Gertrude Louise Burnside
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Funeral Service for the Late Gertrude Louise Burnside, aged 97 years of The White House, Fort Fincastle, North Street, who died on Wednesday, January 27th, 2016, will be held on Saturday, February 6th, 2016, 11:00 a.m. at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road. Rev’d Fr. I. Ranfurly Brown assisted by Archbishop Drexel Gomez, Archbishop Gilbert Thompson, Canon Warren Rolle and Rev’d Fr. James Moultrie will officiate. Interment will in the Western cemetery, Nassau Street.
Gertrude is survived by her children: Stanley, Julia and Wayman; sister: Coral Taylor; sister-in-law: Lady Jacqueline Fawkes; brother-in-law: Garnard Burnside; daughters-in-law: Pam and Denisia Burnside; grandchildren: Jackson Logan IV, Ebony, Wayman II, Orchid, Brooke, Stanley Chiké, Nejmi & Britt Burnside and Thomas Dickinson; great-grandson: Tobias Dickinson; nieces: Stephanie Yancy, Sharon Taylor, Rosalie Fawkes, Pat Brown, Leslie Christian, Madeline Carter-Lindemann, Kelly Miller-Taylor, Dee Taylor, Melinda Herron & Beverley Deveaux; nephews: Edward & Clinton Deveaux, Francis, Douglas & David Fawkes, John, Phil & Jim Taylor, Sir Charles, Franklin, Harold & Michael Carter, Herbert Orlander, Joseph Yancy Jr., and Willie Covington; grandnieces: Lisa, Marie & Claire Deveaux, Joy Yancy, Janelle Taylor, Emily Taylor, Bloneva Christian, Hafsa, Maryum, Fatima & Sakeena Abdul-Hakeem; grandnephews: Paul Deveaux, Joe Yancy, Charles Abdul-Hakeem, Jesse & Ben Taylor, Din & Devon Christian; numerous relatives including: the family of the late Harcourt and Mary Carter, the family of the late Henny McKinney, the family of the late Mildred Swain, the family of the late Lorenzo Saunders, Reginald Poitier and family, the family of the late Maude Hamilton, Sir Sidney Poitier and family, Merlene Poitier and family, the family of the late Irene Poitier of Florida, Florence Stephens and family, the family of the late Vera Cartwright, Mrs. Antoinette Weech, the family of the late Lucille Brown, the family of the late Lloyd Burnside, the McKinney, Glover, Bethel, Ford, Symonett, Ritchie and Mortimer families, Lionel Symonett and family, Cassie Cooper and family and the Bethel family Nassau Street; godchildren: Olive Clarke, Faye Smith, Cassandra Davenport, Debbie Ingraham, Patrice Kemp, Kenneth Donathan and their families; special friends including: Thelma McWeeney and family, George and Setella Cox and family, Patrick Bethel and family, childhood friend and classmate Thelma Thompson, Mrs. Muriel Eneas and family, Mrs. Savaleta Lockhart, family of the late Mildred Dillet, Arlene Nash-Ferguson and family, Zelia Bethel and family, Andrea Smith and family, Gerald and Barbara Sawyer and family, Yvonne Woods and family, Stephanie Roberts and family, Shirley Lightbourne and family, the family of the late Pearl Donathan, the family of the late Grace Bullard, The family of the late Pat Archer, The family of the late Ruth Carey, Patsy Wring and family, the Nichols, Davis and Blyden families, Jane Adderley and family, Ruth Bowe-Darville and family, Anne Pratt-Moss and family, Chris Francis and family, Judith Theophilus and family, Claudette Bethel and family, Dr. Alexya Dorsett-Williams and family, Aneeta Neely, Paulette Walker, Mitzy Swaby, Carla Stuart, Michelle Dames, Donzella Burke, Carmelle Jennings, Blossom Knight-Scott, the former and present members of the Fort Fincastle community, St Agnes Church and the Anglican Church Women's family, The Girl's Brigade Council and members, the One Family Junkanoo and Community Organization, Jean Isaacs' Exercise Group, Mortimer Candy Limited Family, the Lowe's Pharmacy family, the Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association and many others too numerous to mention.
Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians, #44 Nassau Street, on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. THERE WILL BE NO VIEWING AT THE CHURCH.
