VENA ELLA CLARKE McQUAY née CUNNINGHAM
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Funeral Service
MRS. VENA ELLA CLARKE McQUAY née CUNNINGHAM, 85
of #32 Clarke Avenue, Freeport, Grand Bahama and formerly of Colonel Hill, Crooked Island, will be held on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Church of God Temple, Peachtree Street, Freeport, Grand Bahama. Officiating will be Bishop Lonford Bethel, Pastor Judy Bethel and Pastor Conrad Jones. Interment will follow at the Grand Bahama Memorial Park, Frobisher Drive, Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Left to cherish her fond and precious memories are her loving sons: Enoch Clarke, Tamico Smith, Police Corporal 1693 Steven Moss and Police Sergeant 646 Colin McQuay; daughters: Harriet Mather, Linda Collie (Fulton), Paulette McQuay, Theresa McQuay, Angela Rolle and Claudia Williamson; granddaughter: Patrice Clarke; 9 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren; nieces: Shavone and Crystal Bain, Erma Williams (George), Delma Chisolm, Lerlean Carey (Roderick), Sherry Clarke, Dr. Evadney Keith (Robert), Suenae McQuay, Patrice Wilson, Jennifer Bain, Andrea Bain, Adris Lundy (Elwood) Lisa Karageorgiou (Renardo), Delarese Hall (Lynden), Desera Taylor (Kenneth), Patrice Nimmo, Vera Cleare (Basil) Laverne McKinney, Eleanor Forbes, Sylvia Moxey, Barbara and Margaret Cunningham and Muriel Deleveaux; nephews: Herman Bain Jr., Hermis Chisholm (Judymae), Eddison Bain Jr. (Tavanna), Tamacio Mather, Winston Moss and Keith Williams, Shonyafred Major, Ronald, Hesley, Joseph and Kendall Cunningham, Denard Cleare, Craig Thompson and Ervin Fernander and a host of other relatives and friends including: Faith Communities of Church of God Temple, Zion Baptist Church (East & Shirley Streets, St. Anslem’s Roman Catholic Church), Silver Star Ministries; Communities at Clarke Avenue, Feltondale Street and Fox Hill; Staff at Sunrise Medical, Staff at the A&E, Surgical and Medical Wards at the Rand Memorial Hospital, Dr. Leviticus Rolle, Doctor Paul McFarland, Staff at Community Nursing especially Nurse Andrea Beharie, Nurse Nicole Tinker, Nurse Asheron Smith, Nurse Tamiko Dillet and Ms. Margaret Gibson. Evangelist George and Joan Cooper, Rev. and Mrs. Frederick McAlpine, Rev. Ruby Ann Darling, Ms. Gwendolyn King, Rev. T.G. and Royanne Morrison, Dwayne and Daphne Williams, Daphne Menon, Sheldon & Jasmine Johnson, Deaconness Ella Johnson, Rev. Ulric and Bonnie Smith, Rev. Fr. Noel Clarke, Monsignor Fr. Preston Moss, Housekeeping Staff at the former Lucayan Beach Hotel, La’Verne Gardiner, Sharon Bain, Elijah and Jeline Laing, Conrad and Lonnette Jones, Ellen Jones, Hilda Douglas, Sister Monica, Rev. Thericita Jones, Patrick and Tanisha Pyfrom, Denyca Evans, The Fabulous Wives Club, former Staff of Western Bakery, Staff at April Anne’s, Staff at Adelson’s Convenience Store, Alonzo Smith and Carla Armbrister-Knowles, Cynthia Coakley (Glen), Dr. Kizzy Coakley, Hazel Farquharson, Cunningham family, Ferguson family, Brown family and Deleveaux family at Crooked Island and the entire settlement at Colonel Hill, Crooked Island.
Viewing will be held in the “Celestial Suite” at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium Limited, #11-A Coral Road, Freeport, Grand Bahama on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and at the church on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until service time.
