RUFUS “Piper” MELFRED MARTIN
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Funeral Service for
RUFUS MELFRED MARTIN "Piper” age 80
of Spring City, Abaco will be held on Saturday October 3 2015 at St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Marsh Harbour, Abaco, at 10:00am. Officiating will be The Right Rev’d Laish Z. Boyd
Bishop of the Bahamas & Turks and Caicos Islands, assited by Rev’d Willish Johnson, Rev’d. Fr. Earl A. Hepburn Rev’d. Fr. Tellison Glover. Interment will follow in The Coffy Memorial Cemetery, Marsh Harbour, Abaco.
Left to mourn him are the people who he have loved, cherished and cared for deeply, his faithful and loving wife of 54 years Gretel Deloris Martin, daughters Gwendolyn and Lillian Martin, Mrs. Flora Fernander, Leona Pratt (deceased), sons James, George and Rufus Martin and Arlton Glinton (deceased), grandchildren, James Jr., Jody, Myles, George Jr., Sheldon, Maleek, Shaquille, Shaqueme, Trae Martin, Brandon and Corey Pratt, Dikembe Wilkinson, Lachell and Kiara Fernander, Tremeice, Geormea and Trainae Martin, Deondrea Wilkinson, Keisha Forbes, Wallie Lightbourne and Meko McKenzie. Brothers Ortnel, (George, Ralph & Kendel (deceased), Richard Gibbs, John Hudson; son-in-law George (Ricky) Fernander daughters-in-law Trainette, Rashel and Joan Martin (deceased); granddaughter-in-law Chandline Martin; sisters-in-law Joyce Martin, Deborah Martin, Irene Mullings, Roslyn Mullings, Jennifer Hudson, Beryl Gibbs, brother-in-law Simon Mullings; nieces Maxine, Ruthmae and Denise Martin, Beverly Forbes, Valerie Lewis, Zuleika Pickstock, Claramae Joseph, Dimple Duncanson, Louise Smith, Ruby-Ann Burrows, Shawnette Roye, Emily, Edith Roberts, Chrystal Adderely (grand niece), Sharon Checkley (England), Brenda, Shonova, Tonia, Stacy, Collette, Vernita, Ellen, Beatrice and Dorothy Mullings; nephews Theodore, Keanu, Willie, Cardwick, Clarton, Wellington & Ronald Martin, Frank, Telford, Joseph, Isaac, Robert, Harvey, Albert, Lincoln, Cleveland, Emmanuel, Paul, Sherwin, Phillip, Evan, Samuel, Thomas (deceased), Emmanuel (Doppie), Samuel (Sammy), Evan, Philip, Paul & Shocoy Mullings, John Robertson, Wilson Joseph, Gerald Rolle & Keith Checkley (England); godchildren Edith Rolle, Simone Pinder & Marvin Walker; adopted children Monica Adderly, Doreen Finlayson, Rev. Willish Johnson, Carol Moss, Sheila Kelly, Joan Baillou, Willimae Edgecombe & Carl Pratt; numerous grand & great-grand nieces and nephews, too numerous to name, other relatives and friends including Modesta Smith and family, Rev. Father Earl, Zoe and Gabriel Hepburn, Virginia Russell and family, Mavis McQueen and family, Evelyn Wilson & family, Delsena Rolle and family, Edith Clarke and family, Rev. Mervin Burrows and family, the Henchell family, Lowe family, Ona Ingraham & family, Ruthmae Theagene & family, the Delancy family, Shelly Austin and family, Spring City Community, Georgia Williams-Curry and family, Clifford Henfield and family, Shawn & Jackie Robins & family, James Williams & family, Ismael Morley, the Gomez family, Knowles family, Edna Dorsette & family, Sidney Kerr and family, Rob McKinney and family, Elic Bain and family, ACM and ACW of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Kendell Kemp & The Paint Place Marsh Harbour Staff, Kara Butler, Veronica Saunders & the Abaco Cancer Society, Joseph Sawyer and family, the vestry and members of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Marsh Harbour Community Clinic, Benjamin Pinder, Lunsworth Lightbourn, Gary Sawyer, Edison Key, Ezra Fox and family, Myrtis Russell, Nicky Forbes, Donalee, Ronalee, Agatha, Sedrick, Eugene and John Ferguson, Margo and Valerie Dean & family, Maria Martin; and others too many to mention.
Viewing be held on Friday at Evergreen Mortuary, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Marsh Harbour Abaco from 12:00 noon to 6:00p.m and again at the church on Saturday from 9:00am until service time.
