Veteran broadcaster Barbara Gloudon has died at age 87.

Her death was confirmed by her family.

Gloudon’s passing comes just over a week after the death of her husband, Ancile Gloudon, earlier this month.

She had been battling illness for some time.

The author, playwright and theatre chair also had a distinguished career in journalism, during which she received multiple awards from the Press Association of Jamaica and for which she received the national honour of membership in the Order of Distinction in 1992.

She began working as a scriptwriter for Jamaica’s Little Theatre Movement (LTM) in 1969 and also wrote radio drama.

She became a fellow of the Institute of Jamaica in 2012.

Gloudon, born Lorna Goodison in 1935, began her career at The Jamaica Gleaner in 1953, working as a reporter.

She also worked as a columnist using the pseudonym ‘Stella’ at the Jamaica Star.

She married Ancile, a chemist and food technologist, in 1960.

Together they had three children, Lisa, Jason and Anya.