Lorna Hawthorne
Meet Lorna Hawthorne; wife of Howell Hawthorne, the Jamaican founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, who committed suicide inside his factory on Saturday, December 2, 2017. He was 57.
Mr. Hawthorne’s lifeless body was found inside his office at the company on 3958 Park Avenue; investigators also retrieved a handgun and a note, but its contents were not revealed.
He was born on May 1, 1960, in Andrew, Jamaica; he moved to the US in 1981. Lowell held a Bachelor of business administration from the City University of New York-Herbert H. Lehman College; prior to that, he studied at Bronx Community College.
He served as President and CEO of Golden Krust since August 1989, until his tragic death.
Lorna
Mr. Hawthorne’s wife is the former Lorna P. Roach; Lorna was born on October 10, 1962, in Freetown/ Maidstone, an area of Manchester, Jamaica.
Lorna and her sister Paulette grew up in a family where everything revolved around their school, church, and family. She was never allowed to attend local dances.
Like Lowell, Lorna and her sister eventually moved to New York around the same time he did; however, it was 1983 that they met at a dance. They were properly introduced by Paulette’s boyfriend.
Lorna and Lowell became friends in the months that followed and things quickly moved from that point. They started dating while Lorna worked for the Moravian church and Lowell who was with the NYPD.
She found out she was pregnant with their firstborn Omar a few months after they started dating and were not yet married. Omar was born on November 27, 1984.
They eventually tied the knot on July 13, 1985, in the Bronx, NY. Two more sons were born; Haywood and Daren as well as a daughter named Monique.
All three of Lorna Hawthorne’s children work at the family business where she serves as director of human resources; Omar is the director of franchise development and community affairs; Haywood is the vice president of information technology and manufacturing, Daren is the corporate counsel and executive vice president of franchising.; and Monique, takes care of the Mavis & Ephraim Hawthorne Golden Krust Foundation
Haywood Hawthorne is not Lorna’s child, he is the first child for Lowell from his previous relationship.
That would make Haywood older than Omar and the oldest child?
My uncle works at the Golden Krust Warehouse and he said he didn’t kill himself over tax debt. He said he went home and caught his wife in bed with another man! & came to the business and killed himself! .. it’s hear seh so idk if it is true but “allegedly” that’s what caused him to kill himself
But some man fool fool ehhh if a so. Him nuh take a picture divorce har he will have grounds to give her very little den go start bad…kmt…
Not when she have all his secrets and know where all the skeletons are hidden. Marriage/relationship can be terrible thing when things go south.
Lies on lies on lies. It was tax deaths and multiple law suit… He dies the suit dies with him.. It don’t make sense to us but it make sense to him..
Not true. The “tax debt” (not tax death!!!!!) associated with the company/corporation lives on and if he files joint personal income tax return with his wife, she is still on the hook for those tax debt. That might be true of his estate also, but that is something for the tax lawyers to address.
He and his company was named in the federal lawsuit, so the company did not die with him, so the lawsuit continues. The lawsuit can always be amended and other defendants (new CEO/Officers of the company) added.
R.I.P Mr. Hawthorne
It is so sad you thought you had no other way out.
I heard he had a new baby just born.
And I heard he was bi and being blackmailed
They have 3 kids together. Haywood is from the previous relationship.
@Suh me hear, I refuse to believe She could be that BRITE AND BRAZEN!!! Its hearsay, but i cannot fathom his wife could do such a thing when that in itself would affect any divorce DIVIDENDS if that’s where they were heading.
This as I said before spells our relationship issues .. tax debt is one thing but he is an accountant .. he had some other issues
I agree his death had nothing to do with any tax debt or pending assessment..former employees suing him for $150000 that is nothing. This happens to many businesses in america….also the news media reporting that the Feds were begining a probe into his corporation. The probe had not even started…his net worth was $70 million and his business revenue was $100 million. What ever he would have been assessed would have been able to be paid over time
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/new-york/bronx/golden-krust-workers-slap-chain-wage-lawsuit-ceo-dies-article-1.3686587
Met look ya
What a heap a different tory. The reason him kill himself in him cellphone, dats if it nuh wipe already. Who was the last person he spoke with? But di ketch wife story may be summen fi look into deeper cause di ppl dem she his car was parked sideways, which was not like him, so something jolted him to come and park him vehicle suh and kill himself. Something sudden him heard or saw that led up di tragedy.
S.I.P Mr. Hawthorne…them never want yuh yah! You overcame too much trials and tribulations to let tax debt and class action suit drive you to suicide…ME NUH BUY DAT! This man was about to take Golden Krust to another level: stock exchange, global, make the brand a household name. Plus it’s a black family owned business, that’s unheard of. Mr. Hawthorne the big boys (McDonalds, Burger King, Subway etc.) want yuh know yuh lane, yuh cyah play pon them field. Umm..Lorna did you confirm the handwriting of the alleged suicide note?…make sure it wasn’t written under duress. Hey you family member is how much money you get fe correlate them story bout the man did worry bout IRS?
Bullshit. What the hell meat pies and tropical cook food have to do with Mcdonalds? Shut the hell up with that madness!
The man dead because he killed himself.
Have you folks not heard the voicenote with the guy solemnly confirming that Hawthorne was (allegedly) bisexual? And his brother was in the office when he tried to shoot himself first and blah blah? It out deh a pass through whatsapp. Differently, i heard the family members were on him for money and it was a greed thing along with the nephew who recently got married and wanted Hawthorne to pay for the entire wedding. But unless he left a note, there will be endless speculations and hear says
Y’all fcking Jamaicans are so damn annoying just spreading propaganda like y’all don’t even know the real story just nuff and love chat! If it ain’t facts why are you repeating it? Unu just love dutty up ppl name to pussiclat!!!!
If we so damn annoying to you, then why da f**k you a try chat like we??? Obviously YOU nuff up inna Jamaican business!Oh and btw its Pussyclaut idiot Yankee bitch
Bitch I’m Jamaican guh suck yuh madda str8
How the Jamaican patty king made it to the top — before ending it all
Lowell Hawthorne so loved the American dream that when he finally made it, he commissioned an architect to design his Westchester home to resemble the White House.
The multimillion-dollar home with a four-columned portico was one of Hawthorne’s many symbols of success. Known as the Jamaican patty king, he had a Bentley parked in his garage and in his sprawling back yard, a replica of the babbling brook that ran behind his rural childhood home.
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Lowell Hawthorne’s homeRichard Harbus
Well known in New York’s Caribbean community as a generous philanthropist and deeply religious man, the CEO and founder of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill seemed to have it all. And the future looked bright: His company, which employs 1,800 people, had embarked upon a multimillion-dollar expansion into the Canadian market and had just opened a plant in Rockland County to meet heightened demand for the company’s crusty breads and signature beef patties. On the home front, the 57-year-old had just welcomed his first grandchild. He was “super excited,” visiting the infant almost daily, said a longtime family friend.
For all these reasons, Hawthorne’s friends are hard pressed to explain why this married father of four with a net worth of nearly $500 million drove his silver Tesla 85D to his Bronx factory on Dec. 2, entered the building, raged at two employees and sat behind his desk, where he shot himself in the head — his bloody end captured on one of the building’s surveillance cameras.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/09/how-the-jamaican-patty-king-made-it-to-the-top-before-ending-it-all/
His House
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/golden-crust-house.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&strip=all
The outside of the house nice. The inside depressing bad. Lorna have no furnishing skills. That man lived in a depress home.
shut the f**k up all of yall. the man left a note. Him wife neva a cheat. dem a good people. unnu wortless like n no have half di ambition like dem but unna a talk. go look a life. thats why unnu lazy worthless jamaican cyah reach no where in life because unnu spen unnu valuable time a watch n chat people. n live pon pinkwall. unnu disgust me. him gi poor people hope n faith to become somethinh in life. dead dog unnu go look a life
His suicide proves money does not make people happy.