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A long-serving teacher and a lifelong reading advocate died at the weekend. Darnell Wynn, née Todd, was 62 years old. Ms Wynn spent more than two decades teaching English and literature at the high school and middle school levels. She also served a...

A community mentor and devoted curator of the Carter House Museum, one of Bermuda’s oldest homes and an historical treasure of St David’s, has died at 86. Dolores Harrison loved showcasing the historic 17th-century house and museum of the St David’s ...

A popular Bermudian singer who enjoyed a colourful career in the United States has died at 91. James Ellsworth “Al” Trott’s childhood dream of becoming a jazz singer landed him a stint with one of Bermuda’s top hotel circuit bands of the 1950s, calle...

One of Bermuda’s pioneering bodybuilders and fitness trainers has died at 85. Clifford Looby competed overseas as well as locally, rubbing shoulders with internationally known figures such as the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other friends included Ca...

The Reverend T. Wendell Foster passed peacefully at his home in New York last week after decades of service in the United States and Bermuda. It happens that I had the fortune of catching up with this mentor and his extended family during his visit t...

A prolific musician who set the tempo for one of the island’s hottest acts from the 1970s and 1980s, Burning Ice, has died at 71. A memorial jam session for drummer and singer Charles “Tao” Taylor, who died in June in Toronto, Canada, was held at the...

Leonard Teye-Botchway, a Ghanaian-born surgeon and former Olympic runner who gave up his athletic ambitions to devote himself to medicine, has died at 64. The father of three moved to the island in 1994 with his wife, Ronita, and pioneered ophthalmol...

A Bermudian artist who joined the Royal Navy in the Second World War and was assigned to top-secret work to crack Nazi codes has died. Pamela Darrell, the 93-year-old widow of Owen Darrell, a Bermudian who also saw wartime service in the Royal Navy, ...

James King, a former surgeon and political candidate who played key roles at some of the island’s top businesses, has died. Dr King was 80. Dr King spent the 1990s and 2000s as chairman of several boards, including Bermuda College, the Bermuda Teleph...

A master carpenter from the West End whose career spanned more than 60 years has died. Charles Rupert “Pine” Smith was 87. Mr Smith’s family said he was “hard-working, stubborn, opinionated, funny, current with all news, determined and immoveable”. ...

An artist and author who lived in Bermuda for decades and whose chronicles of her childhood became bestsellers in her homeland of Canada has died. Molly Critchley was 93. Ms Critchley, born and raised in Nova Scotia, lived for three decades in Bermud...

Dear Sir, Tony Astarita passed away last week. Most people in Bermuda would not recognise that name, but anyone who frequented the Little Venice Restaurant over the past 35 years would recognise the name “Crazy Tony”. Tony was not just a waiter for t...