Funeral Service for the late Matriarch Estella Louise Zonicle nee Bell, aged 96 of Mount Royal Avenue and formerly of Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday 31st May 2025 at Bible Truth Ministries, Martin Close off Cowpen Road. Officiating will be Pastor Clinton Minnis assisted by other ministers of the Gospel. Interment will follow in Providence Baptist Church Mausoleum, Robinson Road.
Memorial Service will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday (TODAY) 29th May 2025 at Providence Baptist Church, Robinson Road.
Matriarch Estella Zonicle is Preceded in death by her Husband: Bishop Joseph Alexander Zonicle Sr.; Parents Fedora nee Johnson and Edward Bell; Son: Joseph Alexander Zonicle Jr.; Grandson: Jonathan Jodie Carroll; Granddaughters: Apphia Zonicle Neymour and Kevinique Shawanna Munroe; Great-Granddaughter: Eloise Marie Russell; Great-Grandson: Jarret Arthur McClain; Brothers: George, Bernard and Hubert Bell; Sisters: Hazel [Bell] Carey and Eugelean “Eugie” [Bell] Turnquest; Sisters: and Brothers In Law: Esther and George Zonicle, Celeta and Charles Zonicle; Nieces and Nephews: Fedora Bell and George Zonicle and Belva Zonicle; In-laws Eddie I. B “Frank” Claude and Lloyd Gardiner.
Left to cherish fond memories of Matriarch Estella are her Children: Twelve Daughters: Marilyn [Ambassador-at-Large, Retired], and Mellany [Director of Social Services, Retired], Zonicle, Josephine [Librarian, Retired] [Manny] Zonicle-Lopes, Christiana [Speech Therapist, Retired] [Dr. Julian] Russell , Deborah M. Zonicle CPA, Retired, Pauline [Special Education Teacher and Social Worker, Retired] Zonicle-Claude, Martha [Pastor Clinton] Minnis, [Executive Secretary, Retired], Dr. Samra [Family Medicine Specialist] [Pastor Roland] Zonicle-Newton, Clavia Superintendent (Bahamas Customs] [Samuel] McClain, Shernell Zonicle-Gardiner CPA, Sheena Zonicle [Primary School Teacher] and Wanza [Agriculturalist and Horticulturalist, Retired ][Kevin] Munroe]; Adopted Son: Jamal Taylor [Medical Sales Representative]; Grandchildren: Jonquill [Lavardo] Neymour, Andrew [Stephanie], Jason [Mindy] and Jamila Russell, Ophir Neymour, Gabrielle Wright-McKenzie, Charisma and Aneka Minnis, Dominic [Brittany] Newton, Theo [Dr. Anna], Alexander, Samia and Clavia McClain, Nachalah and Niké Gardiner, Josué [Jocelyn] and William Raymond, Joseph and Deborah Zonicle, Kevin Jr., Churton, Jurusha, Joshua and Joelle Munroe, Shekyra [George] Lightfoot, Ayden, Jayson and Dalani Taylor; Honorary Grandchildren: Addis Huyler, Dennis Brice, Danielle, Diajah and Dejah Brown, Daneah Bethel; Great-Grandchildren: Jaden and Jonathan Carroll, Lavaranae, Lanae, Lavaro, Lajuan and Laia Neymour, Judah, Naomi, Isaiah, Elijah, Aaliyah, Micaiah and Hannah Russell, Zion, Levi and Sophia Russell, Rayne, Blaise and Claire McKenzie, Lyon McClain, Kadin Gardiner and George Lightfoot Jr.; Nieces: Andrae Taylor, Linda Pinder, Machelle [Desmond] Sands; Vernice Smith, Montrea “Ginger” Brown; Freda Sands, Joanna Curry, Indira Bell; Fedora Kormed, Mandy Wynn, Edward Bell; Mable D. Gardiner, Dorothy Lunn; Ruth [Samuel] Rolle, Esther Vincent, Willamae Zonicle, Ellen Roberts, Virginia “Gene” Zonicle, Barbara Zonicle; Judith Hunt, Ivis [Wilfredo] Segura, Lydia [Marco] Wallace, Lillis Zonicle, Deserene [Philip] Farrington, Erica [Leroy] Henfield; Nephews: Bertie [Joan] Curry, Edward Carey; Clyde Fox, Sterling Charlton, William [Janice] Zonicle, Charles B. [Deborah] Zonicle, Glen [Cathy] Zonicle, Eden [Sabrina] Zonicle, Charles A. Zonicle Jr., Audley Zonicle, Carlton [Joan] Zonicle, Nelson, and Nathaniel Zonicle; A Host of other Relatives and Friends: Inter alia: Kemuel [Carnetta] Knowles [Godson], Patricia Dean [Goddaughter], Josue Raymond, David Neymour, Ondrey Mckenzie, the Families of Lucile Davis, Eleanor Steele, the late Velma Bain, Preston “Six” Turnquest, the late Priscilla Duncombe, Livingston (“Winks”) Johnson, The late Bertram Davis, the late Ruth Dean, Edith Hannah, the late Lewis Pinder; the Deans, the Johnsons, the Cambridges, the Woods, the Scavellas of Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera; Lizzie-Anne Taylor, the late Howard Bethel, Carlton Bethel, Dillon Bethel, the late Charles and Maud Carey; Spiritual and Community Family: Pastor Clinton Minnis and The Providence Baptist Church Inc. Family [Deacon Vivian Rolle, Margaret McPhee, et al], Pastor Geoffry Wood and the Temple Baptist Church Family, The Bahama Island Baptist Association, Pastor Anthony Darville and the Central Baptist Church Family, Eudeen and Paul Satten of Light of the World Ministries, Pastor Arlington Moss and Family, Family of the late Delores Russell, Mrs. Rose Newton and Family, Family of the late Edith Minnis, Mr. and Mrs. Herman and Nora McClain and Family, Family of the late Lloyd Gardiner, Family of the late Marina Pratt, The Right Honorable Perry G. Christie and Family, The Honorable Fred A. Mitchell, The Honorable Jomo Campbell, The Honorable Glenys Hanna Martin, The Families of the late Mrs. Ruth Clarke-Goodridge, K.S. and Dorothy Darling, the late Gladys Burrows, George and Fredricka McCartney, the late Winnifred Young, the late Jeremiah Arnette, Mary Bastian , Cynthia Lobosky, Pat Strachan, the late Marge Thompson, Moon McPhee, Clinton and Myrtle McCartney, Staff of McCartney’s Pharmacy, Judith Grant, Linda Major, Patricia Thompson, The Families of Mount Royal and Montrose Avenue, Ludlow, Kenilworth, and Wilton Streets; Special Thanks: Dr. Indira Minus Grimes, Dr. Crispin Gomez, Dr. Jeffrey Sweeting, Doctors Hospital and its Rehabilitation Department Team, Dr. Kitiboni Rolle Adderley, Nurse Anthia Harper and Happy Healing Home Care, Mrs. Earnestine Pinder, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bahamas Customs Department, Ministry of Social Services Information and Broadcasting, The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, the late Chef Whitfield [Carnetta] Saunders, Patrice Fawkes, Selina Hepburn, Pastor Ellison Greenslade and Bible Truth Ministries, and to those not named, inadvertently omitted, but whose contributions and support are in her Family’s hearts, divinely rewarded and eternally recorded.
May Her Soul Rest in Peace!
Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians & Crematorium, #44a Nassau Street on Friday 29th May 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and at the church on Saturday 31st May 2025 from 10:00 a.m. until service time.
