VIRGIL ROBERT COAKLEY
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Funeral Service for the late VIRGIL ROBERT COAKLEY AGE 71 YEARS of #3 Sunset Drive off West Bay Street will be held on Friday, June 19th, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Street. Officiating will be Father Glen Nixon assisted by Deacon Ricardo Demeritte. Interment will follow in the Catholic Cemetery on Infant View Road, Nassau Bahamas.
In addition to his parents, Virgil was predeceased by his siblings: Charles Leopold, Granville Alvin, Jr, & Kermit Hugh Coakley and Pandora Beverly Coakley Sands.
His survivors include the following: His children, Damian, Robert & Kendrice Coakley; Rudi Cleare, foster son and their mother, his former Wife: Patricia A. Miller Coakley; SIBLINGS: Telzena G. Coakley; Pamrica & Asa Ferguson; Dorothy & Hiram H. Lockhart; Elizabeth Carey;
AUNTS: Val Jean Virgil and Adeline Virgil; Sisters-in-law: Vernita & Antoinette Coakley; Nieces & Nephews: Julian & Elizabeth Coakley; Shervin Coakley; Kevin & Blon Hall; Garnett & Patricia Ellis; Sharon & Kevin Sands; Sharon Lockhart; Helen Thompson; Lisa Adderley; Garnell & Lynden Miller; Carolyn, Donna, Charles A., Jerome & Dion Coakley; Marie Symonette, Gregory & Allison Ferguson; Helene & Chandrice Ferguson; Shannon & Leroy; Braynen; Gina Sands Sherman; Janice Mackey; Cheryl & Brad Lightbourne; Melverne & Rev Mr Ricardo Demeritte; Deborah, Jean & Everette Bain; Myron & Charlene Lockhart-Bain; Charlann & Lavar Coakley; Jamal & Jaims Carey; Anthony & Sabrina Coakley; Dr Mitchell & Carla Lockhart; First Cousins Include: Marcia, Margo, Hansel, Andrea, Mahalia, David, Alton, Sharilyn, Telzena & Frozena Virgil; Michaela Storr, Myrna Wilson, Michelle Lundy, Lillian Rolle, Hester King, Elva Lorandos; Presley & Petral Virgil; Beatrice Clarke, Flora Hanna; Judith & Arthur Chase; Stafford & Joan Coakley; Bismark, Ursula Victoria, Catherine, Marie, Jerome, Jeffrey & “Tiny” Coakley; Dora Walker; Other Relatives & Friends: Pearline Gibson, Rebecca & Ralph Smith and the Sunday Lunch Bunch; Sir Winston “Tappy” Davis, Ernest & Marilyn Cambridge, William “Bill” & Sunny Edwards of St. Louis, Missouri; Sir Albert J. Miller, Gail Wisdom, Doris Bullard, Stephanie Ferguson, Gloria Crawford, Gary Symonette, Oscar Munroe, Andrew Newton, Joel Moxey, Eugene Culmer, Leoni Sweeting, Sir Burton & Camille Lady Hall, Rhonda Chipman Johnson, Eliza Wallace, Dorothy Lightbourne, Carolyn & Henry Rolle, Emeline Lockhart; Families of the late: Nathaniel Scott, Sybil Strachan, Lovely Coakley, Agnes Burnside, Marina Glinton, Arlington Wilmott; Roderick & Ronald Coakley; Joseph & Kenneth Cargill; Errol Pinder, Samuel Taylor; Stanley & Sam Coakley, and other descendants of Benjamin Coakley and Philip “Buddy” Coakley of Coakley Town, Andros, The Most Reverend Patrick C. Pinder, Msgr. Preston A. Moss, Father Glen Nixon, Father Oswald Ferguson, other Priests & Deacons of the Archdiocese of Nassau; the Benedictine Sisters of Saint Martin’s Monastery; Parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral including Team Members & Associates of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), Rosemary Coakley and Garnett Ellis (Virgil’s Holy Communion Minister while he was homebound); Nurse Marsha McQueen and her staff at Coastline Community Care Nursing Home Ltd where Virgil received superb, compassionate care for more than two years, and many other friends; He is also survived by his Estranged Wife: Ursula Johnson Coakley and her family.
Viewing will be held in the Halcyon Suite at Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium Ltd., Robinson and Soldier Road on Thursday, June 18th, from 10:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. and at the Church on Friday from 12:30p.m. until service time.
