Category Archives: Honorees 2019

Francis Louise Gibson

Dedicated, determined, caring and fun-loving are but a few words that accurately describe Francis Louise Brooks-Gibson, affectionately called “Louise”. However, the word that best fits her life is “SURVIVOR”. Mrs. Gibson, currently 86 years-old, has lived through many challenging events and happily lived to tell the tale. One of her first trying times came when […]

Cherise Evans Saunders

Every day we wake with a view of hope and faith. On March 15th 2015, scheduled for a routine hysterectomy, a surgery that took 8 hours with life changing results. During the post-surgery discussions she was informed by the surgical team that they had found unexpected complications and unfortunately she was experiencing Stage 3 Ovarian […]

Errin Storr

My name is Errin Storr and I am a 51-year old single mother of an adult son. I was born and schooled in New Providence, but decided to relocate to Grand Bahama once becoming a legal adult. Living in Freeport was a beautiful and truly enjoyable experience, but I eventually returned home to Nassau eighteen […]

Ivan Francis

My name is Ivan Francis, I was diagnosed with Kidney, Prostate and Lung Cancer in 2003. I began feeling pain in my chest, my feet and basically my entire body, started feeling week, tired and begin eating less for the next two or three years, I began taking different medications, but I only got worse. […]

Jody Knowles

Jody Knowles, is a true gem of a Woman, and the bubbly, dedicated wife to Dana Knowles her husband of eighteen years. They are the proud parents of three wonderful sons, eight year old twins David and Daniel, and six year old Dillon. In the Winter of 2016, during a routine monthly self examination, Jody […]

Callendar lewis

My father, Walter Callander, had an extraordinary genetic cancer condition called Li Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS). It is a very rare inherited gene, and those family members affected with the gene have a propensity to develop a variety of cancers, also called Sarcomas. This gene which my father carried, took his life at the early age […]

Zion Knowles

Zion is an enthusiastic, 10 year old, walking miracle. Zion is a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with leukemia 2012. She faced many challenges and obstables over several years. Still, Zion fought bravely to overcome the disease and was victorious. Her courageous battle gave her the confident, outspoken and sociable personality she has today. Zion […]

Ivqine Ingraham

I know that this opportunity must have been divine motivated, because I have been contemplating how I could use whatever means I can muster to help with a message of hope for those who have been diagnosed, planning to have surgery or have had and are now living with the life changing experience. Most particularly, […]