Violet, Mrs. Brown, "Grammy", and, "My Mommy" (to her three children) were the most usual names you would hear in reference to the most loving, caring, determined (even stubborn-in a very good way), neatest, and, hardest-working moter-of-them-all, to those who knew her.

Born on stsurrup Cay, Berry Island on the 18th day of December, 1925 to the very proud Lillian and Granville Brown, she was a markedly beautiful baby girl, who they proudly named 'Violet Antoinette' (Brown).

This third of three children, at that time, arrived in the Berry Island because Lillian's husbad, Granville, was stationed there as the lighthouse keeper for the Island at that time (his three children were born in THREE DIFFERENT ISLANDS); Violet, as it turned out, was always proud of that fact.

Lillian (Mother) has to return to Nassau after her beloved husband died unexpectedly in a lighthouse accident shortly after Violet's birth. This unforunate accident left Lillian with three children/offsprings (Earl, Yvonne and Violet) to nuture, care-for, school and raise, basically, on-her-own. However, their father, Granville did leave the family very well-off and provided-for, financially, through his Pension Plan, etcetera. The household situation changed for the family when Lillian met and eventually marreid her second husband, Ivan Jordan. This union brought a fourth child (Violet's favorite brother- if I could say that, and a life long friend, Bernard)into the homestead. While going through the Catholic Schooling System with her siblings, Violet exhibited an exemplary aptitude, academic seriousness and dedication to her studies. This, comforting and favorable overall situation, prevailed for the formative adolescent and early adulthood period of Violet and her three Sibilings life.

Violet became a teacher in the Catholic System after graduation. This was fairly easy for her for at least one or two good reasons; she lived only about one hundred yards down the hill from Saint Francis Xavier Church and School, and, she attended both. She was VERY INTELLIGENT, SMART AND BEAUTIFUL; some people (only a very few now) still remember her didication, and abilities, in this most challenging, and spiritually rewarding, field of work. She would be the first to tell you that it was not work for her, but a true dedication, and, " a pleasure " to boot!!!

Violet taught school for a while, in theis well-known area and environs, but, then moved on to other fields of wor/employment, including waitressing, Professional Bartender, then as a Casheier in the rather high class Montagu Beach Hotel and Spotless Laundry being her last active employment.

During this period of Violet's life she met a handsome, talented and professional musician by the name of Frederick Alfred Munnings. They got to know and love each other in spite of the mores of the times and, they had two wonderful children (Michael Alfred and Janet Leanora Seymour nee Munnings) from this union. She married Wellington Adderley, but that union did not last long and there were no offspring/children from the marriage. A third child was, in fact, welcomed by her and her family when Celeste Marie Brown was born.

It is amazing how people (nearly without exception) seem to love and show respect to/for Violet, as far back as you can remember. Just being in her presence would seem to bring on a sense of ease and even happiness. This is surely due to the way she was always smiling and friendly and most of all respectful of the people she met and had dealings with in most of her life activities and in her work. She learnt that respect and decorum is always the way to behave, as she was trained by her mother (Mother), and, she trained her children that same way, emphatically.

Violet always exhibted and showed great love! She LOed her God, and the Holy Spirit in particular. She loved her children and always wished the very, very best for them in her talk and in the musings and poetic endeavors, a which she was rather adept. But, she had a most intoxicationg, sanquine and ebullient fervor and cheerfulness towards her Grand, and Great Grand, Children;OOOHHH BOY!! For example, she, with single minded purpose, and THE GREATEST LOVE, decide to take and raise her daughter's last child (Scottie) at the age of 13 days at her ripe age of Sixty Three...WAIT, Isaid, at the ripe/advanced age of Sixty Three!! As you see, or mite note, the term OLD was not. never utilized here, because she never, for one minute, believed that she would not be ABLE  to do so: Not with her great belief in GOD ALMIGHTY, JESUS CHRIST and her HOLY SPIRIT! gUESS wHAT: sHE DID IT!!! sCOTTIE IS NOW tWENTY fIVE yEARS oLD.... Old... Do the MATH!! She Died at the RIPE OLD AGE of 88 EIGHT EIGHT!!!Scottie was at the foot of her death bed with the look of TRUE AMAZEMENT that she could accomplished a feat which seemed to be TOO AMIBITIOUS at the time, BUT, SHE DID IT!!! PRAISE GOD, PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!

Violet worked hard all the time, even when she was not employed: she would get up early in the morning and spread her nbed, make breafast, and then when people of the house would leave for school (in the earlier days) and or work (in the later years) she would begin her daily (all day) routine of thorough circular (it seems) cleaning and polishing the house and contents, etc., etc., etc... "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" she would say with emphasis, when questioned.

About two years ago, Violet was hospitalized with what the doctors diagnosed as cancer and gall stones. It came as a complete shock to the family because she did not exhibit any symptome of these, especially the big one: cancer! The family was more than concerned, and started some very serious praying for VIOLET, MOMMY, GRAMMY, while pursuing further info/facts and MUCH PRAYERS on this terrible news. Suffice it to say that Violet only needed a basic procedure for the gall stones, and, a splint, implanted for a couple days, and with its subsequent remova;, no further incidence, nor issuses were experienced since. The eldest son (Michael) refused to sign-off on this cancer-related surgery, based on the situation decribed at that time! This outcome was, we believe, a direct result of prayers one day before the doctor's recomended surgery, and the report that she only had two to three months to live: NO CANCER, NEVER HAD CANCER!!

Thanks to hands-on prayers on her hospital bed after receipt of two doctor's reports with graphs and diagrams of the supposed maligancy! We received expressions of amazemend from those same two teams of doctors after their final (specifically requested) triple-check of their patient, Violet Antoinette Brown-Adderley.

Violet Antoinette Brown-Adderley was indeed WORTHY OF PRAISE, for this, her stoicism, and many other attributes and qualities!!!!

This trait of stoicism and long-suffering was most pronounced in Violet due to a very long, rewarding and trying life! This was again shown in how she died within one day of exhibiting any sign that she might have been suffering of/from any form of illness! She died in peace and with a most pleasant look about her that was REMARKABLE to those who saw her in death: SHE DID NOT SUFFER! THANK GOD!