A memorial service will be conducted Saturday in Bimini for Julian Brown, owner of the Compleat Angler Hotel, who perished there in a fire in January.
DNA test results released Friday confirmed that human remains found in the hotel’s ruins were those of Mr. Brown, Cpl. Christina King of the Royal Bahamas Police Force said Tuesday. The homey, wooden hotel, a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s and a tourist destination, was destroyed by the Jan. 13 blaze.
Mr. Brown, 62, was a former teenage track star who represented his country in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, according to The Bahama Journal and Bahamas police.
The memorial will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Our Lady and St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Bailey Town, Bimini.
