Funeral service for Flora Brunell Demeritte Pratt, 92 yrs., a resident of West Street & formerly of Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera, who died on 8th May, 2012, will be held at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Street, on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be Father Glen C. Nixon. Interment follows in Catholic Cemetery, Tyler Street.
Flora's survivors include one sister-in-law, Helen McQuay-Demeritte; her nieces Sybil Butler, Yvonne Maura, Blanche Moss-Allen, Hazel, Sandra and Angela Demeritte, Althea Cleare, Dolores Styles, Barbara (Barrie) Shepherd (Freeport, G.B.I.), Janet Dorsett, Rosemond Kemp, Vanvalor Parsard (Brooklyn, New York), Barbara Demeritte, Augusta Taylor, Joan and DeAnn Demeritte, Agnes Walkine and Relinda Arnett; nephews, Gladstone, Kirkwood, Franklyn, Alfred, Kenneth and Sgt. 65 Roland Demeritte of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Donald and Elwood Shepherd (Freeport, G.B.I.), Wilton Keenan (Brooklyn, New York), Hesley Keenan (California), Edwin, Leo, Christopher and Albert Demeritte. Numerous grandnieces and grandnephews including Alsada Butler, Alana Burrows, Cora Butler, Loretta Cartwright, Anastasia and Cecile Maura, Jovita Chea, Earla Moss, Camille Armbrister, Albertha Lightbourne, Vanessa Spence, Marva Moss, Portia Glinton, Natasha Demeritte, Anita and Akara Cleare, Kendia Demeritte, Symone Clarke (Atlanta, Georgia), Racquel Chea, Simona Fawkes, Monique Shepherd, Nicole Pierre, Antoinette Dorsett, Leonette Kemp (Tennessee), Racquel Smith, Anissa Shepherd (Freeport, G.B.I.), Desiree Shepherd (Florida), Marcia Fernander-Bannister, Leisa Fernander-Moxey, Sonja Fernander-Brown, Rolanda Taylor, Jadon and Jolean Demeritte, Charles and Andrew Butler; Hubert, R. Matt and Marichael Maura, Mark and Desmond Armbrister, Marvin, Delano, Gladstone, Jr., Devon, Jamaal, Aaron and Ian Demeritte, Chesney, Julian, Whitney and Craig (Houston, Texas) Fernander, Devane Evans, Adrian Styles, Virgil, Demetrius (Texas), Desilini, Therron, Anthony and Jermaine Shepherd, Ronaldo Taylor, Darwin, Darron and RajauKai Demeritte. Other family and friends including Dr. & Mrs. Kendal Capron and the Good Samaritan Senior Citizen's Home, Yellow Elder Gardens, Gloria Miller, Una Miller, Derecka Higgs and Family, The Salvation Army, Grants Town Corp., Mary Sweetnam, Vera Perpall, Henrietta Major, Nurse Eloise Nichols and Family, the entire Demeritte Family, the communities of West Street, Scott Street, South Street and McQuay Street.
Friends may pay their last respects at Demeritte's Funeral Home, Market Street, from 10-6:00 p.m. on Friday & on Saturday at the church from 9:00 a.m. until service time.
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