Eleanor \u201cEl\u201d Gustafson, age 85, Inverness, FL passed away February 12, 2025 in Citrus Memorial Hospital. She was born in Chicago, IL near Wrigley Field, on Feb 11, 1940 to the late Arvid and Grace (Carlson) Skoglund. She was a \u201cdie hard Swede\u201d and was very proud of her Swedish heritage as reflected by her home d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After moving to Florida in the early 70s, she was a waitress at the coffee shop in downtown Inverness for many years. She later began a sales career at Bealls Outlet which kept her busy for the next 20 years until retirement. She loved to stay in touch with family and friends by phone and then through texting, once she finally learned that she could talk to her phone. You may not have always been able to decipher the text, but the effort was there and it made you laugh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She loved her family and had a massive collection of pictures in her living room of all of those near and dear to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is survived by her children who adored her: Grace (Donald) Cretty of Murphy, NC, Carl Gustafson, Jr and Howard R. Gustafson, both of Hernando; a stepdaughter, Brenda (Ricky) Garcia of Floral City; 1 brother, Robert Skoglund of Inverness; 5 grandchildren: Aron Gustafson, Justin Cretty, Jessica Hess, Colton Gustafson, and Caitlin Gustafson; 8 great grandchildren; and 1 \u201csoon to be\u201d great-great grandchild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was predeceased in death by her grandson, Jimmy Balogh; and daughter-in-law, Teresa Gustafson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a Celebration of Life scheduled for Tuesday, February 18th<\/sup> from 6-8 PM at the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home. The Rev. Kevin Ballard will conduct a service beginning at 7:00 PM. Burial will follow at a later date in Hills of Rest Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eleanor \u201cEl\u201d Gustafson, age 85, Inverness, FL passed away February 12, 2025 in Citrus Memorial Hospital. She was born in Chicago, IL near Wrigley Field, on Feb 11, 1940 to the late Arvid and Grace (Carlson) Skoglund. She was a \u201cdie hard Swede\u201d and was very proud of her Swedish heritage as reflected by her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":109063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109064,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109062\/revisions\/109064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}