This memorial website has been created in memory of Pastor EDWIN A. HYATT who was born in St. Ann, Jamaica on June 17, 1922 and passed away in Silver Spring, Maryland on December 27, 2008 at the age of 86.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Mavis and his children:  Beverley (Neville), Marlene (Derick), Edwin, Jr. (Myrna) and Charmaine Rose (Joseph); five grand children:  Serena (Dwight), Brandon, Sheldon, Ramon and Edwin, III; sisters:  Nellie, Floris, Janet (Louis), and Marjorie (Albert); brother: John (Angella); nieces: Delmarie (William, Tristan, Alexa) and Sherrie (Craig, Drew, Jasmine); nephews: Albert, and Christopher (Sarah, Michael, Nathan and Naomi), and a host of relatives, colleagues, and friends.  

 Memorial Service: 

 Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM 

Spencerville Seventh-Day Adventist Church 

16325 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20905

Internment follows at

George Washington Cemetary

9500 Riggs Road, Adelphia, MD 20783

ph 301-434-4640

Viewing:

 Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 5pm -7pm 

Chamber's Funeral Home

5801 Cleveland Avenue, Riverdale, MD 20737

 ph 301-699-5503

In lieu of flowers: 

An Edwin Hyatt scholarship fund will be established for students at Willowdene High School and Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica.  Contributions should be made out to Inter-American Division, and sent to: 

Inter-American Division of SDA

Attn:  Treasury Department, P. O. Box 830518, Miami, FL 33283

Please mark your check:  Hyatt Scholarship Fund 

A tax receipt will be provided

He grew up in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and attended West Indies Training College, now Northern Caribbean University, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Theology and worked in West Jamaica  Conference for some  time.

He earned a Master of Arts in Theology at the Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and returned to pastoral work in West Jamaica Conference in 1961.  Later that year when Central Jamaica Conference was formed, he joined Pastor H. S. Walters and others in the new headquarters in Spanish Town.  He succeeded Pastor Walters as President of Central Jamaica Conference in 1968, and resigned from that position in 1980.

He migrated to the US in 1980, and worked in Central States Conference, pastoring in Des Moines, Iowa; Wichita, Kansas; Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, retiring to Florida in 1997, where he worked part-time for the Florida Conference, until suffering a stroke in 2004.

He relocated to Silver Spring, Maryland in August 2005, where he lived close to two of his children (Beverley and Edwin, Jr).