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Attorney Maxwell Selkirk Anderson Turner

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Funeral Service for the late Attorney Maxwell Selkirk Anderson Turner age 86 years of Ryswick Close will be held on Saturday July 21st, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Anglican Church, Highbury Park. Officiating will be Bishop Laish Boyd. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Gardens, Soldier Road.

Maxwell Selkirk Anderson Turner is survived by his beloved wife of 59 years: Gwendolyn Turner nee Nixon; children: Therese Turner-Jones (Dennis); Justice Bernard Turner (April); Karen Walcott (Kenneth); Cecile Greene (Stafford) and Anita Turner-Christie (Basilio); grandchildren: Dr. Bronwyn Huggins, Rhian Jones, Eleanor Jones; Reagan, Joshua and Alexander Turner; Zara Walcott; Gabrielle and Gershwin Greene; Ayden and Aubrey Christie; other “adopted” children: Giselle Fielder and Rachel Fielder; Leo Foulkes; Scott Nixon; Reginald (Ray) Saunders and Jeanette Forbes, Jannelle Curtiss and Tayshaun Forbes; the children of his dear late sister: Elaine Turner-Sands: Catherine Sands, Christine Sands-Been, Yvonne Sands, Basil Sands, Desmond Sands, Heather Strachan, Adrienne Sands, Michelle Sands and Bonnie Basden; sisters: Marsha Major, Malvern Thompson and Pat Turner; brothers: Michael Turner and Paul Turner; in-Laws: Sir Arthur Foulkes and Lady Joan Foulkes; Harriet Nixon; Venencia Thompson (Earl); Betty and Samuel Hall; Mary and Philip Symonette; Egbert Jones; Pauline Bastian; Family of the late Lisle and Marina Walcott; Family of the late David and Doreen Greene; Basil Christie and Rosita Christie; nieces and nephews: Brendan Foulkes (Rosie), Dion Foulkes (Emma), Julie Herrara (Prospero), Chantal Okpere, Leo Foulkes, Lisa Bethel (Carl), Michael, Joseph and John Foulkes, Dr. Dominique Johnson (Lee), Carlos Foulkes (Chandra); Keith Harris-Nixon (Mary), Yvette Nixon, Terrance Nixon II (Jaime), Ninette Williams (Pete); Earl Thompson II (Ava), Marici and Jacinta Thompson; Venencia Hall, Eric Hall (Tiffany); Stacey Adderley (Wayde), Kenneth Bethell (Sherry); cousins: Marjorie Stuart, Jerry and Dexter Thompson, Brenda Graham, Pamela and Peter Moody, Deseline Lowe, Lorraine Clarke, the Children of the Late Bertram Bowe; other relatives and friends: Dr. Mildred Hall-Watson and Family, Frank and Virginia Campbell and Family, Bloneva Darville and Family, Dr. Elizabeth Darville, The Nixon Family of Inagua, Michael Symonette, Idris and Gwen Reid, Fred Murray, Dwayne Murray, Stanley Rolle and Family, Cecil Hilton, Vivienne Francis and Family, Hyacinth Saunders-Burnside and Family, the entire Anglican Communion, especially Bishop Z. Laish and Joann Boyd, the Family of the late Canon Neil and Joan Roach, Canon Norman Lightbourne and Mrs. Lightbourne, Deacon Eric Miller, the Vestry, ACM, ACW, HCCA, servers guild, senior choir and the people of Holy Cross Parish, especially the children of the late Florence Gray, Archer, Watson, Sands, Jupp, Turnquest, McKinney, Bartlett and Reid Families, Patrick and Eula Edwards, Eva and Langton Hilton, Dorie Yearwood, Dorothy Fox, Lillian and Duke Smith, Sandra Campbell, Mary Davis, Sylvia Kemp, Viola Nixon, Olga Bethel, Brian and Paulette Higgs, Paula and Ivan Holder, the Family of the late Gene Haynes, Samuel Aurelhomme, the residents of Sands Subdivision, Andrew and Bonnie Malone, Members of the Bahamas Bar Association, officers, members present and former of the Kiwanis Club of Fort Montaqu, Canon Sebastian Campbell, Fred Mitchell and Members of The National Heroes Committee, his Government High School alumni and all other friends far too numerous to list by name; a special thanks is extended to Dr. Agreta Eneas-Carey, his caregivers Jeanette Forbes, Alice Anderson and Sharon Davis for the compassionate care provided to him especially in the last eight months.

Family and 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. and at the church on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. ‬until service time.