County commissioner, business advocate, dies at 67

Larry Kiker was a golf guy in a college football world. His buddies, one a Notre Dame fan, the other Michigan, both gave Kiker flags of their school, hoping he would place it, in allegiance, on his driveway on fall Saturdays.

Ever the politician, Kiker took a pass. “He probably just threw them in a box in the garage,” says Alan Mandel, the Michigan man and Kiker’s friend and onetime fellow Fort Myers Beach Town Councilman. “Golf was really his sport.”