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Joseph I. Piper

Services will be Friday for Joseph I. Piper, who died Oct. 1, 2012.

He is originally from Antigua.

The memorial service is at 6 to 8 p.m. at Turnbull's Funeral Home Chapel.

The body will be cremated.

He was predeceased by his father, Joseph Piper, and his mother, Gertrude Piper.

He is survived by his loving and dutiful wife, Priscilla Piper; son, Joseph A. Piper; daughters, Sandra Brooks, Diahann Gill and Dejra Piper; grandchildren, Joseph A. Piper Jr., Shanika Piper, Shamara Brooks, Jahmere and Jada Gill; brothers, Neville, Edward, Astor and Eward; sisters, Cathleen, Cynthia, Ruthlyn and Gwendolyn; aunts, Geraldine Matthew and Alice Scott and family; cousins, Gladys, Pauline, Culture Man, George Matthew; nieces and nephews, Oliver, Ian, Marsha, Tiffany, Vernon, Lydia, Trevor, Kevin, Keinza, Kohylah, Sharlene, Louraine, Nekeisha, Ewarla, Ziv and Rilys, Arlene, Janet; sons-in-law, Zebo Brooks, Fred Gill; daughter-in-law, Vanessa Piper, brothers-in-law, Meryl, Byron Charlesworth and Dalton Sebastian, Bernard Douglas; sister-in-law, Eunipha Douglas; special friends, Jackie Rogers, Brother Collie, Ken Simmons, James Southwell, Dr. Odlum and family, the staff at the Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Center, Nyby and Bernard Douglas Jr., the Halpern family, Piper family of St. Croix; friends in the Smith Bay area, Schneider Hospital; the staff at Bolongo Bay, Mims and the staff of Mims bistro, Wilhelmina, Joseph Charles, Roberta, Charlie and the Sebastien family; Joseph Percival, Allan Brown, Lucine Grayman, Harry, K'yan Brooks, George and Rose Sebastian, David, Denise Frazier and Caprisha, Winston Demin and family, Denise McCoy and family; friends at Yacht Haven Grande; and other friends to numerous to mention.

Arrangements are by Turnbull's Funeral Home Chapel.

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