Retired nurse and golfer Pearl Phipps has died

Retired nurse and prominent golfer Pearl Phipps died Sunday night.

She was 98 years old.

Her husband, King's Counsel Frank Phipps, said today that she died peacefully at home.

She was a dedicated nurse and gave yeoman service in Jamaica where she was trained. She later migrated to England to join her husband who was studying law. While in England she was employed as a nurse.

On their return to Jamaica she worked as a nurse at the Princess Margaret  Hospital in Morant Bay, St Thomas. She also worked at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital and the Kingston Public Hospital.

Phipps described Pearl as a “loving wife and mother and one who was always ready and willing to help others”.

He said she was also an excellent golfer and was the captain of the female golf team at the Constant Spring Golf Club in Jamaica for two years.

She played in golf tournaments in almost every Caribbean country and won many trophies. He said she also participated in a golf tournament in Canada.

"After 70 years of marriage, separation is painful,” Phipps lamented.

She is also survived by her daughter, attorney Kathryn Phipps, who is a diplomat and Jamaica's former Ambassador to Cuba; sons, Donald and Matthew; two grandchildren; and sisters, Dr Constance Haughton Jently and Ann 'Peaches' Baugh Dorsett.

-Barbara Gayle

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