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Maria Floyd
Maria Floyd of Southampton and Palm Beach, Florida, died on September 7 after a hard-fought battle with bladder cancer. She was 68.
Born on February 4, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Anthony and Margaret Fraietta, she is survived by her husband of 39 years, Hall of Fame golfer Raymond Floyd.
Ms. Floyd was an astute businesswoman who owned and ran Bauder Fashion College in Miami and Atlanta since the early 1970s. She served on the board of Miami Country Day School and was a council member at Indian Creek Village. She was an assiduous fundraiser for Palm Beach’s Par Three Golf Club and one of the visionaries responsible for the creation and design of Old Palm Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens
She will be remembered mostly as the dynamic woman she was, the one whose eyes always sparkled with liveliness and who valued family above all else. She loved nothing more than being a wife and a mother and her five granddaughters were her most recent pride and joy, survivors said.
Ms. Floyd is credited as being the driving force behind her husband’s impressive golf career, the reliable and trustworthy friend everyone could always turn to, and the unforgettable woman whose spirit and zest for life were an inspiration to all who were lucky to know her.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons, Raymond Floyd Jr. and his wife Cheryl, and Robert Floyd; a daughter, Christina Floyd and husband Emmanuel Di Donna; and five grandchildren, Josephine, Victoria, Annabelle, Ella and Luna Maria
Memorial donations may be made to Pin Down Bladder Cancer, 410 Park Avenue, Suite 910, New York, NY 10022 (reference Maria Floyd) or at www.active.com/donate/pdbc2012/Floyddidonna.
on Sep 10, 2012