In 1937 Clara successfully applied for a job in the Gold Coast as assistant matron at Achimota School (where another of G. J. Christian's daughters, Sarah, had earlier worked as a nursing sister) but turned down the post because of the job's insecurity, poor pay and poor prospects. Despite numerous legal battles with her former husband, Clara successfully brought up her daughters as a single mother: Barbara studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Joyce trained as a nurse in England and subsequently moved to the USA, Evelyn trained as a beautician and moved to New York, while Marjorie became a nurse in London, eventually returned to Bermuda and on her retirement joined her youngest daughter in Nova Scotia, Canada. Clara's two sons, Edgar — known as Teddy and later Hakim — and Kenneth Gordon, meanwhile, enrolled as medical students at the University of Edinburgh in 1944. Ghanaian student Emmanuel Evans-Anfom remembered the "Gordons from Trinidad" in 1940s Edinburgh: "West Indians exhibited airs of superiority but when they came into contact with students from West Africa they found we were all educated and in some cases better than themselves." The brothers did not complete their medical studies due to financial difficulties; Hakim became an ethnologist, travelling the world with his wife and children, and Ken Gordon went on to become a successful jazz musician in London, forming a vocal group called the Four Tune-Tellers, before joining another group, the Three Just Men, alongside calypsonian George Browne and Horace Dawson, "presenting a repertoire that ranged from spirituals to bebop". Clara Christian died in Bermuda in September 1964.