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A teacher born and raised in Somerset was praised as a “West End warrior”. Maude Bassett, who has died, aged 102, was the deputy principal at Somerset Primary School but was devoted to West End Primary, where she started her teaching career in 1943. ...

A lifelong tourism ambassador and hotel worker known for old-fashioned Bermudian hospitality made a name for himself as Champagne Danny. Danny Gilbert was synonymous with the Elbow Beach Hotel in Paget. He devoted 56 years to the South Shore resort, ...

A St George’s ship’s pilot and shipwright risked his life as a small-boat captain during the Second World War. Edric Pearman, who was 104, and his late wife, Joyce, who died in 2016 after almost 75 years of marriage, were known as the island’s longes...

An engineer who headed a Bermuda telecommunications firm led turn of the century work to safeguard the island against the computer flaw dubbed the millennium bug. Gregory Swan, a top Belco engineer who later headed the Government’s telecommunications...

A former health and safety official who monitored construction sites was also a keen sportsman and helped found one of Bermuda’s best known rugby clubs. Harry Powell helped kick off Renegades Rugby Football Club in 1958, according to his friend John ...

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...