Alafair Everett Berkel
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Funeral Service for the Late Alafair Everett Berkel, aged 86 years of Pompano, Florida and formerly of Harbour Island and Nassau, Bahamas, who died on Friday, December 25th, 2015, will be held on Saturday, January 9th, 2016, 10:00 a.m. at Robinson-Morris Chapel AME Church, Ridgeland Park, West. Rev. Howard Williamson will officiate. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Soldier Road.
Left to cherish her memories are Eight daughters: Malvern Williams, Dovis Berkel, Marilyn Major, Donnalea Colebrooke, Frances Pitters, Generosa Berkel-Austin, Sheila Berkel and Sherry Johnson; Five Adopted children: Grace Thompson, Erma “Bobbi” Davis, Noel Charles, William Bullard (Wilma) and Rodney Cleare (Wendy); Six Sons-in-law: Hector Williams, Franklyn Major, Brendon Colebrooke, Herbert Pitters, Frank Austin and Edwin Graham Johnson; Two Sisters-in-law: Frances Berkel-Bullard and Doreen Albury; Fourteen Grandchildren: Randy, Jonelle, Dustin Williams; Jillian Storr (Rorey), Simone Crim (Lonnie), Laurie Mckenzie, Amardo, Galen (Tamika) and Ian Pitters; Shanta and Jermaine Colebrooke (Alysia); Julian Major (Carey); Erin Johnson and Sharlene Thompson; Seventeen Great-grandchildren: Lanise, Julian, Darius, Anthony, Taylor, Atreo, Tehya, Malik, Amari, Jacob, Joshua, Jaaziah, Safiya, Kijani, Alaya, Randy Jr, and Alyna; Four Nephews: Kenneth Johnson, Thomas Bullard (Frances), Chris and Shane Albury; Fourteen Nieces: Christianna Thompson, Lina Thompkins (Rev. Timothy), Judy Green, Pamela Faulks, Ruth Derrico (Rev. George), Gloria Ashley, Nora and Tessie Albury, Cecily, Laurieann and Lena Albury, Antoinette Higgs (Michael), Raynell Miller (Walter) and Oralee Thompson; Two Godchildren: Kendra Cooper and April Buchanon. A host other relatives and friends including: Beaufort & Daisy Dorsett & family; Tracy Cooper; Gapetto, Alonzo and Alexio Saunders; Annis Antrobus & family; Ida Rahming & family; Basil Huyler II; Roslyn Johnson and the Charlton & family; Bishop Lipton McKenzie & Family; Rev. Howard Williamson & family; Bishop Dudley & Ionie Kelly and family; Bishop and Sister Fred Newchurch; Rev. Ellison Greenslade & family; Jan Russell & family; Washington Park National Church of God family; Robinson-Morris Chapel AME Church family; Chela-Tech Medical Lab family; Neil, Sheta and Ron Davis; Vera Rolle & family; Bertha Curry & family; Katherine Musgrove & family; Gwendolyn Ferguson & family; Rudean and Jimmie Fox; Muriel Kemp & family; Wenly and Beatrice Fowler & family; Sandy, Stuart, Romell and Joann Cleare & families; Vhaul, Phil, Andreas, Gaynell, Lavaughn and Shanta Thompson & families; Doddy and T.J. Ward; Jacqueline Percentie & family; Darrol Laramore and family; Ruby Percentie & family; Margaret Symonette & family; Mary, John, Reno, Martin, Douglas, Alva and Adrianna & families; Olga Higgs & family; Margaret Grant & family; Lougana Higgs & family; Juanita, Beryl, Betty and Butch Saunders; Edward “Jack” Johnson & family; Wilamina Sargent, Sharon Timothy & families; Delma Sawyer; Donald Major & family; Eunice Parkinson & family; Ronnie, Tony, Gary, and Dwayne Roberts & families; Linda Braynen & family; Jose Roberts & family; Rick, Dorothy, Theresa, Gina, Sis. Cecilia & families; the Cleare family; Margaret Gibson & family; Caleb, Lester, Marsha, Paulette and Diane Gibson & families; Rodney Gibson & family; Eulamae Higgs & Family; Janice Major & Family; Leah & Elijah Webb & family; Brenda & Daphne Duvalier & Family; Charles Bethel & family; Maureen Storr and Alvin Greenslade & families; the Berkel families of St. Eustatius, D.W.I.; Gloria Cox & Family; Macarthur Fernander & family; Ronell and Ivy Forbes; the Major, Cargill, Thompson and Saunders families; Ornella Hyman; Stan & Basil Davis and Freddie Bain & families; Kenneth and Hyacinth Pitters & families; Alsaida Johnson; Mary Ferguson & family; Nerissa Powell; Martha Beneby; Agla Capron & Family; Joe Duncombe and family; the staff and management of Pharmachem Technologies; and a host of other relatives and friends in Canada, the United States, Nassau, Harbour Island, Eleuthera and the surrounding Islands of the Bahamas.
Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians, #44 Nassau Street, on Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time.
