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New Year’s Day brought the death of Carl Stephens’ only son.
Ozell Stephens Jr. suffered a stroke on Nov. 2. He was released from the hospital three weeks later and was recovering at a rehab facility. The 55-year-old still wasn’t able to walk as the new year approached, but could speak clearly. He called his mother every evening to say goodnight.
“I’d ask him how he was feeling and he’d say ‘Good,’” Carl said. “He talked about wanting to come home.”
On Jan. 1, Ozell was rushed from the rehab facility to Sarasota Memorial Hospital with a fever. Carl went to see her son at the hospital, where a doctor told her he had COVID-19, which is listed as the probable cause of his death in medical examiner records.
Allegiant Air, the airline that serves more routes than any other at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport, announced it will begin flights between SRQ and Peoria, Illinois, later this year.
Service between Sarasota-Bradenton and General Wayne A. Downing International Airport in Peoria will begin on May 27, according to a press release from Allegiant. The airline will also begin service between Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore and Punta Gorda Airport in Charlotte County on the same day.
The airline is offering introductory one-way fares as low as $59 for both flights.
Allegiant already serves Rockford, Illinois, from Sarasota-Bradenton on a seasonal basis, and other airlines at SRQ serve Chicago. Peoria is 166 miles from Chicago and sits along the Peoria Lake section of the Illinois River.
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