ZOE BROMBERG

BROMBERG Zoe Proferis Bromberg died on July 12, 2011, in a tragic accident while visiting her friend Robert McLendon in Spain. She was preceded in death by her grandfather Leon Chris Vlahos. Zoe is survived by her parents Charles Clayton Bromberg and Christy Vlahos Bromberg; her brother Charles Clayton Bromberg, Jr. (Robin); her grandparents Frank Hardy Bromberg, Jr. (Lella), Zoe Proferis Cassimus (Marcus), and Myrna Vlahos; uncles and aunts Frank Hardy Bromberg, III, Frederick Wilkinson Bromberg (Nancy), Lella Bromberg Wilbanks (Bruce), Cleo Cassimus O'Neal (Craft), and John Marcus Cassimus; and her loving cousins Wil Bromberg, Anne Hayden Bromberg, Mallie Bromberg, Frances Bromberg, Bo Wilbanks, Alice Wilbanks, Craft O'Neal Jr., John O'Neal, Edward O'Neal, and Michael Anne Dixon. Zoe was born on July 22, 1987 in Jacksonville, Florida. While growing up in Jacksonville, she attended elementary school at Riverside Presbyterian Day School, and completed elementary school, middle school, and high school at The Bolles School. While at The Bolles School, she was a member of the volleyball team and the Greenscape Club, was a Ball Hostess at the Cummer Art Museum, an Antique Show Hostess at the Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital, as well as a Page and a Belle in the Southern Belle Ball. In 2006, Zoe began college at the University of Alabama on a Prime S. Osborn Foundation Scholarship. While at the University, she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority, Run for Rise, Friends of Hurricane Creek, a mentor and tutor at Hillcrest Middle School, and a regular contributing writer to the Crimson and White as a concert reviewer. In 2007, she was presented as a member of the Debutante Coterie at the Magnolia Ball in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2008, Zoe traveled to Australia with the International Student Volunteers/Conservation Volunteers Australia. That same year, she was presented as a member of the Debutante Coterie at the Redstone Ball in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2009, she took courses in Environmental Studies and Natural Science while studying abroad with the University's New College in Iceland. She graduated in May 2011 from the University of Alabama New College with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her graduation ceremony, which was postponed by the tragic tornado in Tuscaloosa, will take place on August 6, 2011. She planned to begin pursuing her degree in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California in August 2011. Zoe's name, which means life in Greek, was strikingly appropriate given her vivaciousness, beauty, and love for life. She loved painting, live music, bird watching, her dogs Bear, Dudley, and Dudley II, and especially all of her wonderful friends. She will be forever loved and missed. A memorial service will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida, 32210, on July 15, 2011, at 2:00 P.M., with the Rev. Jonathan B. Coffey officiating and Rev. Dr. Stephen Goyer, the Rev. Donavan Cain, the Rev. Lila B. Brown assisting. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Zoe's name may be made to the Prime S. Osborn Foundation Scholarship, University of Alabama National Alumni Association, Attention Alumni Fund, P.O. Box 861928, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486-1928, or The Bolles School, 7400 San Jose Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida 32217. Please Sign the Guestbook @ Jacksonville.com