She left Venezuela at the age of 5 with her family and moved to Curacao, Suriname and later moved to Haiti where she had lived for two years. She graduated from Guantanomo High School in Cuba and later attended and graduated from tailor/seamstress school.
She married and had her children in Cuba. In 1958, Mrs. Cobbs moved to Washington, D.C., where she lived for three years, before moving to San Diego, CA, and ultimately settled permanently in Brunswick.
In 1965, Mrs. Cobbs went to work at Regional Memorial Hospital as a nurse’s assistant and at Parkview Memorial Hospital as a parttime nurse’s assistant. She was employed from 1968 to 1971 at Giant’s Department Store.
Prior to opening her tailor shop, Suzie Q Tailor Shop in Brunswick, she worked in the Brunswick Naval Air Station tailor shop for nine years.
She was predeceased by a son, Enrique Ricardo Cobbs, who died in 1958; a granddaughter, Tyme Neshea Myers, who died in 1998; a brother, Alfredo Yearwood, and a sister Juanita Del- Carmen.
Survivors include two sons, Sylvester
E. Cobbs Jr. of
Brunswick, Ernesto
Fernando of Portland, ME; two daughters, Belita Velizco of Bath, ME, Diana Yagrudes of Portland, ME; eight grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild, her sister Juanita’s daughter Cynthia Stafford of North Carolina, as well as several other nieces, nephews, great-nieces and greatnephews.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pleasant Street in Brunswick, with Reverend Carolyn Eklund officiating.
In lieu of sending flowers, memorial donations may be made in Ursula’s memory to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, ME 04011 or to the soup kitchen at St. Paul’s Church. To offer online condolences to Ursula’s family, please visit her tribute page at www.brackettfuneralhome.c om.
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