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An artist and nature lover who captured Bermuda’s landscape and flora in a landmark book will be remembered with a special exhibition of her work today.
Christine Watlington, a painter and botanical illustrator, poured years of research into her 1996...
DATE: May 20, 2022
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One of the originators of an offbeat annual tradition dating back the 1950s was a fun-loving mariner known for his personable nature.
Ian Farrow was a founder of the Non-Mariner’s Race – an irreverent take on Bermuda’s yachting tradition in which par...
DATE: May 17, 2022
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The “matriarch” behind one of Bermuda’s classic pubs was a “larger than life person” who delighted in seeing people enjoy her food.
Jackie Correia ran the Swizzle Inn at Bailey’s Bay in Hamilton Parish alongside her husband, Johnny, for more than 30 ...
DATE: May 07, 2022
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A “visionary” who helped to shape modern Dockyard from the helm of the West End Development Corporation was driven by a sense of service to Bermuda.
The family of Robert “Bob” Tucker said he was determined to forge his own path from growing up as son...
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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A former Royal Bermuda Regiment commander was an historian who immortalised the island’s story in documentaries
DATE: Apr 20, 2022
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A popular restaurateur and Hamilton Princess staff member was a “legend in hospitality”, former colleagues and friends recalled
DATE: Mar 24, 2022
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Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A teacher born and raised in Somerset was praised as a “West End warrior”.
Maude Bassett, who has died, aged 102, was the deputy principal at Somerset Primary School but was devoted to West End Primary, where she started her teaching career in 1943.
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DATE: Mar 22, 2022
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A lifelong tourism ambassador and hotel worker known for old-fashioned Bermudian hospitality made a name for himself as Champagne Danny.
Danny Gilbert was synonymous with the Elbow Beach Hotel in Paget.
He devoted 56 years to the South Shore resort, ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2022
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A St George’s ship’s pilot and shipwright risked his life as a small-boat captain during the Second World War.
Edric Pearman, who was 104, and his late wife, Joyce, who died in 2016 after almost 75 years of marriage, were known as the island’s longes...
DATE: Feb 18, 2022
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An engineer who headed a Bermuda telecommunications firm led turn of the century work to safeguard the island against the computer flaw dubbed the millennium bug.
Gregory Swan, a top Belco engineer who later headed the Government’s telecommunications...
DATE: Feb 11, 2022
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Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer