Sidney Poitier’s daughter died 3 years before him—meet his 6 kids.
He may have been one of the greatest actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but to Sidney Poitier’s kids, he was just their dad.
Poitier was born on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida. He was the youngest of seven children. His parents, Evelyn Outten and Reginald James Poitier, were farmers in the Bahamas and owned a farm on Cat Island, which they would often travel from to Miami to sell tomatoes and other produce. Poitier was born unexpectedly in Miami two months premature while his parents were visiting.
Beverly named her jewelry brand, Poitier Henderson Jewelry, after her father and her husband, her high school sweetheart, with whom she lives in the suburbs of north Atlanta, Georgia. “Beverly lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband who is her high school sweetheart,” her artist page continues. “She named her company, Poitier-Henderson Jewelry after her two favorite guys, her father and her husband. You may have heard of her dad, legendary actor, Sidney Poitier.
“I live off the grid,” she told students at R.B. Hunt Elementary School in St. Augustine when presenting the film. “I get my electrical power from the sun, I catch rainwater on my roof and I use composting toilets.” She continued, “My mother was half Cherokee, and she raised me with a credo. That is that we don’t own any part of this planet, that we’re just passing through. And we’re obligated to leave it better than it was when we go.
Gina died on the afternoon of May 27, 2018. She was 57 years old. According to her obituary, her death was “quick and unexpected.” “It is a gross understatement to say that she will be missed,” her obituary read. It continued, “As the youngest child Gina, was loved tremendously, spoiled by her mother and her second Mother ‘Mama Jean’. Gina spent many a day on her father’s lap escaping the strict discipline her expected from her sisters.
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