<\/p>\n
Boone was a regular at Uptown Bingo, often visiting right after work.<\/p>\n
“She’d come in, like, straight from Winn-Dixie, she’d be, you know, in her work uniform, and get done with work and come straight to bingo,” McMurrain said.<\/p>\n
“She was great. She was friendly. Always had a smile on her face,” McMurrain added.<\/p>\n
The community continues to grieve the loss of Diana Boone, a cherished member known for her warmth and kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tragic accident claimed the life of Diana Boone on Monday night in Fort Myers. The incident left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,16399,47074],"class_list":["post-86204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers-police-department","tag-george-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86204","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=86204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}