In making a contribution to this outstanding Memrial to Studley, "Junior" as we knew and called him, I am faced with the plain fact that our lives here on Earth are in the "hands" of the Almighty Creator and he alone knows why and when he calls us to himself.
One of my unfading memories of Junior was during my stay in St Kitts as a young boy attending school in Basseterre. I had some after school lesson one day and for some reason no one was able to pick me up from our Aunt Doris's home in Victoria Road. It became quite late and despite my Aunt Doris inviting me to come upstairs to bed I determined to wait down in the living room untill our Grandmother began coming downstairs to bring me up to sleep with her and then the front door opened and in stepped Junior. The relief that swept over the 7 or 8 year old boy that I was, was indescribable and I have never forgotten it. Junior waited till it was suitably and safely late so as to take the car and drive down to fetch me as he did not yet have a drivers licence. To me that demonstrates the character of the person we are all fondly remembering here and I add my prayers for his repose in the Mercy of his Lord as he sleeps with his fathers.
His iinfectious laugh and comical streak, I remember him being able to move his ear by concentrating on the appropriate muscles, endeared him to us all.
We have been taught that after we leave this Earth all our good deeds end but three, Knowledge that we have passed on, Enduring works of charity and the Prayers of our children for us. As Junior left no children, we, his remaining relatives have the duty to pray for his favour with God.
May the Almighty make his rest Peaceful and may he be raised to Glory. Amen