Jim­mie Bar­cant (for­mer­ly Se­heult) cel­e­brat­ed her 100th birth­day on Ju­ly 22. Her daugh­ter Crys­tal Bar­rett, grand­chil­dren, great grand­chil­dren, oth­er fam­i­ly and friends in Lake­land, Flori­da joined in the cel­e­bra­tions. Her son Roger Bar­cant and his wife Eva crossed the Pond from Lon­don, Eng­land to join them for the grand mile­stone. Yves Guil­laume flew up from Trinidad to rep­re­sent the Se­heult clan, to­geth­er with Bren­dan O'Con­nor and wife Ce­cile from Texas, as well as Tony Se­heult from Tam­pa, with his wife Mar­cia and moth­er Rose­mary, Bar­cant's sis­ter-in-law.

Bar­cant and her late hus­band Mal­colm Bar­cant, best known for his life's work in cre­at­ing the An­gos­tu­ra Bar­cant But­ter­fly Col­lec­tion in Trinidad, had em­i­grat­ed to Lake­land in their re­tire­ment years to be with Crys­tal and her fam­i­ly. They re­mained in touch with their many close friends and fam­i­ly in Trinidad who will re­mem­ber Bar­cant's love of life and gen­eros­i­ty of spir­it. In true Tri­ni fash­ion she was an en­gag­ing sto­ry­teller en­riched by won­der­ful mem­o­ries of life in a chang­ing Trinidad over the decades-from her birth in Port-of-Spain in 1911.

Her com­mu­ni­ca­tion and oth­er phys­i­cal skills have un­der­stand­ably weak­ened in re­cent years, and her in­de­pen­dence was cur­tailed since she very re­luc­tant­ly stopped dri­ving at age 90, but her smiles re­mained. Those who at­tend­ed en­joyed the cel­e­bra­tions. Her chil­dren ac­knowl­edged and thanked the many friends and fam­i­ly who sent greet­ings from Trinidad, Bar­ba­dos, St Lu­cia as well as oth­er parts of US, Cana­da, Eu­rope and Aus­tralia.