Funeral Service For HORACE CLEARE, 69 of Bronx, New York and formerly of Cat Island, will be held on Saturday, 3rd February, 2024. Officiating will be The Rev’d. Dr. Karl Marcelle assisted by other ministers of the Gospel. Cremation will follow.
He is preceded in death by his loving devoted wife Mrs. Coralyn Johnson-Cleare.
Horace is survived by his, loving sons: Trond and Chryston Cleare; grandchildren: Ackeenia Johnson and Linae Blanc, siblings: Bishop Levi Cleare Jr., Ethelore Cleare Sow, and New York State Senator Cordell Cleare; nieces: Patricia Cleare Patton [Michelle, Melody, Joselle), Sylvia Cleare [Zara], Sirah Sow, Abigail Cleare, Jenaba Sow, Maayel Sow and Cristina [Caiden], Chelsea and Candice Colebrooke; nephews: Kevin Cleare, Ishmael Cleare [Ishmael Jr.]. Gabriel Cleare, George Cleare and Amady Sow; sisters-in-law: Dr. Wendy Bethel-Cleare, Nurse Rosalee Colebrooke; brothers-in-law: Aladji, Manley, Sherman (SJ), Edney, Walter (Linda), David, Samuel (Gaynell), Tommy (Pamela) Johnson; uncles: Samuel Cleare, Audley Hart; aunts: Gladys Ferguson, Rosemary Archer, Sylvia Burrows, Blossom Cleare, Mable Cleare, Linda Farrington, Alnor Daniels, Olive Hanna, Leoni Rolle; cousins: Carolyn Jackson, Edward Archer, Eula Nixon, Sharon Greene, Donna Bullard, Patrice Archer, Austin Cleare, Douglas Cleare, Torry Cleare, Deon Cleare, Shantel Cleare, Antoinette Richardson, Linda Roker, Cepheus Taylor, Paul Roxbury, Blanche Roxbury, Timothy Roxbury, Hosea Roxbury, Florence Murphy, Ron Murphy and their families, Barbara Hepburn, Pat Sanchez, Jennie Wilson and family; godchildren: Derwin, Fatima, Lexi, Malek; A host of beloved friends and family including: “Ricky Ricardo Paterson, Gary Chambers, Gilda Gillim, Kim Wiggins, Shirley Wright, Consul General Joy A. Newbold, Idamae Bain and family, Theresa Phillipe and family, Paulamae Ferguson and family, Letticia Escarment, Reverend Regina Sears-Muschett, Brian, Bradley, Coco, the Honorable Alfred M. Sears KC and Marion Bethel, Chinello Sears; The families of Bruce and Juanita Butler, Joshua and Samuel McIntosh, Sister Sylvia Bethel, Mr. Paul King and Dr. Olga A. Clarke-King and their families, Buelahmae and Alfred Rutherford, Stafford Devoe, David Nieves, Boubacar Sow, Maimouna Sow, Ms. Karen Thompson and family, Pat’s and Emmaus Nursing Home, Mr. Butch, Corey, Mikey, Noel, Jessie, Harold, Cheryl, Pat, Lerlene Moss, Renee Taylor, Netania and Lanaisa, Sonia, Lydia, and families from New York, many nieces and nephews, the entire Old Bight Family, the New York City Carpenters Union, The Bouck Avenue community of the Bronx, Bethel Brothers Morticians, and a host of beloved friends and family too numerous to mention.
May his soul rest in peace!
Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians & Crematorium, #44a Nassau Street on Friday 2nd February, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
