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Lucille Liverpool

Lauderdale Lakes, FL

February 28, 1928 - July 30, 2020

Lucille Liverpool Obituary

Barely missing becoming a leap year baby, Lucille Joycelyn Daphne Liverpool was born February 28, 1928, in the small town of Ithaca, Berbice, Guyana. The only child of Webster and Hilda (Cousin Avril) Cleaver, she was raised in a home of loving but strict adherence to discipline, school, and church. After moving to nearby New Amsterdam, her father ran a successful funeral home, and her mother took on extra jobs to send her to Berbice High, the top secondary school in her home of New Amsterdam. She used the values of hard work and family unity as guiding principles throughout her long, storied life. Lucille met her husband of 63 years, Herman, at a funeral. Cousin Iris Rodney served as the facilitator who transported the letters of courtship between the two. They dated for almost ten years before tying the knot quietly at a country church. They moved to England shortly after where she supported Herman in his studies and started their family. Their first son Hugh was born shortly after their arrival, but would later succumb to asthma at the age of 13. Upon the death of her father, Lucille returned to Guyana alone with Hugh and gave birth to her second child Lorraine. However, due to the civil unrest occurring in the country, she returned to England with the children and continued to build a life supporting her husband while continuing her own education. Lucille pursued several careers throughout her life, never afraid to take on the challenge of advancing her education and remaining educationally relevant. After graduation from Berbice High School, she became a nurse midwife, a career she continued after moving to England. She later followed another interest and earned a diploma in institutional management. When she returned to Guyana with her family in the early 1970s, she became director of catering services at Cyril Potter College of Education, where she served until she migrated with her family to St. Augustine, Florida, in the early 1980s. In St. Augustine, Lucille found herself in the dilemma of being overqualified for the jobs available, so she made the decision to return to school at the St. Augustine Vocational

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