ALLIGATOR LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER WHO RODE OUT HURRICANE DONNA GETS SPECIAL BURIAL AT SEA

ALLIGATOR LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER WHO RODE OUT HURRICANE DONNA GETS SPECIAL BURIAL AT SEA

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel departed from Station Islamorada on the afternoon of June 20. There were no emergencies or rescues; rather, a special burial was about to take place at sea near Alligator Reef Lighthouse for Jeffrey Steven Kime.  A U.S. Coast Guard member from 1959 to 1965, the Ohio-born Kime spent four of those months manning the towering, majestic lighthouse roughly 4 nautical miles off Islamorada with two other keepers.  Kime passed …