- Olga Lopes-Seale
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Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, DA, GCM, MBE, BSS (December 26, 1918 – February 4, 2011)[1] was a Guyanese-born Barbados-based social and community worker, radio broadcaster and singer.
Life
Born in Guyana as Olga Lopes she worked as a broadcaster for Radio Demerara (where she acquired the nickname "Auntie Olga")[2] before migrating to Barbados with her Barbadian husband, Dick Seale.[3]
In Barbados, she worked for the Barbados Rediffusion Services Limited (now Starcom Network) and was active in community work. In the 1940s and 1950s she was known as "the Vera Lynn of the Caribbean".[4]
In 2005, she was made a 2005 Dame of St. Andrew.
On December 9, 2010, she fell at her home and broke her hip, suffering multiple fractures,[5] leaving her unable to continue her charity work for the Needy Children's Fund.
Death
Lopes-Seale died on February 4, 2011, aged 92 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.
References
- ^ Barbados Nation Online: "Dame Olga Lopes-Seale is dead"
- ^ "'Auntie Olga' still going strong in Barbados", Guyana Chronicle, March 12, 2001
- ^ "Dame Olga Lopes-Seale". Caribbean News Agency (CANA). 4 February 2011. http://www.cananews.net/news/124/ARTICLE/57267/2011-02-04.html. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Olga Lopes-Seale: Our Energetic Humanitarian
- ^ Auntie Olga in QEH with broken hip
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- Guyanese singers
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