In Loving Memory of Eugenie Hinds
Friday 4th April 2025
1.30pm - Kirby Muxloe Cemetery
Eugenie Elaine Hinds
Our Beautiful Mother, Grandmother, Great Grand Mother, Friend and Relative .
She was born in Lucky Hill, St Mary, Jamaica and was the youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Roderick Davis.
She had two siblings. Her brother Ambrose Davis who we called “Uncle Sonny” and her sister Ena Davis Hoijer “Auntie Ena”. She outlived both and had such fond memories of them.
At the age of 17 Eugenie came to England on a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) flight via Newfoundland in Canada
She was studying to become a nurse in Guildford however she was a blood phobic, and she didn’t really enjoy nursing, but she wasn’t a quitter, so she gave it her best shot.
Her mantra was “If you start something ,you stick at it until finished”.
She was then sent to Manchester for nursing training however she increasingly realised that Nursing really wasn’t for her.
She moved to Huddersfield, Yorkshire where she got married to Winston Bertram Hinds and her first daughter Judi Anne- Marie was born .Whilst in Huddersfield she did government jobs. She was extremely hardworking and worked through her pregnancies when carrying her three children.
Her ambition was to work in Communications and as a child her dream career was to be a Postmistress with her own Post Office which she always expressed to her mother Rosa Davis.
She loved everything to do with Telecommunications, so after a few years she moved to London where her second daughter Heather Rose Angela was born, and she did receptionist /telephonist work at a hospital.
Eugenie and her husband then moved to Leicester seeking a better life and prospects for their children, and that’s where her third child a son, Winston Dean Foster was born.
She then worked at the Leicester GPO as a Telephonist first, and then she was a Telegraphist there for several years. She continued with Telephonist/Receptionist work until she retired.
Eugenie was the only Caribbean lady working in her role as a Telegraphist and she was very proud of the fact that she had passed the aptitude test to be admitted into the role and that the local councillor at the time had also taken the test but failed.
Also as a young lady, she was very mischievous, she enjoyed listening to saucy conversations which regularly occurred whilst she was working as a Telephonist.
Eugenie was lively, loving, elegant, extremely intelligent, and charismatic. Everybody who met her absolutely adored her because of her warm and friendly nature.
She enjoyed dancing, eating good food and enjoyed a good tipple. She was an amazing cook, and her speciality was her “ Jamaican rum cake” was delicious .
Eugenie is a huge loss to us all and we will all struggle without her, but we have some beautiful memories to cling on to.
RIP Eugenie Elaine Hinds