Magdalene Agatha Hendricks Plaskett was born July 18, 1936, in Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, to Rosalind Burke and Fred Valdemar Hendricks.
She started school in St. Thomas and, before leaving St. Croix at 13, attended Christiansted High School and was confirmed at Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church. Like so many Virgin Islanders in the 50’s, she moved to New York and graduated from Girls High School in Brooklyn at 16. She enjoyed a life in public service and retired as a senior court clerk in the New York Supreme Court. Magdalene was a founding member of the Harlem Lions Club and was devoted to her Lutheran faith, her family, and especially young people.
She now joins her husband of 63 years, LeRoy Alphonso Plaskett of St. Croix; sisters, Vida Anderson Trotman Chinnery, Emily Anderson Westby, Eleanor Nico; brother, Fred Hendricks; brothers-in-law, Hugh Stewart, Earl Slatter, Ulric, John, Raymond, Lawrence, Lloyd, Kenneth (Malcolm) Plaskett; sisters-in-law, Juanita Hendricks, Gene Slater LaFranque, Helena Plaskett Rhymer, Ivy Plaskett John, Hortense Plaskett George, and Ruth Seaman Lauth.
Magdalene leaves on this earth her two daughters, the Honorable Stacey E Plasket and Lesley A Plaskett; one son-in-law, Jonathan Buckney Small; grandchildren, Jeremiah, Christian, Ariel, Elise, Uriah, Avery, Israel, Taliah; four great-grandchildren, and too many nieces and nephews, cousins, and godchildren to mention; sisters, Adele Jacobs and Evangeline Hendricks Best; sisters-in-law, Beatrice Plaskett-Simmonds, as well as Audrey Sheen Plaskett, Axeline Wells Plaskett, and Corinne Forbes Plaskett; Special friends are Charles and Sonny Capehart, Phyllis Charles, Herman Epps, Nettie Richards, Gideon and Carla Small, Verna Garcia, Ruth Lang, Johann Clendinen and the Bermudez, Bollings, Branigan, Chinnery, Cuff, Davis, Hewitt, James, Motta, Nieves, Richards, Schjang, Sobtker, Thompson, Todmann, Trotman, Van Putten, Walcott, Williams and the members of the 1953 class of Christiansted High School.
Funeral service will be held on August 18. Viewing starts at 9 am and service at 10 am at Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church. Interment held at the Christiansted Cemetery.
Professional services are entrusted to James Memorial Funeral Home, Inc
