Cynthia Rodriques passed away on October 23, 2020. She was born on March 17, 1932 to Pauline Owens and Egbert Stewart in Richmond Green, St Mary, Jamaica. After attending primary and secondary school in Jamaica, Cynthia embarked on a two-week journey by sea to London England where she married and continued her studies to become a Head Nurse. When the nursing shortage hit the US, Cynthia was offered the opportunity to move her family to the America, first moving to New York then on to New Jersey. In the 70’s the nursing board required that all Registered Nurses obtain a bachelors degree. Cynthia, enrolled in Jersey City State College and quickly obtained her BSN Degree at almost 50 years old. As we understand it, Cynthia achieved the highest score in the state for prescription and medicine decoding. In 1986, Cynthia built her dream forever home and moved to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Cynthia had a passion for books and black history. Cynthia spent many hours at the local library reading and studying. Cynthia studied ancient African and Egyptian history and even taught herself the language of hieroglyphics. In addition, Cynthia combed through many old books and manuscripts to delve deeply into the Bible and GODs word. Everyday Cynthia would pray and meditate. As part of her prayers, Cynthia would be sure to lift up her children and family to the LORD. She loved the LORD.
Cynthia also loved reggae music and most especially Bob Marley's songs. She would tap her feet and sing along to all the songs especially Three Little Birds, which was her favorite. Cynthia is a naturalist so she grew almost everything in her backyard in Florida, where she has 3 varieties of mangoes, an ackee tree, yellow yam, a budding coconut tree, gungo peas, just to name a few. The backyard was definitely her happy place. She would sit out there for hours.
Cynthia is preceded in death by her mother, Pauline Godden and father Egbert Stewart. She is survived by her sisters, Gwendolyn Smith, Evelyn Godden, Delta Young, and brother Neil Godden; son Ian Thomas, daughters Michelle Rodriques and Jennifer Jordan; grandchildren Matthew Thomas (Jennifer), Helen Thomas, Tiana Thomas, Ayesha Thomas, Christina Watson, Mackenzie Jordan, Michael Jordan II; and a host of great grandchildren, nephews and nieces, other family members and
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