Victor Nelson Claridge

Funeral service for Victor Nelson Claridge, age 80 years of Marigold Farm Road, will be held on Friday October 9, 2015, at 11:00a.m., at St. Margaret's Anglican Church, Kemp Road. Officiating will be The Right Rev. Bishop Laish Z. Boyd and assisted by Rev. Fr. Oswald Pinder. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Gardens, Solider Road.

Left to cherish his memories are his wife of 56 years: Naomi Minerva, their five children: Theophilus (Ambrosine Erune) Claridge, Paulette Claridge, Ian (Erma Ambrose) Claridge, Dien Claridge-Edwards, and Melvin Claridge, as well as Henley (Shandy) Claridge, Nelson Claridge and Rochelle (Gregory) Basden; grandchildren: Keldrick Edwards, Kristina Edwards, Tia Claridge, Vincent Claridge, Henley Jr. Claridge, Darnell Claridge, Theo Claridge, Nadia Johnson, Nico Johnson, Rashad Basden and Khalil Basden; great-grandchildren: Kennadi Edwards, Celine Chisholm, Nyah and Leah Miller and Remeo Claridge; sisters: Elizabeth and Frances Claridge; adopted brother: Edwin and Marjorie Turnquest; in-laws: Aldora Claridge, Ethel Claridge, Theodore Quant, John and Theda Godet, Eva and T. Langton Hilton, Maggie and E. George Moss, Rev. Edward and Mary Godet, Sonia Godet, Rosa Mae and David Bain, George Godet, Rose Richardson, Ruby Graham, Ralph Godet, William and Sharon Godet, Hanna and J. Garfield Gray; cousins: Dorothy Knowles, Earnestine Williams, Silvia Nixon, Pauline King, Leslie Nixon, Margaret Claridge, Jasmine Sands, David Bain, James Bain and John Bain; nephews and nieces: Stanley, Barbara, Kirtland, Deborah, Sharon, Linda, Claire, J'Von, 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, Allison, Alverro, Bernard, Gorgette, Presley, Kendal, Steve (Deshield), Rashad, Rochell, Galen, Karatesha, Diego, William, Chemarco, Geneen, Johann, Sylvia, Dorothy, Shephanie, Vernal, Cheri, Dave, and Monalisa; numerous grandnephews and nieces, family and friends: Peter Bowe and family, Nigel and Stephanie Bowe and family, Visna and Charles Mackay and family, Joan Bowe-McKay and family, Ervin and Stella Knowles and family, Reginald Wells and family, Lionel and Naomi Symonette and family, Desmond Silvera and family, Ernest Fraser and family, the family of the late Gary Wallace, Thomas and Nancy Malone, Roy and Shirley Rodgers and family, Dorothy Godet and family, Dr. John and Sylvia Godet and family, Priscilla Angela Thompson and family, Lionella Thompson and family, Angela Cleare and family, Alma Oliver and family, Raymond Claridge and family, Shirley Papageorge and family, Elizabeth Butler and family, Helen Knowles and family, Chris Knowles and family, Daniel Knowles and family, Roosevelt Godet and family, Kenneth Taylor and family, Marjorie Godwin and family, Yvonne Coleman, Althea Tinker and family, Lloyd Quant and family, the Godet family, the Duncanson family, the family of the late Gwendolyn Dames, the family of the late Marge Smith, the family of the late Lofton and Annie Russell, Their Excellencies Sir Arthur A. and Lady Foulkes; Arnold and Mary McCartney and family, Irene Thompson and family, Stanley Bethell and family, Sidney Godet and family; Ambrose Forbes and family, the Munnings family, Wellington and Debbie Gibson and family, Minky Isaacs and family, Mark Hanna, the family of St. Margaret's Anglican Church, Kemp Road especially the Friday morning mass crew, the Eastern Senior Class of '49, the staff of Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre, the staff of A.F. Adderley Junior High School, the staff of the Intensive Care Unit, Princess Margaret Hospital, Bishop Laish Z. Boyd and The Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands.

Special Thanks To: Dr. Christine Chin and staff for their dedicated medical care; care givers: Sharon Powell, Pamela Williams, Maria Graham, and Maureen Neil.

To those whose names were inadvertently left off, we do apologise.

Friends may pay their last respects at Butlers'Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Ernest and York Streets on Thursday October 8, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. until 4:30p.m. and at the church on Friday October 9, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. until service time.