Karen Yvette Forbes

Funeral Service for the Late KAREN YVETTE RUSSELL-FORBES age 43 years of Holmes Rock, Grand Bahama and formerly of Wood Cay, Abaco will be held on Saturday February 22, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Jones Town, Eight Mile Rock. Officiating will be Rev. Harris Lindy Russell, assisted by Rev. Ed Armbrister and Rev. Agatha Martin. Interment will follow in the Harbour West Cemetery.

Left to cherish her memories are her husband: Ricardo Forbes; seven children: Karsten, Karsteeno, Kanraniyah, Kastarra, Kanomera, Kaamanra and Karajahyah; mother: Josephine Russell; mother-in-law: Beatrice Clark; step grandmother: Rebecca Russell; four sisters: Joan and Judith "Joy" Russell, Rosemary Moxey and Shantel Lewis; two brothers: Joshua and Tamar Russell; six sisters-in-law: Glencia Curry, Melissa and Indiana Russell, Valerie Lightbourne-Edden, Patrice Clark, Debrecca, Pauline, Kathrine and Nicole Simms; two brothers-in-law: Francilien Pierre, Roger Moxey, Troy Lewis, Dwight, Doyle and Don Simms; adopted sisters and brothers: Sheralyn and Charles Murphy Sr., Edoney and Kathrine Russell, Evelyn and Peter Storr, Liesell and Geno Edgecombe, Randy and Melinda Lightfoot, Daniel and Maygleana Penn, Wellington and Vertal Pinder, Bengi Forbes, Cohen Winters, Paddie Harris, Lowell and Caswell Burrows, Janell Lightbourne, Linda Cousin Newton; uncles: Walter Russell, Rev'd. Oral and Rev'd. Edward Poitier; aunts-in-law: Debbie Russell, Myrtle, Mavis and Ellamae Poitier, Norma Tucker-Smith, Betty Ann Bastian, Annie Tucker; uncles-in-law: Rev'd. Ezekiel McIntosh and Clayton Tucker; step uncle: Lofton Mills; step uncle-in-law: Neville Kemp; step aunts: Shirley Kemp and Geneva Roberts; adopted Aunt: Annamae Adderley; adopted uncles: Elijah Mills and Rudolph Pinder; grand aunt: Mabel Abigail Rolle; grand uncles and aunt-in-law: James and Leo Missick and Brernice Outten; nieces: Rogernika Smith, Rojernae, Roshanique, Rodesha Moxey, Yas'nee Russell, Tivia Lewis; nieces-in-law, Andrea Hanfield, Jamillah Clark, Rudy and Rudyann Higgs, Debrekah, Dequanyah, Kiera, Gabriel, Venia, Dakari, Deaja, Dahliya, Delaney, Debrenae, Dea-Dea and Natavia Simms; nephews: Valentino, Valencio and Valenderio Bethel, Utico, Tamar Jr, Joshua Jr., Josiah and Mark Russell, D'Angelo Albury, Myles and Trevaughn Lewis and Alfred Griffin; nephews-in-law: Paul Rigby, Romell Burrows, Dali-leon, Devynn, Leon and Daquan Simms; grand nieces and nephews: Kiara Williams, Amber Bethel, Lyndena and Lynika Clark, Siddera Sweating, Raquel Griffin, Luchano Smith Jr. and Marvin Sweeting Jr.; adopted nieces and nephews: Charldera, Charles Jr., and Sheridan Murphy and Ethan Russell; a host of other relatives and friends.

Viewing will be held at Russell's & Pinder's Funeral Home, Eight Mile Rock on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 12:00 noon until 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until service time at the church.