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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
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NEW YORK - The Hon. Forrester Carroll, Bahamas Consul General to New York, delivered brief remarks at the funeral service for Sandra Marie Elliott Coleman at St. Philip’s Church, 134th Street at Adam Powell Jr. Boulevard, New York, on Tuesday, February 24, 2014. Mrs. Coleman was a Bahamian-American and the oldest daughter of the late Clarence Elliott, who was born and grew up at Stanyard Creek, Andros, before moving to New York in the late 1940s. Although she was born in New York, Mrs. Coleman received her early childhood education in Nassau, Bahamas, and subsequently attended high school in Miami, graduating from Miami Northwestern Senior High School in 1965. She subsequently spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Navy, and as a retired Naval Officer, another funeral service will be held in a chapel at a Quantico Base in Virginia on Friday, February 27, and she will be buried in Quantico National Cemetery. Pictured from left to right following the funeral service in New York are: Mr. William R. Dames, Past-President of the Bahamian American Association; Mrs. Sandra McLaughlin, Consul, Bahamas Consulate in New York; Oswald T. Brown, Press, Cultural Affairs and Information Manager with the Bahamas Embassy in Washington, D.C., and a first cousin of Mrs. Coleman; Miss Norma Elliott, a sister of Mrs. Coleman; Mr. Joseph Taylor, a Bahamian living in New York; Ms. Dorea Rolle, President of the Bahamian American Association; Dr. Valencia Carroll, wife of the Consul General; and Consul General Carroll.
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