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Edith Francklin was born October 22,1943 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. At the age of 24, Edith emigrated to the United States.   She and her husband, Faride Sr., started their family raising their son, Faride Jr. and daughter Jennifer.  She retired in 2001 to help raise her three grandchildren: Reginald, Jordan, and Skylar. She was a second mother to many nieces, nephews, cousins, and so many more. On June 5, 2021 Edith Francklin was called home to our lord.

Lucy Ursula Yeates (nee McLean) was born on Saturday, August 23, 1924, at Georgetown, Guyana. On Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2021, she died at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. She was the daughter of Annie Ford (1896-1996) and Henry McLean (1844-1929); it was a marriage that produced three children, Lynette, Henry Jr., and Lucy, all now deceased. Lucy's other siblings included Felix and Oscar Rapier, Tom Ford, and Irene Shepherd. They are now all...