Mrs
Bijou Edith Ernestine Bidwell Nee Peters 1927 – 2014
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| Bijou Peters (Photo credit: Gamcotrap) |
Bijou Edith Ernestine Bidwell Nee Peters was the
eldest daughter of the late Mr Lenrie Peters and Mrs Kezia (Broderick) Peters
of Bathurst (now Banjul), The Gambia.
She was born on the 29th of
March 1927 in Freetown, Sierra Leone and educated in her school days at St.
Mary’s Anglican Primary School and Methodist Girls High School, under the
educationist Mrs Norah Senior, MBE and missionary from Somerset, UK. She was
Head Girl and passed the senior Cambridge School Certificate Exam.
She died on February 12, 2014 at 86 years of age.
Prayers where held at St. Paul’s Parish Church, Fajara and buried at the Banjul
Cemetery on Monday, March 3, 2014.
