Lumus “Ms. Gardiner” Elomas Brown Sawyer
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Funeral service for
Mother Lumus Elomas Brown Sawyer,
affectionately called "Ms. Gardiner", 92
a resident of #50 Jackson Street, Nassau Village, & formerly of Betsy Bay, Mayaguana, will be held at Maranatha Seventh-day Adventist Church, Prince Charles Drive, on Sunday 16th February, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Officiating will be Pastor Leonardo D. Rahming, assisted by Pastor E.D. Clarke & Pastor Michael Toote. Interment follows in Western Cemetery, Nassau Street.
Fond, loving and heart felt memories will forever be cherished in the hearts of her daughters: Mrs. Barbara Kelly Seymour, Mrs. Ann Sawyer, Associate Professor, Ruth E. Gardiner (College Of The Bahamas); sons: Hartman Sawyer Sr., Anthony Sawyer Sr., Petty Officer John Gardiner Jr. (Royal Bahamas Defense Force) and fiancé Sandra Bennett, stepsons and spouse: Lester, David, Gladstone and wife Berthamae Gardiner; Grandchildren and spouses: Antoinette and husband Dr. Earl Cash Jr., Richard Kelly Jr. and wife Ronnie (Freeport, Grand Bahama), Jamie and husband Kyle Jones (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla), Juliana Seymour (Freeport, Grand Bahama), Marcus Sawyer and wife Marita, Gloria Sawyer (Eleuthera), Andrew Sawyer and wife Jennifer (Benz Oregon), Latoya Sawyer (Eleuthera), Hartman Sawyer Jr., Antoinette Sawyer., Ruthmae Sawyer, Anthony Sawyer Jr. and wife Lorvanie, Shantica and Angela Sawyer, Shawn, Godfrey, Michelle and Vanishka Sawyer, John 111, Tomiko, Johnell (Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama), Ashanti, Johnaia Gardiner, Olivia, Stephan, Leon Roker, Deon, Ramon and Maleake Gardiner, Basil Kelly Jr., Marquinn Taylor; Twenty-six great- grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; Sons-in-law: Richard Kelly Sr., Clay Seymour; 1 sister: Hettie McPhee; 1 brother: Hartman Brown; nieces: Beryl Jones, Elder Elcie Mackey, Beverly McCoy, Vanda Forbes, Evangelist Delores and Beulah Murphy, Eleanor, Genevieve, Louise, Bernadette, Dorothy, Sharon, Idamae, Verdell, Velma, Shantel, Leona, Yvonne, Virginia, Thelma, Princess, Betty, Patricia, Montrella, Florene, Lillian, Lee, Carol, Donzella, Audrey, Rovena, Nathalie, Deborah, Sophia, Joan, Sherry, Emma, Joyce and Gracie; adopted niece: Samantha Meadows; nephews: David and Simeon Murphy, Sgt.1517 Edwin McPhee, Ricardo, Emerson, Leonard, Raymond, Jeffrey, Solomon, James, Reggie, Wilson, Wellington, Livingston, John, Stanley, Sam, Craig, Freddie, Wayne and Dwayne; numerous grandnieces and grand nephews; brothers-in-law: Edwin McPhee and Frank Clarke; other relatives and friends including Herbert, Labon, Arthur, Joanna, Cynthia and the entire Brown family and descendants of Mayaguana, the Higgins, Collie, Murphy, Black, Charlton, McPhee families of Mayaguana, King, Nottage, Smith, Symonette, Roberts, Josey, Martin, Knowles, Toote, Reckley, Goodman, Bain, Collie, Missick and Colebrook families, Marvin and Tommy Pinder and family, Deacon Cardo Dean, the Sawyer family of Savannah Sound, Community of Gregory Town, Basil Kelly Sr. and family, Marvin Taylor Sr. and family, Darmeeko and Eunice “Pinky” Isaacs and family, Pa, Dot, Denny, Kieth, Meta, Vernon and Zina Butler and family, Janet Newbold and family, Portia Ellis and family, Rosie, Dulcie and Nakessa- Beneby and family, Bernie Miller and family, the Dean family, the Boyce family of Trinidad and Tobago, Chef Sterling Thompson and Anthony Richardson, family of the late Mrs. Clara, Pinky, Arnold, Joey,Glen, Judith, Joyann, Milton, Nolan, Don,Vandaline Forbes and family, Eleanor Williams and family, Icely Smith, Paula Robinson, Renee Lockhart, Sheryl Curry and friends of Fingertips Beauty Salon, personal hairdresser Bloss, former caregivers Desma Clarke and Eurahlee Morgan and caregiver Sandra Bennett, Community Nurses of the Department of Health, family of the late Nurse Ruth and brother John Gardiner of Cupids Cay, Governers Harbour and Tarpum Bay Eleuthera, former and current constituency representatives of Holy Cross including Mr. Charles Carter and Mr. Carl Bethel, College of The Bahamas Faculty, Staff and Students, Royal Bahamas Defence Force, Ministry of Works, Caribbean Tourism Organization, Pastors Leonardo Rahming, Eric Clarke and Dr. Michael Toote and family, Elders Smith, Farquarhson, Moore and Gayle, Katrina Mitchell, and the various prayer groups, soup kitchen and members of The Maranatha Seventh Day Adventist Church, the Baptist Community of Mayaguana, friends of the Grants Town and St. James Road Communities, friends of the Nassau Village Community and relatives, friends, and residents of Mayaguana.
Friends may pay their last respects at Demeritte's Funeral Home, Market Streets, from 9-5:0 p.m. on Saturday & on Sunday at the church from 12:00 noon until service time.
