Ursula Dainty-Corbin, Queenstown’s oldest female resident, passed away on Sunday at her home in Region Two.
Dainty-Corbin, who was 100, died of natural causes.
She was born on June, 11, 1921. She is survived by five of her children.
When she celebrated her birthday in June, her family threw her a grand celebration.
She was baptized at the St Bartholomew Anglican Church in Queenstown at the age of two. Shortly after, her parents moved to Georgetown. There, she attended the Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic School. At the age of 18, she moved to Vergenoegen, on the East Bank of Essequibo, where she attended the Philadelphia Scots School. She had worked at the Uitvlugt Sugar Estate, where she met the love of her life, the late Victor Hinds, who was an engineer on the sugar estate. Her union with Hinds produced three daughters. She was 20 years old when she got married to Hinds.
In 1955, she returned to her birth place at Queenstown, where she and her husband had built a wooden house. At the age of 35, her husband passed away, leaving Ursula a single parent. At that time she was a seamstress as well as a nursing assistant at the Suddie Public Hospital.
She later decided to re-marry and joined with Lenard Corbin, a spiritual leader, who was also a carpenter. The union produced three more children. Five of her children are alive.
One of her daughters, Carmen Hinds-Joseph, from Brooklyn, New York, said that she will always remember how jolly her mother was. She said her mother was an ardent reader of her Bible and she was a true role model to many persons in the village of Queenstown. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
