The RAPHAEL Fam­i­ly are sad­dened by the pass­ing of Lyn­ton Raphael last week. He was orig­i­nal­ly from Gas­par­il­lo. In our lives, there have been few peo­ple as spe­cial as Lyn. He was some­one to whom we felt deeply con­nect­ed. Lyn pub­lished “Trac­ing One’s Fam­i­ly Tree” in the Sun­day Ex­press, June 18, 1983, en­cour­ag­ing fam­i­lies to un­der­take this task. Cel­e­brat­ing his life are his Wife: Yolan­da, Chil­dren: Mar­i­lyn, Stephanie, Ar­lene, Trudyann, Yosef, Gibral and Chen­zi­ra, Grand Chil­dren: Ka­reem, Jemile, Nya, Ju­dah, Ak­i­lah, Iusa, Nosaya­ba, Nari­ba, Azari­ah, David, Daniel, Sarah, Eli­jah, AJ Nicholas, Josi­ah and Jude, Great Grand Chil­dren: Hai­ley, Tris­tan, Sari­ah, Saidah, Za­kiyah, Se­lah, Zo­ra, Woodrow, Nasir, Samir, Samiyah and Aaliyah. Sib­lings: Clotil­da Nathaniel, Esme, Rawle, Ken­rick, Hugh, Ge­of­frey, and Kei­th Raphael. A memo­r­i­al ser­vice was held in Brook­lyn, New York, U.S.A.