Valeria Cecilia Saunders
Augustus Funeral Home regrets to announce the passing of Valeria Cecilia Saunders, wife of the late Winston Leroy “Nin Nin” Saunders, daughter of the late Hilton Stuart Davis and Frances Cecilia Davis Francis, loving mother to Nicole Angelique Burgess (Casey) and step mother to Darian Bean (Natalie), grandmother to Shamar Jabbar, step grandmother to Keane Smith (Tse) Marquis Burgess, Mahlon “Jai” Burgess (Elyssa), Elijah and Micah Bean sister to Hilton Davis (Ilyss) and Patricia Parris, and sisters-in-law to Norma Davis and Garline(Geraldine) Butterfield and brothers-in-law Ronald and Carlton Saunders in her 86th year of Westmeath Residential and Nursing Care Home (formerly of 14 Wellington Slip Road, St. George’s GE02). The Celebration of Life service will be held on Friday, September 25th at 11:00 am at Christ Anglican Church, Devonshire. Interment will follow at Richard Allen Cemetery. Visitation will be held TONIGHT, September 24th at Augustus Funeral Home from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm and again on Friday, September 25th from 10:00 am to 10:50 am at Christ Anglican Church.
Valeria is predeceased by her siblings, the late Cecil Davis, Clarence Davis (Sylvia), Helena Cann (Jerry), Marceline Smith and brother-in-law Earlston Saunders, Special niece Marcia Smith.
Also lovingly survived by nieces Deborah Gillett (Roger), Linda Trott, Kim Roberts, Beverly Smith, Karen Trott, Patrice Minors, Michelle, Betty- Anne and Sephanie Davis and Carla Zuill-Ikonwa, Nephews Kenneth Smith, Allan and Noel Cann, Donald, Darren, Michael and Keith Davis, Michael Outerbridge and Nyal Saunders. special Cousin (Sister) Greta Bullen. Cousins Edward Woolridge, Felicity Jacobs, Leonie Curtis, Velma Bascome, Sylvia Ellis, Rena West, Janel Adair, Jawanza Gross, Sydney West, Gwendolyn Creary, Camile Madeira, Karim Creary, Shelley and Daren Bascome, Dwayne De la Chevotiere, and Marilene Simons, Bonus niece Debra-Lee Bell, Bonus nephews Albert Joell Jr. and Kevin Sampson, special great niece Honor Minors and Kenneisha Smith-Crawford, special great nephew Kacey Smith, special great-great nephews Kes and Kyah Smith Godchildren: Fabian Bullen, Wanda Stuhlpfarrer and Maurice Steede, Bonus daughter ErvileneOuterbridge, special family friends – Marilyn Dyer, Judith Gilbert and family, Celeste and Arthur West, Joan and Brenton Burgess and Marv Jabbar and other great nieces and great nephews, other family too numerous to mention and friends too numerous to mention.