Local Restaurant King, Fred Deen, Passes Away

By: Joe Moore - Email

Updated: Fri 1:45 PM, Mar 19, 2010

Family and friends are remembering a man who spent most of his adult life feeding the visitors and residents of Bay County. Fred Deen died Wednesday after battling a long illness. He was 78 years old.

Deen and his family moved from St. Petersburg to Panama City in 1967, when he took over a restaurant at 15th and Lisenby Avenue in the Panama Plaza Shopping Center.

That's when you could get a whole Florida lobster for 2-bucks.

In 1971, Deen opened what was probably his most famous local restaurant, the Fisherman's Wharf on Beck Avenue in St. Andrew.

Deen is survived by 3-sons, 2-brothers, 3-sisters and 7-grandchildren.

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