Known as “the mayor” of Fort Myers Beach. Mitch Pacyna is remembered as a devoted Chicago fan. He died last week while trying to flee his Florida home during Hurricane Ian.
Members of Florida Task Force 2 urban search and rescue check homes and piles of debris one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian, on Estero Island in Fort Myers Beach, Florida Oct. 5, 2022. Mitch Pacyna, 74, a former Franklin Park resident, died last week while trying to flee his Florida home on Estero Island.
“It still seems unreal. But they thankfully found his remains ,” Schuline told the Tribune over the phone Thursday. “So now it’s just going through the process of finding out, like the next steps and such of how to claim those and what to do next. But just hanging in there and taking it day by day.” Kathy James, 74, who lives in Fort Myers, said Pacyna was known as “the mayor” of Fort Myers Beach because of his welcoming nature, always greeting people with an ear-to-ear grin. But he was also someone who doesn’t panic or scare easily, she said. So when James and her daughter Lisa Nagy, 56, saw his last post, they realized just how bad the devastation truly was.“And I’m sure we’ve lost maybe more but we just don’t know yet,” Nagy said.
Mitch Pacyna is remembered for his love of Chicago. He died while trying to flee his Florida home where he’d been riding out Hurricane Ian. Nagy and James met Pacyna after they moved to Fort Myers Beach in 2012, where they lived less than a mile from Pacyna. He was often taking pictures with an old-fashioned camera to document moments with friends, Nagy said.Many friends took to Facebook this week, sharing photos with Pacyna. “Will miss his forever smile & his twinkling blue eyes,” one friend wrote.“It was just like putting on your favorite pair of jeans, you know, you just felt home,” she said.
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