Islands People

Deaths of Islands People

Mgr J. A. L. Guerrero Monsignor Jose Ada Leon Guer rero, Chancellor of the Diocese of Agana and secretary to Bishop Flores, died in Guam on December 21, aged 50. He was born in Saipan.

He graduated from George Washington High School, Guam, in 1946, and studied for the priesthood at the Aquinas College, Michigan, and St Patrick’s seminary, Menlo

Park, California. He was ordained in June, 1955, and became a Papal Chamberlain with the title of mon signor in 1963.

Monsignor Guerrero was chaplain of the Guam Legislature. He was a member of the board of the Bank of Guam and of the board of trus tees of the Medical Centre of the Marianas. He is survived by his mother, two brothers and two sisters.

Mrs S. H. Yaeman Mrs Susan Mary Yaeman, who lived on Norfolk Island most of her life, died there on December 23, aged 72. She was born on the island.

In 1948 she married Eddie Yaeman, who survives her.

Mr P. W. Quintal Mr Percy William Quintal, a Nor folk Islander, who followed a num ber of callings, died on Christmas Day, aged 75. At various times he was a whaler, a plantation manager in the Solomons, a drover, a water side worker, a farmer and a soldier.

Elder Carnis Elder Carnis, of Unua, Malekula, New Hebrides, died recently. He was 100. He was 41 when he first went to school at his home village.

He then went to what is now Tangoa Bible School, South Santo. In 1926, he returned to Unua as elder, work ing with the bush people, and later setting up a school in the Big Nam bas area. He was also the first elder of Paton village, near Unua, Senator L. Faliu An American Samoa senator, Lualemana Faliu, aged 52, was shot dead while visiting the island of Savaii in Western Samoa in Decem ber. Senator Faliu was sleeping at a village, where he had taken the body of a man who had died in American Samoa, when he was killed. A man was later arrested.

Mr Neville Chatfield The death occurred in Grafton, NSW, in December of Mr Neville Chatfield, who was closely identified with the Pacific Islands before World War I. He was 91.

Mr Chatfield for 12 years until 1914, plied the Central and South Pacific as a “supercargo” (agent’s representative), in Burns Philp steamers and schooners, visiting almost every island in those areas.

Although he never returned to the Pacific after the war, he established in Sydney an importing-exporting business, and carried on, almost for the rest of his long life, a corres pondence with Island people. His memory for detail was quite extra ordinary, and Mr Chatfield wrote many articles and letters for PIM over the years, usually under the pen name of “Supercargo”. Most of his stories dealt with personalities and historical events surrounding the old Gilbert & Ellice Islands, and the Marshall, Carolines and Marianas in the German days.

He retired from Sydney to a Graf ton nursing home about three years ago.

Last October he was present at the unveiling of a plaque in Grafton to one of the BP ships he sailed in, the Induna, whose bones are on the bank of the Clarence River.

Mr Chatfield’s wife died in 1958 and he leaves two daughters. • In the Deaths of Island People in December PIM, it was reported that Mr Anthony George Thackeray Carver has died. His first name should have been given as Ashley.