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A writer and actor who championed film and theatre in Bermuda was remembered for her sparkling style and “a voice made for the stage”. Susanne Notman, a theatre devotee who liked to call top performances “champagne bubbles onstage”, became a driving ...

A veteran St George’s firefighter nicknamed “Captain Smokes” also ran a popular East End hardware store and sailed several times in the Newport Bermuda Race. His family said Robert Oatley, who died earlier this month, was “a St George’s man through a...

A veteran bus driver with a love of hospitality lived a life of service to others, his daughter has said. Sonia Howes said Sidney Simmons, who died earlier this month, “just loved being around people”. Mr Simmons volunteered for more than a decade fo...

Gregory Seymour, a singer who led the popular rhythm and blues group Burning Ice, was one of its few surviving members. The band, which hit its heyday in the 1970s, also enjoyed popularity overseas. Music historian Dale Butler’s book Music on the Roc...

A former photographer for the Bermuda News Bureau who left the island for a career in TV commercials and photography in Hollywood was an ambassador for the island, his family have said. Leonard Mocklow may have lived in the US but proudly sported the...

A champion for preventive medicine led the fight against diabetes in Bermuda – one of the island’s most rampant chronic diseases. Femi Bada was also a former chairman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association. Dr Bada advocated the use of alternative techn...

A veteran of the elite Royal Marine Commandos was also a prominent businessman at a well-known china, crystal and antiques shop. Major Peter Darling, who served nearly 30 years in the Marines, ran Bluck’s on Front Street with his brother, Lieutenant-...

A former general manager of the Bermuda Telephone Company helped to rewire the island’s phone system after he arrived in 1963. Daniel Mannus, who headed BTC from 1986 until 1991, was also a longstanding member of Hamilton Rotary Club and was presiden...

A civil rights champion and teacher was remembered yesterday for carrying on a family legacy of fighting for social justice as a leading member of the Progressive Group. Marva Phillips taught at primary schools and at what is now Sandys Secondary Mi...

The first Bermudian and first woman principal of the Whitney Institute Middle School was remembered by colleagues as a leader in education during the public school reforms of the 1990s. Gail-Anne Graham also chaired the Committee for Middle School Pr...