BERMUDIAN journalist, author , artist, child care advocate and educat Jocelyn Kay (Motyer) Raymond Read died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 13. She was 77.

A former Mid-Ocean News journalist, Mrs. Raymond-Read was born in Paget on March 30, 1930

BTYER) RAYMOND-READ, born 30 March 1930 at Paget, Bermuda,

departed this life 13 August 2007

at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jocelyn was a journalist, artist, author,

educator and devoted parent, who leaves behind a

multitude of friends. Among them are her grieving husband, Robert Read,

children Michele (Russell MacKinnon) and

Jacques (Tara Joules), sister Jacqueline Blagrave (Rothesay, NB), brother

Arthur (Sackville, NB), numerous nieces

and nephews, and granddaughters Hazel Walling and Bee Campbell-Raymond.

She was predeceased by her first

husband, Richard Lattin

Raymond.

Jocelyn came to Canada to attend university in 1946, graduating from

McMaster University. She returned to Bermuda

and worked as a print and broadcast journalist with ZBM and the MidOcean

News, but moved to Toronto in 1952 for

postgraduate work in social work and child study. She taught at the

University of Toronto's Institute of Child Study,

and wrote a weekly column for the Globe and Mail on 'Living with Children'

from 1954 to 1964. Jocelyn and Richard

moved to Nova Scotia in 1964, where she was instrumental in bringing human

rights and childcare legislation to the

province. She taught in the education department at Mount Saint Vincent

University, as well as starting the

university's Early Childhood Education program. Jocelyn served on numerous

boards of directors in Halifax over the

years, but she will be most remembered for her mischievous wit, infectious

laughter and a deep concern for others

which did not desert her even in her final days. Funeral arrangements are

entrusted to Atlantic Funeral Home.

Funeral service will be held Friday at 2 pm at Saint Augustine's Church,

290 Purcells Cove Road, Halifax, Father John

O Scott presiding. No flowers by request, but donations in Jocelyn's

memory may be made to the Single Parent

Centre in Spryfield, or the Bermuda Aquarium.