Still, Homer E., Jr., 85, of St. Pete Beach, died Friday, December 1st, 2006 at Largo Medical Center. He was born in Plano, KY and came here in 1973 from Tallahassee where he had been active in the Unitarian Church for many years and served as President. He also served as President of the Jacksonville Church and President of the Florida Council of Liberal Churches. He was active in the LeMoyne Art Foundation in Tallahassee serving as President, Treasurer, and Board member. Locally, he was the owner of a one man business on the Gulf beaches where he rented sailboats, peddle boats, canoes, kayaks, one man motor boats, and lounges. He also sold suntan lotion there and gave sailing lessons. He said his most significant lifetime occupational accomplishment was teaching thousands of people to sail with a one hour lesson. He was a 1942 graduate of the University of Florida where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. During WW II he served in the Army Quartermaster Corps as an employment officer at the Schenectady Depot. He later served in the Army Air Corps as a B-24 bomber pilot in the 8th Air Force, 44th bomb group, 506th bomb squad flying out of England. He was shot down over Germany and was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I, Barth then known as Pomerania. After the war, he returned to the University of Florida where he taught Accounting. He also worked for a CPA firm in Jacksonville and did graduate work at UCLA and Berkeley. He returned to Florida in 1952 where he performed municipal audits and was an Auditor with the State Auditor. He became a Florida CPA in 1953. He served as a staff member for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, was a Budget Examiner with the Florida Budget Director, and he served on the Board of Regents staff. He was the Associate Director of a University of Michigan nationwide research project on university finance. He was Florida?s first State Planning Director, the only Democrat appointed by then Governor Claude Kirk, to head an agency. He served on the Board of Directors of the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative as Vice President and then President. He was an active member and past Commander of the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of American Ex-Prisoners of War; a member of VFW Post #4256, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Inquiry. He is survived by his wife of 22 years, Ann; 3 sons, James E. Still of Tallahassee, Wayne McDaniel Becker of Chiefland, FL, and David Todd of Crawfordville, FL; 1 daughter, Jamie Cox of Tallahassee; 1 sister, Evelyn Abercrombie of Jacksonville; 5 grandchildren and 1 great grandson. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-Tyrone Chapel.