Funeral service for Naomi Minerva Claridge, 87 a resident of Marigold Farm Road will be held on Friday, December 8th, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Anglican Church, Soldier Road. Officiating will be Canon Peter Scott assisted by Rev’d Fr. Jan Claridge. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Gardens Cemetery, Soldier Road.
She was predeceased by her husband: Victor Claridge.
Left to cherish her memories are her children: Theophilus Claridge, Paulette Claridge, Ian Claridge, Dien Edwards, and Melvin Claridge; daughters-in-law: Erune Claridge and Erma Ambrose; son-in-law: Richard Watts; grandchildren: Keldrick Edwards, Tia Boyd, Kristina Edwards and Vincent Claridge; grandson-in-law: Robert Boyd; sisters: Eva Hilton, Maggie Moss, Rosa Mae Bain, Rose Richardson, Ruby Graham, and Hannah Gray; brothers: John Godet, Rev. Edward Godet, George Godet, Ralph Godet, and William Godet; great grandchildren: Kennadi Edwards, Ethan Boyd, Eden Rose, Charlene Boyd, and Eva Riley Boyd; in-laws: Theda Godet, T. Langton Hilton, Mary Godet, Sonia Godet, David Bain, Sharon Godet, Ethel Claridge, Elizabeth Claridge and Frances Claridge; cousins: Shirley Rodgers, Dorothy Godet, Marjorie Basden, Orthnell, James, George, John and David Duncanson; nieces and nephews: Sylvia, Dorothy, Stephanie, Vernal, Daphne, Alexandra, Donna Joan, Theodore, Lillian, Barry, Donna, Phillip, Deryck, Elizabeth, Stephen, Gregory, Woodrow, Camille, Adrian, Rosa, Esther, Paula, Naomi, Candace, David, Jonathan, Bergit, Scottie, Orey, Delza, Deirdre, Duncan, Alison, Alverro, Bernard, Georgette, Presley, Steve ‘Deshield’, Rashad, Rochelle, Galen, Karatesha, Diego, William, Chemarco, Geneen, Johann, Cheri, Monalisa, Stanley, Barbara, Deborah, Sharon, Linda, Claire, J’Von and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
All her former students and colleagues at Eastern Senior, DW Davis, S. C. McPherson, C. H. Reeves and L. W. Young.
other family and friends: Helen Ellis and family, the family of Roy and Shirley Rodgers, the family of Dorothy Godet, the family of the late Ursula Woods, the family of the late Vincent ‘Stoney’ ‘Godet, the Duncanson family, the family of the late Dr. John Godet, the family of the late Billy Godet and Sydney Godet, William ‘Roosie’ Godet and family, the family of the late Lofton and Annie Russell, the family of the late Lloyd Quant, the Gibbs family, the Lockhart family, Peter Bowe and family, the family of the late Nigel Bowe and Stephanie Bowe, Visna and Charles Mackay and family, the family of the late Joan Bowe-McKay, the family of the late Terescita Taylor, the family of Cecil Stanley Taylor, the family of Barbara Taylor, Rochelle Basden and family, Nelson Claridge and family, Henley Claridge and family, Earnestine Williams, Silvia Nixon, Pauline King, Leslie Nixon, Jasmine Sands, James Bain, John Bain, the family of the late Ambrose Forbes, the Munnings family, the Watts family in the UK, Priscilla Angela Thompson and family, Lionella Thompson and family; the Chipman family; Angela Cleare and family; the family of the late Ervin and Stella Knowles; Carol Hanna and family; the family of the late Arthur and Beryl Barnett; Desmond Silvera and family; Ernest Fraser and family; the family of the late Gary Wallace; Thomas and Nancy Malone; Shirley Papageorge and family; Elizabeth Butler and family; Helen Knowles and family; Kenneth Taylor and family; Marjorie Godwin and family; Yvonne Coleman; Althea Tinker and family; the family of the late Gwendolyn Dames; the family of the late Marge Smith; their Excellencies Sir Arthur Foulkes and Lady Joan Foulkes, Arnold and Mary McCartney and family; Wellington and Debbie Gibson and family; Cleomi Woods; Cynthia Wells; Ida Moxey; Minky Isaacs and family; Mark Hanna; the Eastern Senior “Class of 49”; the McPhee family; Sister Irene Thompson and family; Bricemae Gibson; Sister Doretha Murphy; Pastor Steven and Sister Dotleen Edgecombe and members of Carmichael Community Bible Church; the Rt. Rev’d Bishop Laish Boyd, Mrs. Boyd, and The Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands; the Rt. Rev’d Canon Peter Scott; Fr. Whitfield Hutchinson and the Parish of St. Margaret; the staff of the Intensive Care Unit, Princess Margaret Hospital; special thanks to Dr. Christine Chin and her staff for their dedicated medical care; Dr. Nikkiah Forbes; and her caregivers Maureen Henry Neil and Ramona Quallo and a host of other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.
We apologize if your name may have been omitted
Relatives and Friends may pay their last respects at Butlers’ Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Ernest and York Streets on (TODAY) Thursday, December 07, 2023 from 11:00a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and at the church on Friday from 10:30 a.m. until service time.”
