Juana Michel Clerville

Juana was born on January 21st 1932 to her mother Adelaide Charles and father Royaume Michel in Jérémie, Haiti. Juana grew up helping her mother take care for their community by taking folks into their home who either needed advice or a place to stay.

She was an exceptional Seamstress and won a "lottery" visa, to come work in the U.S. In the 1970s, the United States used the Diversity Visa Lottery, also known as the Green Card Lottery, to award visas to promote diversity in immigration by making a limited number of immigrant visas available each year to people from countries with low immigration rates to the United States. In those years, she started her career as a Seamstress/Factory Worker working in the Noho industrial warehouse district in NYC. In the 1980s she spent the remainder of her career working in the Housekeeping department of the Helmsley Palace Hotel first as a Housekeeping Room attendant and then finally as the Housekeeping Uniform Room Tailor.

On February 26th 1985 she proudly became a Naturalized U.S. Citizen

In 1998, Juana retired and spent her time participating in the ministries of Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church Brooklyn, New York. She became religiously active in their charismatic spiritual community, a Eucharistic minister as well as a member of their choir. Even after moving to Cary North Carolina to be closer to her family and grandchildren, she continued to seek a spiritual community as a member of Saint Michael’s the Archangel R.C. Church.

She was preceded in death by her mother Adelaide Charles and beloved father Royaume Michel. She is survived by her only son Jonathan A. Mitchall, his Wife Allison M. Mitchall, their daughters Maya K. Mitchall, and Sydney K. Mitchall. She holds a special place in her heart for closest cousins Fritz Alexandre, Marie Celie Sully, and Marie Jozee Michel, her niece Gertha Lamusique, Gertha’s children and the many communities/friends she has prayed for and prayed with.

Services will be held at St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, 804 High House Rd, Cary, NC 27513 on November 18th 2024 at 11:45am. A Repass will be held afterwards to share memories with friends and family.

Entombment to follow the next day at Raleigh Memorial Park & Mitchell Funeral Chapel Mausoleum Chart “E” Crypt 6146

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