Born on May 13, 1918 in Riding Rock, Abaco, Edith Estella Jane Lightbourne was the second licensed female taxi driver in the entire country – an admirable accomplishment considering the difficulties women faced in the fight for equal rights.
According to people who have known her, Edith Lightbourne has always been a strong, outspoken, articulate woman … and “positively proudly Bahamian.”
She told us she is going to live for 100 years and she almost made it, passing away in 2017, 6-months before her 100th birthday.