The year 2022 brought some people grief as they said a final farewell to loved ones due to natural and unnatural causes.
Every life is precious and our heart goes out to the family and friends who have been left to mourn their loss.
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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.
Advocate and president of the Barbados Cancer Society (BCS), Dorothy Cooke-Johnson has passed away.
The longstanding chair and activist, who worked diligently to raise awareness of all cancers, was a beacon of hope for many.
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Every day, as Barbadians, each of us gives a little of ourselves in the aid of a brother or sister. After all, it is, without doubt, a part of our DNA — an…