Sept. 30, 2008 – Enez Ione Harvey of No. 2 Estate Bellevue, St. Thomas, died on Sept. 29, in Florida, at the age of 93. She is survived by her children: Lisa Marie Oliver and Ginger Agatha Harvey Lobban; and grandchildren: Rhys, Shomarie, Isaiah. She was preceded in death by her husband Osborne Harvey.
Enez Ione Harvey was born on April 8, 1915 at the family's home on Vester Gade, St. Thomas, to Adolf Sixto and Anne Hatchette. She received her elementary education at the Moravian School. Later she attended public high school in New York where she met another student named Osborne Harvey, whom she later married. Mrs. Harvey attended New York University, and after graduation, she married Osborne Harvey on June 22, 1940 in Bronx, New York.
The Harveys moved to St. Thomas in the 1940s where both taught at Charlotte Amalie High School. Mrs. Harvey and her husband also opened St. Thomas' first dry cleaners, known as the Band Box Laundry.
Mrs. Harvey, a stern disciplinarian, taught English, grammar and literature at Charlotte Amalie High School for many years. She also earned her Master's in Education and was a professor for several years in the evenings at the then College of the Virgin Islands.
She was a guidance counselor at Ivanna Eudora Kean High School and also served as the V. I. Department of Education's assistant district superintendent.
An avid traveler, philanthropist and entrepreneur, Mrs. Harvey was a past president of the Inner Wheel, president of the Friends of Denmark, president of the Business and Professional Women's Organization, and president of the Hibiscus Society.
Funeral services are pending.
