BOKEELIA, Fla. — For nearly 30 years, Capt’n Con’s brought its famous pies and clam chowder to this end of Pine Island, but now the restaurant sits in rubble.
“It was all a blur, like, everything’s like a nightmare,” said Jenny Wray, Luretta Wilson’s daughter.
Most of the building was destroyed in the back to back punch of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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“The feelings are just like a big part of you is gone,” said Luretta Wilson, the owner of Capt’n Con’s Fish House.
Wilson started Capt’n Con’s as a single mother from Kentucky and built it into what people now call a staple of the island.
“It was our little place in the world,” Wilson said. “I loved every customer that came in here, you know, without them, we’re nothing.”
“We’re a staple of the community, but we just don’t think that’s best for us, and it’s really not best for her,” said Rachel Wilson, Luretta’s daughter.
“She would not have gave up. She would have kept on and kept on, and she needs to take care of herself,” said Wray.