Wednesday.

Harold Evans, who was 83, of Evans brother's partnership which he owned and operated with his brother Stanley, leaves behind two children and three grandchildren after a valiant life of enterprise and service.

Mr. Evans was born in the UK in 1917 but came to Bermuda at the age of 15 with his family.

He began work as a bellboy aboard the cruise ship Queen of Bermuda where his father was the Chief Steward.

But it was in the 1950s when Mr. Evans was working at Cambridge Beaches when his brother Stanley, offered him a partnership in a risky gamble.

The result was the Tea Cosy Restaurant, Penthouse Club and Twenty-One Club.

Stanley who died last year, then branched out into other ventures creating a veritable business empire between the two.

His son, Richard, said Mr. Evans always proved to be capable, intelligent and caring and was a Mr. Fix-it whose qualities embodied the love and affection he had for his family.

Richard Evans said: "Although he was an entrepreneur he was also a family man. He split time between family and a business.''