Jessie Cecilia Rudder was born on December 24, 1921, on the island of Barbados, West Indies. She is the third of six children born to Phillip and Annie Goddard of Halls Road, St. Michael. She completed her secular education at Church Village School. She married...
Keziah Vanlair Beaumont Clarke was born to Samuel Aaron Hall (a fisherman) and Florence Hall nee Headley (a housewife) at Olive Lodge Road, Paynes Bay, St. James, on December 25, 1919, and had eight other siblings. Her early education was at the St. John the...
Audrey Esmeralda Chapman’s sharp wit and agility impressed all those she encountered. The centenarian, originally from Pile Bay, Black Rock, St Michael, emigrated to the United States in the 1980s following the death of her mother. In 2016, she returned...
Iona Gaskin was born in Lower Burney, St. Michael and worked as a shop assistant and laundry worker along with working as a domestic. She emigrated to Canada, where she was an active supporter of the Caribbean Associations there. She now resides in Rural Cot, Mapp...
Mrs. Erla Browne was a former teacher of St. Gabriel’s School and is the oldest surviving teacher. She was born at Lightfoot Lane in Bridgetown, but grew up on George Street, St Michael, in her grandparents’ home across the street from St Cyprian’s Anglican...
Doris Goodman loved travelling in her younger days. She has visited Canada, England, and Australia. In 1951, she moved to the United States where she worked at a major department store in New York called Gimbels for 26 years. Doris eventually became the head of...
