Mick Anthony

On March 25, 2025, at the age of 97, Malcolm Charles Anthony, Sr., of Winter Haven, Florida, went home to be with the Lord. "Mick" was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 21, 1927, to Sidney Anderson Anthony, Sr., and Florence K. Anthony (née Hart).
At the age of 10, Mick and his siblings tragically lost their parents in a car accident. He was cared for by an aunt and uncle in Michigan and later lived with an aunt and uncle in North Carolina. At the age of 13, Mick got a job driving a truck and delivering ice blocks for old-fashioned iceboxes (pre-refrigerators).
At the age of 17, Mick joined the United States Navy, after several failed attempts at enrolling when he was 16. The world was in the throes of war, and he wanted to do his part for his country. Two months before sailing out, in the final years of World War II, Mick married "girl next door" Beatrice Virginia Absher. He returned home to North Carolina from the war, after sailing the Pacific, to his wife and new baby boy Malcolm Charles Anthony, Jr. Their second son Larry Anderson Anthony was born a few years later.
Mick eventually returned to Detroit and went to work for the railroad as a switchman. He retired from the railroad after about 20 years. He then moved to Florida, where he spent the next 20 years as a school bus mechanic for Landmark Christian School in Haines City. He was very involved in the lives of his grandkids and great-grandkids.
Mick had a lifelong passion for sports, and participated in boxing, diving and tumbling in school, played hockey, coached basketball and baseball when his kids and grandkids were young. He took on part-time work as a referee and umpire for various high school and college sports. He was an avid fisherman and enjoyed taking his boat out on the lake. He was a born-again Christian, most recently a member of Faith Baptist Church of Winter Haven, and a faithful church attendee up until the last few months of his life.
Mick was preceded in death by his parents, Sidney Anderson Anthony, Sr. and Florence K. Anthony (née Hart); his four siblings, Lilian Almira Hensen Lazaruk (née Anthony), Sidney Anderson Anthony, Jr., Virginia May Anthony, and Belmon L. "Okie" Anthony; his younger son, Larry Anderson Anthony, I; his wife of 59 years, Beatrice Virginia Anthony (née Absher); and his second wife of 19 years, Joyce Etta Anthony (née Kuehnemann).
Surviving Mick are his older son Malcolm Charles Anthony, Jr.; his grandchildren Sherrie Marie McColley (née Anthony),
Christy Lynette Daniel (née Anthony), Brett Allen Anthony, Aaron Anderson Anthony, Sr., Rodney Anderson Anthony, Roger Allen Anthony, Sr., Michael Lee Anthony, and Larry Anderson Anthony, II; his great-grandchildren Rodney Eric Anthony, Joshua Caleb Anthony, Rebecca Erin Anthony, Roger Allen Anthony, Jr., Alyssa Renee Hedke (née Anthony), Jacob Michael Ernest Anthony, Jeremy Christopher Anthony, Kayleigh Ann Rose Anthony, Madison May Anthony, Bryce Anderson Anthony, Victoria Noelle McLean (née McColley), Luke Anthony McColley, Margaret "Maggie" Beatrice McColley, Reagan Charles McColley, Kelley Renee Gray (née Daniel), Amanda Daniel Mogilevsky (née Daniel), Matthew Aaron Anthony, Grant Noble Anthony, Aaron "Trey" Anderson Anthony, Jr., Andrew "Drew" Alexander Anthony, and Alijah "Tripp" Abraham Anthony; and great-great grandchildren Hendrick Miles Gray, Millie Tyler Gray, Riley Brooke Mogilevsky, Gabriel John Anthony, Adeline Faith Anthony, Zephyr Cloud Anthony, Luna Mae Hedke, and Charles Joseph Hedke.
Visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. followed by a memorial service at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 31, 2025, at Oak Ridge Funeral Care in Winter Haven, Florida. Reverend Dave Totman will be officiating. There will be no graveside service.