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Teacher Beryl Laid To Rest
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Shimei Tabernacle of Seventh-day Adventists at Long Bay was the venue of a very large funeral on Sunday, April 29, at which persons from throughout Anguilla and various places outside the island paid their last respects to Beryl St. Clare Hodge-Fleming.
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Mount Fortune Adventist Group in song
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The former Anguillian school teacher died in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands shortly after leaving Anguilla.
She taught for many years, serving at the West End Primary School, Road School, Valley Boys, Valley Girls and East End Primary Schools. She was trained at the Teacher Training College in Antigua. She retired from the Anguilla Public Service in January 1981.
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The final journey
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Later that year she moved to St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, where she joined the teaching staff at the St. Thomas/St. John Seventh-day Adventist School and served as a Grades 3 & 4 teacher for nine years. Following that she returned to Anguilla.
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The late Tr. Beryl
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Ms Hodge-Fleming was one of the earliest members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Anguilla and has held various positions of leadership. Her parents, the late Edmond & Agatha Hodge of Long Bay were credited with the early spread of Adventism on the island and Beryl, then only six years old, was considered a young partner in the ministry. In recent weeks she had been working with a local church committee to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Adventism in Anguilla later this year.
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Teacher Beryl’s Nephew-in-law, Mr. Fleming
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A long period of tributes preceded the funeral service. During the service, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming, a Nephew-in-Law, delivered a shirt tribute in which he spoke highly of Teacher Beryl, her leadership and spiritual qualities and her influence on his own life.
The Immanuel Methodist Church Chorale joined the Adventist Church Choirs and other singers in singing special selections.
The officiating Clergy included the decease’s nephew, Pastor Sherwin Callwood, Ph.D, who serves in the United States; Resident Pastor Danny Philip and Pastor Virgil Sams who visited from St. Kitts.