Dr Dorothy Cooke-Johnson was yesterday remembered as a woman who lived life fully, unselfishly and offering hope to the hopeless. Her son Christopher Cooke-Johnson told mourners gathered at St Peter’s Parish Church for the service of celebration and thanksgiving of her life and those watching the live stream, that apart from being his mother and supporter he was most awed by “the role she played in other people’s lives, often …
The decades of commitment to the national cancer fight by Dr Dorothy Cooke-Johnson will be inscribed in this country’s history books, but the role she played in the life of her son Chris Cooke-Johnson, will forever be etched in his heart and memory.In an emotional tribute to his mother who passed away on August 14, at age 81, Chris, during a funeral service on Thursday, said the founder and longstanding chair of the Barbados Cancer Society (BCS) was also “a father” to him.Chris told those gathered at the St Peter’s Parish Church that his father Peter Cooke-Johnson died of stomach cancer in 1976, three weeks after the birth of his son.