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Silvanie McCarthy remembered as kind, hard-working mom
Hugh Dunbar and his wife Joy Rivers-Dunbar with Pearl McCarthy, sister of Silvanie McCarthy.
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October 7, 2023

Silvanie McCarthy remembered as kind, hard-working mom

Silvanie Daphnie McCarthy was on September 30 remembered as a kind, strong, hard-working mother who was well-loved by people in her community of Red Ground, Cavaliers district in St Andrew.

McCarthy, who passed on August 19, 2023, was 80 years old.

Family and friends who gathered at the thanksgiving service for her life at Cavaliers Church of God in Red Ground, reflected on her many outstanding attributes, among them her love for family, animals and ability to cook.

“She was best cook in the community,” her friend Cynthia Daley stated in the eulogy, adding that people passing by McCarthy’s home would stop on inhaling the aroma from her kitchen.

“She worked very hard to take care of her children, operating a shop at her house selling pudding, toto, fish, and fried sprat, among other things,” she said.

Daley also recalled that McCarthy raised cattle, goats, and chicken, while making straw bags for sale.

McCarthy was born in Essex Hall, St Andrew, to Lydia Williams. She was the eighth of nine children and attended Essex Hall Elementary School.

Eventually she meet Sinclair Bell and the union produced three children — Bobeth, Kirkwood, and Venice. In later years she gave birth to Kesha Satchell who “became her new ‘Gucci handbag'”.

Determined to do even better for her family, McCarthy went to the United States to work and made annual trips home in December with the obligatory barrel from which she would sell and give away items.

“She loved music and used to keep lots of parties,” Daley said, adding that her friend particularly loved Jamaican singer Carlene Davis’s version of American Paul Kelly’s Stealing Love On The Side.

Following the service McCarthy’s body was interred at the family plot in Essex Hall.

Kehmel Nelson comforts Lorriane Smith, niece of Silvanie McCarthy.
Mellanie Daley Stewart (right) assists her mom Cynthia Daley as she delivers the eulogy at the thanksgiving service for her friend Silvanie McCarthy at Cavaliers Church of God in Red Ground district, St Andrew, on September 30, 2023.Photos: Joseph Wellington
Bobeth Bell-Falconer reflects on the life of her mother Silvanie McCarthy during the thanksgiving service. Beside her is family friend Doreen Prendergast.
Pall-bearers take the coffin with the body of Silvanie McCarthy from Cavaliers Church of God in Red Ground district, St Andrew, on September 30, 2023.
Venice Bell Nelson carries a wreath to the hearse following the thanksgiving service for the life of her mother Silvanie McCarthy on September 30, 2023.
Silvanie McCarthy’s daughter Erica Satchell Gayle (left) is comforted by her cousin Gaye Satchell-Lennon.
Family friend Sophia Howell tends to Jamarie Gayle during the thanksgiving service for the life of his grandmother Silvanie McCarthy on September 30, 2023.

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