Ionie Alice-Maude Phillips (Age 96)

Sunrise:  3rd June 1930 (Antigua)

Sunset: 23rd June 2026 (Georgia, USA) 

Funeral Service:  Conyers Church of God, 1824 Hwy 138 NE, Conyers, GA, 30013 

Video Link:  All broadcasts for Conyers Church of God - Conyers, GA  

Date:   Saturday, 11 July 2026

Time:  10 AM-11 AM

Interment:  Gilbert Memorial Methodist Church Cemetery, St. Phillip's, Antigua

Photo Credit: Facebook

Ionie was the beloved wife of the late Douglas Alfred Richard (D.A.R.) Phillips, one of Antigua and Barbuda’s pioneering businessmen. Together they built a life grounded in faith, family, hard work, and service to their community.

She was predeceased by her beloved sons Everton Phillips, Derrick Phillips, and Winston “Felix” Phillips. She leaves to cherish her memory her daughters Colette Phillips, Roma Phillips Spencer, Rita Phillips Fernandez, and son Victor “Patt” Phillips; twenty-five grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, extended family members, and dear friends whose lives she touched immeasurably.

Sunrise:  21st May 1970 (Freetown, St. Phillip, Antigua)

Sunset: 21st May 2026 (Uniondale, New York) 

Funeral Service:   Raymond Funeral Home, 5 Wall Street, Norwalk, CT 

Date:   Tuesday, June 9, 2026 

Time: 12:00 to 1:30 PM  

Viewing: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon  

Interment:   Private burial at Riverside Cemetery.  

Repast:    268 Culloden Road, Stamford, CT 06906  

Theodore Montgomery Lennox Edwards, known to most as Lennox and to those who loved him as Lenny, passed away on his birthday in Uniondale, New York. 

He was born in Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda, the son of the late Ogden Edwards and the late Aldona Martin-Ward. He was raised by a village, shaped by a community, and carried Antigua with him everywhere he went.

Lennox was a man with genius in his hands. Not the kind measured by grades or credentials, but the kind that sees a broken thing and already knows how to fix it. He learned the art of baking from Mr Warner, the village baker who recognised something in him worth teaching. An unofficial adopted son of the Chatham family in Freetown, where he spent most of his days before leaving Antigua. He was close friends with Squasha and Prento, who were, as some fondly remembered, always seen together, and where you saw one, the other two were close behind. Usually, he would be in the front, fearless, going about their merry way. 

As a boy, he and his childhood friend Ewart Hughes ran a lime business together: walking to Mellanson paddock to pick limes, squeezing fresh limes in bottles and selling the juice to the Half Moon Bay Hotel nearby, and splitting every dollar 50/50. That was Lennox. Find an idea, work it with someone you trust, and share the reward.

In April 1986, he migrated to the United States with his uncle, Wycliffe Gomes, at his grandmother's direction, welcomed by his aunt, Rosemary, in Norwalk, Connecticut. He found his footing on Long Island, New York, and eventually built his own landscaping and handyman service business, which he named Caribbean Soul LLC. His clients did not just hire him. They trusted him. His work was precise, his standards were high, and if a job did not satisfy the client, it did not satisfy him.

His community knew him as quiet at first, then fearless. He did not follow the majority when he disagreed. He made up his own mind and stood determined. He was as tough as steel and fearless. He was also the one who scanned a room for whoever needed to smile and found a way to make it happen. Everything with intention.

He grew up attending the Wesleyan Holiness Church in Freetown with his grandmother and the Church of God of Prophecy with his mother. He was a proud member of the Boys Brigade. His faith became something personal and wide over the years. He kept coming back to the book of Peter: stay grounded, endure, and do not be moved. 

Lennox leaves behind five children: Dana and Christopher, Avian, Armani, and Avant Edwards. He is survived by his siblings Randy and Shaneca Edwards and Anique Gomes; aunts Rosemary Ralph and Margaret Martin; uncles Austin Gomes and Colin “Wanga” Martin, his step-father Calvin Ward of Freetown; a wide family across the Edwards, Charles, Gomes, Cole of All Saints, Martin lines and the Sagna’s of Senegal Africa and a community of friends who will not forget him. 

He came into the world on May 21. He left on the same day. That is not a coincidence. That is a completed circle. 

Sunrise:  28th August 1989 

Sunset: 4th February 2026 

Funeral Service:

Bethesda Seventh Day Adventist Church, Bethesda Village, Antigua

Date:  Thursday, 12th March, 2026

Time: 10 AM

Interment:   Bethesda/Christian Hill Community Cemetery.

It is with deep sorrow and much Love that we mourn the passing of ZAMIR AMIR O'GARRO of Bethesda Village who passed suddenly on 4th February, 2026 at SLBMC at the age of 36yrs.

He was the son of the late Donna Armstrong of Bethesda Village and Joseph Benjamin O'Garro of Upper Fort Road.

He was the brother of Cindy Benn - Gore, Jody Benn, Deno and Anneica Jarvis
Zamicka,  Tashawn, John, Karim, Andrea and Patrice O'Garro   No. 257 Cpl. Isarda O'Garro, Erica O"Garro Menzies, Darren Murphy and the late Abasic Koaby O'Garro and the loving uncle to their 43 children.

He was the Partner of Queisha Gieger and the stepfather of Kebrea Piper 

He was the nephew of Ruthlyn Martin, Gwenthlyn and Withfield Armstrong, Millicent Dover, Frances Applewhaite, Geraldine Kentish, Helen Harris.
George, Aubrey and Alison O'Garro and cousin to all of their children.

He was a very close cousin to Charlene Jackson, Kathnel Black, Jamil Josiah and their children.

He was the Great Uncle to Collyanna and Yannakyi Grigg, Blessings and Eliyah Patrick, Serenity, Jacquante and Jaharee O'Garro

He was the adopted son of Shawn Richards, alias Ras I, better known as Pupa and the staff of Ories Restaurant and Bar.

Also mourning is His closest Friend and Confidant, Emelda Olivette Martin and Family

He was a close friend of the Staff and inmates at HMP. If your name was not mentioned, it was not intentional

May his soul continue to rest in Peace Eternal.