Halie Lynn Guelfi's Obituary
Halle Lynn Guelfi
October 23, 1992-December 7, 2014
On the evening of Friday December 5, Halie was a passenger on a motorcycle that was involved in an accident in Gainesville, Florida. She passed peacefully on Sunday December 7 at Shands Hospital in Gainesville.
Halie was born in Burlington, Kentucky, the first child of two children born to Ron & Sharon Guelfi. Halie was proud of the fact that she made the choice to have "ORGAN DONOR" on her driver's license. Life did not end at death for Halie. She lives on!
Halie graduated from Naples High School in 2011 magna cum laude and went on to The University of Florida in Gainesville Florida where she was an Ambassador for The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, worked as a research assistant in the Department of Rheumatology, she was a Gator Pre-Medical Section Editor, member of the University of Florida Honors College, volunteer at the Gators For Haven Hospice. She was set to graduate this spring with two BA degrees in Biology and Psycology and go on to medical school in the fall of 2015.
She is proceeded in death by her mother Sharon (Couch) Guelfi of Burlington, Kentucky and her Grandparents Robert Guelfi of Naples, Florida and Raleigh Couch of Burlington, Kentucky. She is survived by her father Ron Guelfi and brother Joseph Guelfi of Naples, grandparents Fran Guelfi of Naples and Bertha (Mamaw) Couch of Burlington, aunts and uncles Rob & Julie Guelfi, Rick & Kim Guelfi, Robin (Guelfi) Ewell, Russell Guelfi, all of Naples and Jim & Lisa Couch, Larry & Cindy Couch, Reilgh Couch Jr., Dan & Dawn (Couch) Delaney all of Burlington and many, many cousins in both Naples and Burlington.
Memorial services will be held at New Hope Ministries 7675 Davis Blvd in Naples on Saturday December 20 at 2:30pm there will be a service at 3:30 , friends and classmates of Halie and all others are invited to join us following the service for sunset at the pier to celebrate the life of Halie.
Halie’s brother Joseph and all of Halie’s closes friends ask that you help with this celebration of life. We will watch the sunset at the pier (one of Halie’s favorite things to do), the sunset will be at about 5;40 pm ,we will then allow for the” sunset crowd” to exit, after the mass exit, we ask for help as we offer yellow daisy’s over the pier railings. Then at 6pm, weather and winds permitting, we are going to release a beautiful shooting star sky lantern, a sight your really want to see!
The family asks that people monitor Halie's Memorial Page @http://vvww.forevermissed.com/halie-lynn-guelfi or facebook "Halle Guelfi for the full details, times and locations to be posted Tuesday December 16th.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the "Halle Guelfi Memorial Scholarship fund" with checks made payable to The Community Foundation of Collier County, 2400 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 300, Naples, Florida. 34103 @ cfcollier.orq
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