Edith Abioseh Short

Nee Pratt

The family announced the death of Edith Abioseh Short, nee Pratt, of 8 Bushey House Chelsfield Groove Park, London (United Kingdom), and 40 MacDonald Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone. She left us on 25th November at the age of 63.

She survived by her children: Rev. Terrence & Dorothy Knox-Goba, Augustine & Emilia Turay, Wilkeley Short, Lawrence & Hawa Jarret.

Grandchildren: Margret, Perez, Maurice, Pazia, Pazel, and Esther.

Aunties: Tunde Macauley, Phylinda Sawyer, Agnes Pratt, Dorothy Ashley, Princess Williams, Pearl Scott, Gloria Nelson-Williams, Anita & Henrietta Marcus-Jones, Linda Bishop, Annie Maude Rassin Wurrie, and Aunty Alaba.

Uncles: Bankole Pratt, Bredian Jengo.

Cousins: Theo & Salome Edwards; Onike Pratt; Iris, Andy, Lydia, and Phylicia Pratt, Davidson & Phylinda Peters-John, Leslie Pratt, Ayo Pratt, Samuel & Marian Beckley, Femi & Claude Campbell, Abigail Pratt, Irene Shawdikeh Davies, Raymond Williams, Ajua Dixon, Arthur Williams, Philip Tunis, Marcus Williams, Iyamide, Duro, Ivan, Ivy, Princess, Tola Richards, Helen King-Scott, and several others.

Nieces and nephews: Hannah, Admaya, Denis, Emelie, and others.

Other relatives: Rachel Reffell & Family; Simah Kargbo & Family; the Williams; Pratt family of Wellington; Short; Reed; Marcus-Jones; Jarret-Coker, Jarret family of Lumley; A. R. Wurie & Family; Fornah family of Hastings; Jengo Walters of Circular Road; and the Dauphine family of Kent.

Friends: Founding members of Bayconfields Cooperative Union, Residence of 37, 39, 42, 44, 47, and 49 MacDonald Street, in Freetown.

Funeral Services will be held at St. Mary Magdalene RC Church, Brockley London, at 12 Noon, and St John the Evangelist Church Brookfield, Freetown at 2:00 PM on Wednesday 30th December 2020. Burial is at Groove Park Cemetery, London, United Kingdom.

Apologies for any omission of Names as you are all Important.

*All COVID protocols must be observed.

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Edith Abioseh Short (nee Pratt)

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