Adina Sophia Esson

Adina Sophia Esson nee Smalling , aged 98, of Sebring Florida, Mineral Heights, Clarendon and Mountainside St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Transitioned peacefully at home in Sebring, Florida on Friday 9 ^th April 2021. Adina was born to Charles Smalling and Amelia Hay on the 27 ^th January 1923 in St Elizabeth, where she lived for a significant part of her life. She married Clarence Esson, and together they had 11 children, whom she cared and nurtured.  She was a firm disciplinarian, she had an indominable courage and worked tireless to help her children gain a good standard of life and education. She was a devoted wife and mother, a homemaker, who enjoyed cooking and entertaining anyone who she came visited her home or whilst serving in the community.  She was a seamstress, a true fashionista way ahead of her time, dressing her 8 girls in fashion, which were designed and constructed by her. Adina was an active member of her community, serving in the Mountainside Methodist church, where she actively practiced her Christian faith, serving in roles over the years including choir member, congregational steward, Sunday school superintendent and mentoring young ladies in the church, some of whom still service in the community and the Methodist church today. She moved to Mineral Height, Clarendon to live with her daughter Joan after her husband passed away.  She loved travelling and spent time in the USA and Canada visiting with family and friends, returning to Jamaica often. In her later years she settled with her children in Sebring Florida. Adina was a matriarch extraordinaire, outspoken, but kind and gentle, willing to provide sound advice and guidance to anyone. She enjoyed indulging her grandchildren and great grandchildren and they were as devoted to her, as she was to them. Her sharp wit kept her family thoroughly entertained and her sense of humor could quickly defuse any difficult situation. In her later years she spent her time regaling her family with stories from her childhood, praying, reading and playing a mean game of cross word puzzle, with anyone who dared to take her on.  She is survived by children: Anthony, Vera, Beril, Una, Claudette, Godfrey, Lorna, Noel and Loraine.  Twelve grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. She was preceded by her late husband: Clarence, daughters; Florence and Joan, grandchildren: Arlene and Horace.May her soul rest in peace and light perpetual shine on her.

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Arrangements entrusted to:

Stephenson-Nelson Funeral Home

4001 Sebring Parkway

Sebring, FL 33870

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