Funeral Service for the late Rosaline Gertrude Knowles-Johnson (Retired Nurse) aged 91 years of Robinson Road will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday 1^st March 2025 at Holy Cross Anglican Church, Highbury Park, Soldier Road. Officiating will be Rev’d. Dr. Ethan Ferguson assisted by Fr. Berkley Smith. Interment will follow in St. Margaret Church Cemetery, Kemp Road.

Rosaline is preceded in death by her son: Stanton Barrington Johnson; sisters: Shirley Knowles, Dot Rodgers (William), Dolores Sherman (Brooks), and Patricia Jervis (Leonard); brothers: Clifford Knowles (Maude) and Gurth Knowles (Della), Rudolph Bruce Gladstone Johnson. 

Rosaline is survived by her beloved Children: Christine van der Linde (Martin), Valarie Johnson, and Lee Johnson (Rev. Willish); Grandchildren: Krista Wilson (Kirk), Anthony Marrevee, Analise Johnson, Uriel Johnson, and Abigail Johnson; Great-Grandchildren: Christina Haven, Chelsea Wilson, Kirk (KJ) and Dallas Wilson; Sisters: Eleanor Elliott (Robert) and Anita Cooper (Paul); Nieces and nephews: Leo, Sidney (Rose), Jaqueline (Davis), Terrance, Don, Ginger (Grant), Judy (deceased), Michael, Jill, and Gina Rodgers, Christopher Sherman (Minez), Lenny (deceased), Lena, Anthony, Marva, and Michael (deceased), Jervis (Michelle Cargill, Garland (deceased), and Stephen Elliott; Gurth, Debbie, and Keith Knowles (Nicky), Edward, Theresa (Dennis), and Kevin Cooper; and numerous grandnieces and nephews, and Great Grand Nieces and Nephews;  A loving godmother to Merissa Mason Smith, Arlene Barry, and Darlene Smith; Cousins: Dollie Pople and family, Hall family (Grand Bahama) Britton Family, Rutherford family, Carroll family, Alfred Roderick Hall and family, Patrick (Eula) Edwards and Johnson family (Sutton St.); Neighbours: Nixon/Thompson family, McKinney & Curry Family; Rosaline had many close friends who were like family, that held a special place in her heart; Friends: Nurse Philabertha Carter, Judy Wood and Clarice Forbes, and her extended family and friends, including Eulease Munroe and family, the Holy Cross family, Sutton Street family, Freetown Lane family, Johnson family, Fields family, Knowles family, Cooper family, Jervis family, Elliott family, Rodgers family, Sherman family, Hall family, Bostwick family, Smith family, Powell family, Evans family, Ritchie family, Carey family, Collie family, Sands family, Cartwright family, Dallas and Veronica Wilson family, Bain family, Brookes family, Carroll family, Marrevee Family, Bahamas Public Officers Choir, Sadie Curtis Primary School, ACW  Holy Cross Church, Girl Guides Association, Devco Customer Service Dept., the Rotary Club of Grand Bahama, Retired Nurses Guild, Father Norman Lightbourne and Rev’d Dr. Ethan P.J. Ferguson, the Doctors, nurses and staff of the Female Surgical Ward ll and Private ward of the Princess Margaret Hospital; Appreciation to her caregivers and devoted and close supporters; Anita Cooper, Marva Jarvis, Samuel Jarvis, Patrick Jarvis, Karen Jarvis, Theresa Cooper, Edward Cooper, Debbie Knowles, Gurth Knowles, Nurse Carter, Mrs. Smith, Lynette Jarvis, Naomi Lockhart Jervis, Ms. Theresa, Maria Ferguson, Christine and her devoted, dedicated and loyal daughter Valarie Johnson.

The family acknowledges that Rosaline touched the lives of many persons.  Therefore, if your name does not appear in this obituary, we humbly offer our sincere apology and thank you for your love and support of our dearly departed.

May Her Soul Rest In Peace!

Friends may pay their last respects at Bethel Brothers Morticians and Crematorium, #44a Nassau Street on Friday 28^th February 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and at the church on Saturday 1^st March 2025 from 9:00 a.m. until service time.