{"id":2190,"date":"2007-06-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/connie-mark-wolmers-girls-guardian-2007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:59:19","slug":"connie-mark-wolmers-girls-guardian-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/connie-mark-wolmers-girls-guardian-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Mark, Wolmer\u2019s Girls \u2014 Guardian obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2007\/jun\/16\/guardianobituaries.obituaries\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 16, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON \u2014 The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Connie Mark recorded that she \u201cwas educated privately at Wolmer\u2019s Girls\u2019 School (Harry Belafonte attended the nearby boys\u2019 school).\u201d She died on 3 June 2007, aged 83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Connie McDonald in Rollington Town, Kingston, on 21 December 1923, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Jamaica in 1943 and served ten years as a medical secretary in the British military hospital. The Guardian wrote that she fought for back-pay she believed she was owed and campaigned for Caribbean servicewomen to be recognised. She received the British Empire Medal in 1991 and an MBE in 1993. In Britain she was a founder of the Mary Seacole Memorial Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2007\/jun\/16\/guardianobituaries.obituaries\">The Guardian<\/a>, June 16, 2007. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by The Guardian June 16, 2007 LONDON \u2014 The Guardian\u2019s obituary of Connie Mark recorded that she \u201cwas educated privately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-obituaries","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}