This video documents the funeral service for Mr. Shepherd Alexander Cayenne (Dudley), a 95-year-old Carriacou native who lived a life of hard work, family devotion, and community service. The service, held on May 12, 2026, at La Qua Chapel in Lauriston, Carriacou, featured tributes from family members including his son Trevor, daughter An, and grandchildren, who shared memories of his agricultural work, his donkey-riding adventures with grandchildren, and his dedication to family unity. The eulogy highlighted his journey from Carriacou to England in the 1950s, his return in 1983, and his legacy as a proud 'son of the soil' who taught his children to 'eat what you grow' and value education. The service included Christian readings from Hebrews 9:27 and Psalm 27, emphasizing themes of death as an inevitable appointment, the importance of family unity, and the hope of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.
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Good morning.
I'm Brian, father-in-law.
Welcome.
Um, we're here today to say our final farewells to Mr. Shepherd Alexander Cayenne, dad.
Um, we have an order of service which we will be following very loosely, but we'll be we'll be in and around that.
So, to move things along, um, Thank you from a dulfilling call.
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And if the Come around the casket of the coffin for a moment.
So you can just surround it like as a family.
All members of the family please come if you are able like a born.
If you are able can please join Okay, let us go to God in prayer.
Almighty and everlasting God, you are God and there is none like you.
Lord, we lift up your holy and righteous name today. Lord, we are here, oh God, because of the departing of a loved one.
Today, oh God, the families believe they are grieving, oh God, by the loss of the loved one. But we can remember oh God through your word that when Mary said that her brother have died you were able to weep at the death of Lazarus. I pray at this time, oh God, during the brief time, that you bring comfort to their soul and that they realize, oh God, even though they have lost a loved one, but you can give them that inner strength, that inner peace, that they can fortify themsel and to realize that you give it and you take it. But blessed be your name. I pray oh God for they to be motivated to realize despite of the challenge that they are facing at this time oh God that they can rely on you and trust in you and that you can give them that confidence to know that you are there for them in their time of loss and that you will continue to guide them and to help them to know that you are the God of yesterday today and forever more and you live and you reign in the life of human being. Lord have mercy upon them. Lord guide them in every aspect of their life. We pray that unity will continue to prevail in the family because we know God this is one of the challenge that many families face in time like this. But I know God that the loss of the loved one or they believe God's desire would be for their children, his grandchildren and his immediate family to be our united force because he love his children. He love his grandchildren. So Lord I bring them I commend them to you today. I pray that you guide them and strengthen and to help them to understand though they have have this loss but they can have the confidence to know that he have live a life a legacy that they could pattern themselves too and to also continue that pathway to guide their children and grandchildren likewise that they can also have that great benefit that you have to offer. Lord we thank you. We pray for the entire congregation. We pray for the island. We pray, oh God, today at this time also for the island.
We pray, oh God, we know that the island is in v need of rain. We pray, oh God, that you send the rain that the people will need, that it will help them in the situation, for the help, for the water, oh God, that you can provide them to sustain them life, for the animals, and for the plants. We also pray for the island for this year. Oh God, as we know we about in the hurricane season that no hurricane or disaster will struck this island anymore that protection will be upon them. We also pray for the family as they have to travel oh God for traveling mercy. Lord this morning Lord this day please hear our prayer and guide us in every way possible as we pray in another name but Jesus name.
Amen and amen.
Lord we must Lord as we reflect upon this noble man a man who have tried this pilgrim journey he have left a legacy and today the signitar is before us his children I can attest his grandchildren his family and Lord you give it and you take it but blessed be your name we Lord recommend this brother to you. We thank you, oh God, for his life. We also thank you for the legacy that he lived. And we pray, oh God, that it will be a lasting impression on his children and his grandchildren. As we commend everything to you now and forever in Jesus name.
Amen. And amen. Please be seated. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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You tell me what >> be I won't feel So, what do you want to happen? What do you want? Bury or burn?
But you don't want to be burned. You don't want to be burnt.
>> Who?
>> You. What do you want? Burn or buried?
>> When a boy.
>> No.
You you you throw them around.
>> No, it's what you want, Dad.
Oh dear.
>> What about church? What do you What do you want? Church or or what? What do you want? Church? You want to go to church?
>> Church.
And I have to go into So what you going to do?
>> What are you want to do?
>> What do you want? But what do you want?
Expect like it's your choice. It's your choice. If you tell me, then I'll tell everybody else.
>> Couple Oh dear.
>> No one's going to chop you up, Dad.
No one's going to chop you up. Chop up.
>> No.
No way.
I'm set up by lovely.
Amazing.
I'd like to invite you all.
>> All right. Anyway, so Dad, we'll bury you then. We'll bury you >> and put you next to mom.
>> Dad.
>> Dad.
>> We'll put you next to mom.
I call the name of it.
>> Yes. Hopefully. Hopefully.
>> Hopefully.
>> Yeah.
>> Hopefully.
>> Which child gave you the most trouble?
Which child gave you the most trouble?
>> I'm having trouble.
>> Who's your favorite?
>> Who's your favorite?
>> What are you talking about? Everybody >> daddy. Who gave you the most problem?
Which one is which one gave you the most trouble as a child?
>> Get all get everyone of you.
I cannot say nothing wrong.
I don't I cannot complain about all who's Who's the most sensible?
Who is the most sensible one?
>> Everybody.
>> No, they're not.
>> Wait a minute.
>> Who is the most sensible?
>> I don't know.
>> Who is the most stupid?
>> Yeah, the stupid one.
If you me to me when I when I go you must think about it everybody you can't love one more Love [snorts] everyone.
I never ever do this as mountain.
I will always have to call mom.
If she was a bad woman to me, I would have to talk about speak.
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You understand?
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>> Are you all right? Are you all right?
When you see I may I shot for good. Nothing.
Nobody know how to come.
Do you think you're going to die?
>> Maybe >> everybody kind of leave leave all the way.
>> Do you think Yeah. But when we go when we go home, do you think you'll see us again? When we go back, do you think you will see us again?
>> Yes.
Hope so. To the Almighty.
Why you?
>> I'm just asking.
>> Next one.
Next one. I have a lot of good You'll do anything for me.
No, I live.
No. If I'm dead, no.
They're cleaning out those before they come.
So watch somebody take any look.
I thank you very much.
I thank you very much.
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I'd like to invite you to stand while we sing Abide with Me.
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Thank you. Please be seated.
We're going to now lead some tributes.
Um, first of all, we're going to have the eulogy read by an Cayenne.
Good morning everyone.
had to compose myself a little bit.
Um, I told my family that I was going to get through this without crying.
I cried. I've done a lot of crying in here this morning. I'm going to try and get through this without crying because we want to tell you about our father.
So, Shepherd Alexander Cayam.
Shepherd Alexander Cayam born the 18th of July 1930 was 95 years old at the time of his passing.
A life well lived.
Son, brother, husband, father, friend, father-in-law.
Our father was a very informal man, very different to our mother. We want to share things about you, about our father and we, you know, we're kind of going to do it in quite an informal way because that's how he was.
He didn't stand on ceremony. No hes and graces. Our father was a son of the soil of Caraku here. very proud Caraku man and you know we want to represent him as he was. So maybe a little bit informal but still very respectful.
Um we welcome you to share in a life expressed in video and sound. He was a funny guy. Always had a joke. A lot of laughing.
um when you get to 95 years there's a lot to share. So we hope that the video and the audio will help us to give a sense of our father to you because we're proud of him. We're very proud of our father.
This eulogy is our about um our father, our grandfather, but it cannot be delivered without making reference to our mother and she will feature in this eulogy and in the service throughout.
Um our father was quite serious on the outside, but he really was a very funny guy and had a lot of jokes. So you might see him with a serious he was always serious looking like this. He always looked like this. He was either was like this serious or he was laughing. There was no kind of in between smiling. He was either serious or he was laughing.
That's how he was. People who knew him that they knew him that's how he was.
There were different sides to him. We think of him as our dad. But before that he was a son to um Safia Cayenne and Cly Jerome born in Graan Bay.
Um, we don't really he never really talked a lot about being a son in Caraku because his life was without his mother for a lot of the time. He um so we don't have a lot of information about Dudley Cayenne the son.
Dudley the brother however we have a little bit I can share a little bit more about you about Dudley Kayan the son. He had my he was the oldest of his mother's children. Um and then he had my we had my uncle Edgel who passed deceased and my uncle Robert who is here with us and my uncle Simpson who is represented by his son Russell today. Um that brotherhood was a tale of two halves in a way because half of the children were born in Caraku and the other half were born in Trinidad. So we do have a Trinidad connection. Um but um our grandmother passed away in Trinidad and so she never came back. We don't know what would have happened if she had lived but she passed away in Trinidad and then his life remained here in Caraku until he went to England. But we'll come back to the brothers later.
So as a husband and father um you know there were lots of mots as it were that my father and my parents spoke in the home when we were growing up and one of those was you have to choose your choice and so when I talk about my we talk about our father and grandfather as a husband and a father that's where we come in to talk about our mother they met in Caraku my mother was from Grand um Mount Pleasant and my father's from Grammy May. There weren't many details. I didn't really My mom never really talked about them meeting. Not to me anyway. Maybe to Mary because Mary would ask certain questions of her that I might not dare to ask. So I don't know. I can't tell you much about the meeting, how they met, but they met in Caraku. My mother, our mother was quite quiet, unassuming, not in anything, but he saw something in her. and made one of the best decisions of his life for both himself and for us the future children that he chose my mother to marry her and to have us with her and the benefit that that brought to us. I think we had the best mom. He chose the best mom for us.
Anyway, in 1957 um the first of four children were born to them. Trevor was the oldest. Shortly after, our father left for the UK and settled in Huddersfield.
Um, leaving them behind, but knowing that he was going to come back and maintain his life together with my mom.
So, shortly after he left, a little bit of time passed, nothing. Then shortly after the letter came and it almost didn't happen, but the second letter meant that my mom joined him in the UK and they were married in 1959.
Um, the second son was born, Godwin, my brother Godwin. Um, and then in I'm not going to tell you the year of my birth and my sisters because then you'll be able to work out our ages and I'm not telling you. My grandmother said, "You don't give away your age." So in the 60s I [laughter] was I was born and in the 70s Mary was born. Um our little sister he always said of us his children you have four children four different minds. He always said that you make your children you don't make your minds. That was another motto that we lived by in our house. And he was right.
We are very different all of us. As a husband they were had a very traditional marriage. He was from that Windrush, should they call it the Windrush generation in the UK that came to the UK in the 50s. Um that generation of solid provider men who believed in working and looking after their children. Um he would leave for work before it got light and he would come back in the evening when it was dark. That was the way things were for a long time. Our father was a very hard worker not just here when he came to Caracle but in the UK before he came back. Um there were lots of challenges in the UK. He was aware of that. In the UK there were lots of issues around race at the time. So they were strict. They had expectations of us and they wanted the best for us. They were proud of us and we were proud of them. We didn't want to disappoint them.
They said whatever we do do it well. We tried to do that.
Um, our time in Huddersfield, we've got fond memories of that. Um, Huddersfield is Little Caracu. So, you know, we have fond memories of our home in Three Hill House Lane with our cousins, our London cousins um, from West London and South London. They were we were always in that house together with our cousins and we've got a lot of fond memories, cousins on both sides. Um there was a lot of warmth and a lot of love in that home that Dudley Cayenne created with Ena Cayenne.
You know, we only made I only sound like this, but I'm actually a kayak at my heart because ever since before I came back here as a young girl, dad and his friends, we were used to the string band because at Christmas it everything they all came round. The string band was always in action in Huddersfield in those days when we were children and we love that. There was a lot of joy. The joy of Caraku was with us all the time while we were children in Huddersfield growing up.
Um my our uncles would come remember my uncle Robert he was always here always there with us in Huddersfield with his brother. He came to the UK and he was always around us. my uncle Rupert with his brother.
They talk when we were children was all about home.
They talked about Caracu all the time coming home.
And in 1983, they decided to come back and myself and my our little sister Mary, we were the ones that came with them. So, a lot of you will have only met us for the first time in Caracle when we were e 16 and 13 years old. Well, we were young when we came here.
You know, when we got here, we realized dad had there was another motto that came in, eat what you grow. We didn't see that side of our father in England, the grow the farmer. We didn't know him as a farmer in the UK, but when he came here, we knew him as a farmer. Um, you know, our time was in Mount Royal, Mount Pleasant, Graham Bay. They built their home in Mount Pleasant, and that's where we are now. and Caraku welcomed him back and all the things that he'd been talking about going home talking the people when we got to Caraku all those people welcomed us all they welcomed him with open arm ground street was different to what it is now it was full of people that remembered him as a child and they welcomed him back and they welcomed us back with open arms as well planting warf then featured quite heavily because our father had reared animals and He um you know he grew things. Everything they touched grew.
You know this is an experience we had never had before. Um he had his friends in Caraku who he were all who was always with. We saw a different side of him there. Eat what you grow. He was a son of the soil. We saw the duty and sacrifice of my father in those times.
The things he would do for people, the people he would help. He always had something to give. We saw a lot of abundance and plenty because he was about growing things and he constantly said even to you know he's while he was in his 90s look at all this bush. was always all there was garden. He's he's looking out of his window looking at the place saying, "Oh, this person used to have a garden here, this person." And you know, thinking about how things used to be.
Duty, sacrifice, harvest, abundant harvest, and sharing.
Whatever you have, you offer another motto in our home.
They always had something to give. He and mom, they love their garden and they were fruitful.
Every time we visited they we saw that harvest and then the grandchildren came and they had another experience of their grandfather. They didn't know him any different as a farmer on that donkey putting all those children whoever came on the donkey and giving them the opportunity to be riding all over the place. These children knew him as the donkey man because that's what what they saw of him when they and some of these children are now I mean they're here in their 30s who were riding that donkey sometimes not even just our children other children as well who remember him for that his grandchildren Joshua Alexander Joshua Matthew Samuel Shante Zachary Solomon Jacob and Noah all of them had that caracle experience because they were coming here as very small children. Zachary running behind granddad on the donkey with that stick, you know, he was the one that always got up and ran behind that going with the p, you know, everywhere. He was the one that was doing that.
They had that experience and they're back here now. You know, our parents would be glad to see them as adults here back here now, still coming because that's what they always wanted for us to love Carakule the way they did.
As you know, as my uncle Rupert always says, if you live long enough, you're going to get old.
He says that to us all the time, my uncle Ruper, if you live long enough, you're going to get old. And actually, he did live very long and he did get old. And so, as a husband, the in sickness and in health kicks in when our mother fell ill and she passed. years went by, you know, as he aged, the relationship between his children and his grandchildren, it changes. They say once a man, twice a child. It changes that relationship. So all those who knew, who know, um, it, you know, you take on more of a caring responsibility.
Um, the last time I was here at length was after Barl.
Barl turned Caracle upside down.
Our father was in his 90s. He had already witnessed Janet all those years ago that the old people talked about.
But Janet was nothing, he said, compared to Barl.
As he aged the ch the things that he needed from us changed all of a sudden you know you're no longer the children and them pay making the decisions you know we're then taking over you become the older ones you do that I'm going to bring my eulogy to an end now but I want to just kind of say that for myself.
I'm so proud of my father.
I'm so proud of my parents and what they accomplished, everything they tried to do. They weren't the only ones. There were lots of them. Many of them, they're not sitting here now because they're older and they've passed already. But they worked hard and we recognize that.
I'm proud of my father. I'm proud of my mom. I'm proud of the stock that I've come from. They worked hard for us and they stood with us and we stood with them.
And what I'll say about to the grandchildren, I'll turn to them now because you're not children running behind granddad with the stick and the donkey.
Now, what will you do? What will you do for all the hard work that your grandparents have done? What will you do?
all this the sacrifice that they put in for you so that you would have the things that you've got now that you would be brave and that they would love you when you came and that they would stuff you with solo and chubby and sweet things that we didn't want you to eat.
What do you do when you go forward in the world? The stock that you've come from, what do you do with that?
Remember your grandparents love you.
They loved you then and they love you now.
Yeah. I I'll bring my eulogy to a close.
Our father was son of the soil. Son of the soil. Proud kayak man. Some people are not proud of Caracle. My parents really were and we really are.
So, you know, it feels like there's at this age something there's a big something's coming to an end now for this generation because there are very few of that age group left. I think my father may I think may have been the oldest man living now in Mount Pleasant if I'm not mistaken. So, we'll see. It's down to us now, I suppose.
Thank you.
>> Thank you, An.
I'd like to invite Trevor.
>> Morning all.
You see how my father exposed me?
We loved him. We loved him. Um, I'm not going to make a long speech or whatever.
I'm just going to share with you some of dad's funnier moments that we've had, you know, whilst I've been here.
Uh there was one situation one one time when our cousin in Mondo was having the 50th anniversary and I said to that can we have a race now? He has the donkey and I have the car.
He says to me go on no problem. I said do you want to give me give you a head start? He says no no you go first.
I set off.
We're going to going down to on M road.
I had to go all the way up road, come out topill and come down to M. When I got in M, dad was sat down there.
He says, Trev, my four-wheel drive faster than yours.
And that was the sort of person. He's always joking. Always joking. You know, there was times when he said, Trev, I ain't boy. And there you not taking too long.
[sighs] He says [snorts] he says in taking too long to come and get me.
I said, "Dad, when when you ready, when the time come, you go. Don't worry about that. You know, you don't have to beg.
Don't beg for it. You'll come when it come." He said, "But all my friends gone. T [snorts] It's been very difficult.
Our dad was 6 foot odd, built like a giant, strong, strong man.
And in the end when you saw him, his his whole body wasn't as big as day.
[sighs] The Tuesday before our father passed away, he says, "Trev, I need some soup."
I says, "What do you what soup do you want, Dad?" He says, "Vegetable soup and I want some cake." Dad had a very sweet mouth. Very, very sweet mouth. You like the buns and the plain cake. I says, "Okay, Dad. I'll make I went down to Planty Wolf.
I got some ghost.
Squeezed it with the the ginger. He sat down on the table.
He drink the soup.
Then he says, "Drev." I didn't speak to Shante for a while. This is this is this is Shante, my daughter.
He says, "Call her. Call her." I said, "What?" I says, "That he says, call her."
So a video called and they were laughing and joking, laughing and joking. She said to him, "Dad, granddad, you have to eat. You have to eat.
You have to eat your food, Grandad." He says, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Shanie.
[snorts] When I go to the other side, I didn't want the worms to have too much to feed on.
>> [snorts] >> who went to bed the night, Tuesday night, got up the Wednesday morning that said Trevor, I got pain in my stomach.
[snorts] I have to I have to get it out.
[sighs] He says, "Prev, I got pain in my stomach." I says, "You okay, Dad?" He says, "No, it's hurting. My stomach's hurting me. Stomach's." I says, "Okay."
Well, you can lie down in the bed and, you know, later on when you feel a bit better, you'll get up and you can have your breakfast.
He says, "All right."
He says, "All right."
He laid down there. He laid down there.
We was talking up to the end. Up to the end, we was talking, laughing and joking.
Then dad always as my sisters in always react dad always says I ain't day boy boy I ain't there I ain't there day but this time when he said that so oh god [snorts] [snorts] I saw it in his eyes. I saw his in his eyes and I knew I knew this time he wasn't joking. He wasn't joking.
He talked to me. He says, "Trev, I ain't there, boy. I ain't there. I think I going to make it now."
And then he closed his eyes. Oh, God.
I I can't say no more. I'm going to I'm going to leave it there. Thank you all.
Thank you, Trevor.
Shante, don't go too far.
Shante is going to pay tribute to her grandfather.
Morning all.
>> [snorts] >> My loving granddaughter, shine my girl, shine.
Every time we spoke or we saw each other, that is what you would say.
I spoke those same words back to him. My loving grandfather, [sighs] [snorts] you're looking good. And he did. Every time we spoke, he looked good. He looked well. He was happy.
[sighs and gasps] Those words will live on in my heart forever.
We laughed.
We joked and we would pull faces when my dad or my aunties were trying to make him do something he didn't want to do.
His mischief and his laugh will be missed so much, but they will always be remembered.
As my auntie said, my granddad was known by many names. The donkey man. I heard that a lot.
And boy did we have fun riding those donkeys.
I always sat at the front shouting faster, faster, completely fearless because I knew he had me. [snorts] I knew I was safe.
And to me, he was invincible.
[gasps] My granddad, the protector.
I love you.
[sighs] Rest now with grandma.
and shine bright.
Thank you.
[applause] >> Well done. Well done.
Um I'd like to invite you all to stand to sing blessed assurance.
[singing] Jesus is [music] mine. [singing] Oh, what a foreign [singing] [music] glory divine [singing] [music] air of salvation [music] of God.
Oh yeah. [music] Born of his spirit, washed in his [music] blood.
This is [music] my story.
This is my [music] song.
Praising my savior.
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>> Morning all. Morning.
Um just please bear with me. Um, I just wanted to give a tribute from my heart to you all about my granddad.
Um, uh, [snorts] I have such good memories.
[snorts] of um waking up in the morning.
[snorts] So um so early because I knew that he would be leaving to go to planting wolf and I wanted to just be around him and [snorts] see what he was doing and experience the bush as he would say. So I would run behind him with the donkey and I would go with him in the morning [snorts] and he would tell me about the old days and we'd be m uh see some of his friends. I remember all of them. Um teacher Sammy, uh cousin Newton Thomas, cousin Joe, [snorts] um cousin Lenny, all of them. We we'd all I'd always see them and we'd talk and we'd share stories and yeah, it was a beautiful time and that has definitely shaped who I [snorts] am now and how I am now.
[sighs] He he showed me what it meant to work hard.
He's always working hard, always putting his energy into into growing something, planting something, feeding something, and that is something that will always be with me and I carry with me, always. Um, I don't know, I didn't have anything prepped, but I just wanted to share that. Um it's it's truly a blessing to see everyone here today all gathered in memory and honor of this great man and I just am so grateful for the time that we got with him. We got 95 years which is a long time you know it's a long time and I just feel so grateful that we're able to have that time with him [snorts] and experience and share as much as we did in the time that he was here. So thank you.
[applause] >> Um again, thank you for the congregation and those joining um online as well.
um to echo the same sentiment as my brother.
This place is so intrinsically linked with who I am and my identity and I'm forever thankful and grateful to both my grandma and my grandfather here um for that. I remember um when I heard the news actually I was I was so shocked because my perception of my granddad was like the Iron Man. He was so invincible. He didn't seem like anything could could make him ill, could could harm him. And I think that's the perception I had. maybe naive as a child, but um when I heard the news, I was shocked because he'd talk about death so often and he'd make so many jokes about death even from when I was small and he was obviously in good health. Um, so it was such a shock hearing it and the lasting impressions I had of him and the emotions that came to mind when I heard the news were ones of positivity.
I was very grateful as Zachary mentioned um for the times that we'd spent together. I remember spending six week holidays here finding something to do with granddad sitting on the the ver. We have a view of pity Martinique from our verander as well and he'd tell us stories about how he'd swim from pity martik and back.
[laughter] So those type of memories I'd carry on with me. Um coming here to yesterday was very difficult because um usually I'd hear his voice or um you know his grally voice saying oh Noah the great, Solomon the great, Zachary the great. He go through all of the names of the grandchildren. Um and just he was very proud of his grandchildren as we were proud of him as well. And yeah, those are the lasting feelings I have of my grandfather.
Um, I remember it's funny because my mom and I were joking because I've started going to the gym. Granddad would always be the strong one. He's very imposing six-foot man, very strong. And this is my first time coming back as an adult.
And I was looking forward to comparing muscles with my granddad. And [laughter] so those are the things that obviously I wish had happened but I'm still thankful for the experiences that I had and very grateful for the turnout as well for everyone that come to remember um my grandfather with us as well. So thank you for coming.
>> Good afternoon everyone. Um, I had some stuff written down, but and I wasn't sure if I could say it. So, instead, I'll just talk from my heart the same way my brothers did.
I think, um, Father Time come to everyone, even even granddad apparently.
But I didn't think it ever would happen.
Um, I think that there will be a day to fully submerge in in sadness and and in grief for what we've lost.
But I don't think that's this day. I think this day is about celebrating the life of a man whose whose wisdom, whose kindness, whose whose love, whose lessons and kinship unite everyone in this room.
And I'm I'm in just as No and Zachary both said, I'm I'm so proud to be his grandson to to carry his legacy to to be the one with the batter now to to continue what he started. And yeah, I'm just I'm it's it's been tough, but I think knowing Grandad as we did, he wouldn't want us to to be sad for what we've lost, you He'd want us to be to be grateful for the memories, the the lessons, the time that we had together as as opposed to being sad. So, I think if there's anything that we do today, just remember everything that brought us here and everything that he was and that he will forever be. So, um yeah, just thank you all again for coming. We really do appreciate it.
And yeah, thank you. [applause] Well done. I would like to say a couple of words.
Um, we've heard a lot of tributes and testimony and we will probably hear some more about all of the things that people have received from dad. Um, I'm here to tell you what I've received. I received tutilage and I received love.
Uh the very first time I encountered dad um I was coming to Caraku for the very first time. Um to tell him my intentions towards his daughter uh and ask for his blessing um to take his daughter's hand in marriage which he duly agreed to. Um, this is where I learned the true meaning of the word patient man rides donkey.
Uh, he taught a very young 22 year old boy.
He sat me down and he explained to me the uh, I wouldn't say consequences, but I would say [laughter] I would say the eventuality of what I was intending. And uh he he poured into he poured me a drink and we sat down and since that day fourth we were like batty and bench. He if we had to go if he went if we went to pasture I was going to pasture. If we was killing cows or killing something I was killing something. If we were whatever pulling drawing water from the well I was drawing water. Um, yeah, he he just was everything. He was a man's man. If you were if you loved the outdoors, he was your man.
And I loved him for it. And he loved me.
And I'm forever grateful. Being a Jamaican, I we love a bad boy. And he was the black Clint Eastwood.
He was He was He was everything. He uh it was an honor. It was an honor being his son-in-law and even more so watching this man mountain be putty to his grandchildren.
Um they had the very best. They had a superman. He showed them how to fight, how to buck from if you want that trouble, that's what you give him. and you are just the the bests.
Um, I've been blessed to have leading patriarchs in my life. I've had two great-grandfathers who poured into me.
And now I have a father-in-law who loved me like I was his own. So today, a star returns to the stars of our celestial ancestors.
And I say thank you. I love you and I will miss you, Rest well. Take care, Dad. [applause] Um, I'd like to invite Mary Mary Kayen Elliot.
Good afternoon everyone. Well, it's actually it's morning now still. So, um I haven't um prepared anything to say. I was going to write um I was going, you know, you have plans when you have an event like this and you think, oh, you know, you're going to write something and but I'm going to speak from my heart. like dad as people saw him he was his face was always serious like this and you know they thought he was but with his children he was very very soft.
Me and my sister we never got beat ever.
Dad never laid a hand on us but Trevor obviously and Godwin you know but for us we never felt our parents' hand once. Um he was always you know when we were when Ann and I were children we had the nanny boat. Do you remember the nanny boat? An dad would have re really long legs and he'd put us in the middle of his legs and he'd rock us from side to side and pretend we were on this sort of ship.
And he was very kind to us. Um and when we came to Caraku, you know, we saw a different side to dad again because obviously he was in the pasture and he was working really really hard for his family. Um and I know for me I learned a lot from my dad. I mean, I learned I I know how to burn a coal pit.
I know how to um plant peas, corn. I know how to shell corn, wean corn, grind corn. I know how to do everything because of my dad. And he taught me how to use a cutlass. And I never forget the time when because as you know dad had plant and he would you would plant things but people would always go to planty wolf and and steal um and if he caught them they would know about it and I remember the time there was one time when I don't know if some of you were that are older might remember Boo. Do you remember um teacher Sami's brother from Brambe? Right.
Teacher Sammy. Um so Bookas was caught stealing a bunch. No, he didn't take one fig. He was stealing the whole bunch of figs. And dad and I were because I used to go to the pasture with my dad all the time. So dad and I, you know, he said, "Wait, wait." You know how he used to say wait. You know, when he said wait, he meant, you know, he's coming.
[laughter] And he saw Boas from the distance. And he said, "Okay, wait. I'll get you. And he snuck he snuck, you know, he got off his donkey and he snuck up to where Boas was. And that was Dad used to talk about plan all the time, but I never I never knew what he meant.
But when he caught Boo, Dad planked Boo so much. And you know, Boo used to drink his jack and he was he was red already from the sun and the rum. But dad plasted him. And I remember I was young.
I was probably I think I was about I think I was about I can't remember maybe just before I was 16 might be 15 or something and dad really plan bookers and he was skillful because for me I just knew he had a very sharp cut lass and I thought he would he would chop him but dad knew how to turn that cutlass to and he really he said I would drop lashing your ass and he and he really really plan Boo and Boo oh god cond oh god condodly and he and I felt sorry for him but you know now that I'm an adult woman and I know how hard my father worked. I would and I I told that to stop stop beating him. But now I think I wouldn't have I wouldn't have stopped him. I would have just filmed it because I know how hard my father worked and I know how he must have felt to see Bokos who wasn't working wasn't helping him just cut cut the whole bunch. He didn't leave dad any. He just cut the whole bunch and he was going with it. Anyway, so dad dad beat him badly and he never he might have stolen but he would have taken night to make day to steal from dad.
And then the next time I I saw my I saw my dad in a different light was um you all would also remember um cousin Bessie had a son that used to go off. Do you remember James? Right. So um dad and I used to as I said were going used to go to the pasture and we were going by cousin James in point. So we were coming from um where cousin Verer lives by cousit shop coming round on the donkey but that particular day James went off and actually he he that was the day that was the time when he he fatally killed somebody in in Caraku. So dad and I were walking on the donkey and people were running saying, "Oh god, oh god, James, oh god." Running from James and dad was just like on his donkey just slowly walking towards the trouble. And I was saying to dad, "Dad, no dad, we should go back." Dad said, "Go back for what?"
He said, "He's going by cousin James and he's not stopping for no one." And you know, he he carried on, but James was running running towards us with his cut lass. And as dad said, "You mustn't afraid." And he was so cool. And when James got to dad, my heart was beating.
I thought, "Dad, now is not the time to show that you're a bad man in Caraku.
Just let's go back." But he didn't. And he and James got to him. James lowered his cut glass and said, "Good afternoon, cousin Dudley."
And that and that said, "Good afternoon, James." And then James carried on terrorizing everybody. Do you see what I mean? So dad was really he wasn't Brian called him Clinton Eastwood. He was like a real bad man and I really felt protected by dad as I was growing up you know when I saw that side of him. But you know um those are the sort of some of the the memories that stick out in my mind about dad and Caraku. But you know like I said he taught me how to do everything. I I can burn a culpit. I know how to do those things. You know I know how to manage. And because I saw the benefit of what I got from coming to Caraku in the early days when there was no light, we were pit toilets, all of those things. I got the I knew the benefit of that. So when we had the book Dary Solomon and Noah, we want I wanted them to experience that because the generations coming up will never experience what dad or generations of that nature taught their grand. They won't get it because it doesn't exist in Caraku anymore. You know, everybody's got electricity. You know, we were under we were studying by candle light and going in pit toilets.
And dad used to say, you know, when me and an first came to Caraku, you know, we didn't want to eat some of the stuff.
Dad used to have pig heads calling on the calling on the on the galvanize and we didn't want to eat it. And dad used to say, "Are you too happy? Are you eat?" And we me and my sister used to say we didn't want it. But by the time me and my sister finished in Caraku for three years, we were eating pig head, pigtail, everything, you know, we were just we were eating everything. So, you know, dad, as my sister said, we were fighting over who got the meatiest part of the pigtail, you know, we were, you know, so our parents brought us to Caraku and we didn't understand then because we were young. When we got to Lorston, there was a little shack and we, you know, we didn't understand. But now I really know why and we got what we got from coming to Caraku as young children because we're very, you know, when other people were trying to make their children really British and you know they mom and dad just wanted us to be educated and they didn't dad didn't care whether the book was upside down or not as long as you had a book in your hand. He they just wanted us to be educated. They wanted us to have the experiences and the privileges that they didn't have, which we have. And they just wanted us to to to to be the best that we could be. Um, and like an said and boys have said, you know, I'm really really really proud of the legacy that dad has laid down for me, for my children. My husband now thinks he's a kayak, um, honorary kayak. And you know, I'm proud of my dad and I'm really really I'm very sad. You know, it wasn't easy seeing that grave being dug yesterday. It was hard for all of us, you know, but it has brought us together hopefully. And you know, a leg legacy is very important in families.
You know, you can't let it slip. And whilst I'm speaking about legacy, I really have to say this because mom and dad, we existed. We we we we we existed as a family. They my parents weren't greedy. They weren't land grabby. They didn't fight over dead left. They were very very proud people but they were proud with what they had and they raised their children properly.
Now in 2018 I came to the quashi reunion and when I looked up you see when you when you people see me as the the the the one that is the troublesome one but all I am is I I will call it if it's wrong I will say it's wrong and because I called it with a particular family member I came in 2018 to the quashi reunion and that person had removed us from the family tree they took us out of I looked up and I thought, "Where is Ena? Where is Dudley? Where is Trevor Godwin? Where are we? They removed us from the tree like we never existed."
And to me, I just want my my children to know we're not from that.
Ena and Dudley were good people. They weren't spiteful.
It's very evil to take a whole family out of a family tree because somebody because I stood up for what was right.
So let me tell you something those people and they know who they are.
I will always stand up for what's right.
I will always stand up for my parents and I'm not taking no nonsense. So when I saw that we were missing from the family tree. So remember, mom is the oldest granddaughter.
Dad married a quashi.
Mom should have been the first one on the list. Ena married Dudley. Dudley and Ena had four children. Trevor, Godwin, and Mary. Trevor had two children. Has two children, Joshua, Alexander, Shante.
Second son, Godwin has two sons, Joshua, Matthew, and Samuel.
third child an has one son Jacob and me I have three sons Zachary, Solomon and Noah. So we were missing from the family tree but we do exist and we are proud and just know don't let anybody sell you salt for sugar and smile in your face and pretend that they are family when they're not. And that's all I've got to say. Thank you.
Thank you.
Um, we have another uh song.
Okay. So now, um, we'd like to some more tributes from the friends of Mr. Dudley Cayenne.
Mary, if you'd like to, uh, read these, please.
Dexter, we've got a video tribute now with um Yes, it is.
All right. So, um the first tribute I have here was sent to me by a family friend. Um and this is she her name is an Dick.
Um and I'm going to read what she said.
Okay.
[clears throat] We've known her for a long time. Um, and she's she was very dear to my dad.
Right. Okay.
All right. Okay. So, what she's written is this. She said, "A tribute to Mr. Shepherd Dudley Cayenne. Is with great respect and sincerity that I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my cousin, Mr. Shepherd Dudley Cayenne, who served as both a guiding light and an unwavering source of strength during my formative teenage years. Mr. Cayenne exemplified the highest standards of kindness and generosity.
I recall the constantly warm welcome I received upon visiting his residence.
His genuine hospitality fostered an environment in which I felt acknowledged, valued and supported.
This remarkable quality was not only enriched has not only enriched our friendship but also positively influenced those around him. The legacy Mr. Cayenne leaves behind is like a flourishing garden of joy and cherished memories that will continue to thrive in the hearts of all who knew him. Each interaction held intrinsic value serving as a foundation for an enduring rec for enduring recollections that will remain with me indefinitely.
He was an extraordinary individual whose profound impact extended well beyond immediate community. Despite his physical absence, he will forever be an integral part of our lives. It is essential to recognize that those we cherish do not simply disappear. They continue to accompany us in spirit, shaping our perspectives and inspiring our endeavors. While we feel the significant void his departure creates, we will remember him as a guiding star, persistent in his influence, even when not visibly present. His legacy serves as a constant reminder of the illum of the illumination he brought into our lives. The world undeniably feels less vibrant without his comforting presence.
And the memories we cherish stand as a testament as a testament to the love and positivity he shared. Mr. Cayenne, your departure has left an undeniable gap in our lives. However, your spirit will continue to empower and inspire all whom you have touched through your kindness and compassion. May you rest in peace until we meet again, confident that your legacy will endure in the hearts of many. That was from an Dick.
Now I have, sorry, I've got people were sending me tributes. So I have one from um Don Quashi. Don is a family friend and you know and cousin and you know she's been in our lives for a long time her and her sisters.
She said, "Your mom and dad were lovely.
They are together in paradise and united together again just like they were in life.
They are both at peace and resting now.
They're both at peace and resting. Now, if you So, she has said she wants dad to rest in peace and she has fond memories of of dad. So, that's from Don and it's from Don um Valerie, Louise, and Michael. Cousin Lionel Quashi's children.
Then I have another one from Allison Maturine. Allison is the daughter of our we have a wonderful auntie called Auntie Princess and she is solid auntie.
Um and Allison has I printed these out and then I left them on the side in England. So that's [snorts] why I'm looking at the phone. Um okay. So this is what Allison has said.
>> [snorts] >> In loving memory of Dudley Shepherd Cayenne, good morning to all of you in the beautiful island of Caraku, especially my cousins Trevor, Godwin, Anne, and myself, Mary, and their families. She's very sorry she can't be with us, but she's with us in spirit.
She said, "Let me start by introducing myself to those who may not know me. My name is Allison, and I was fortunate to know um fortunate to be one of Dudley's nieces. I am addressing you from Huddersfield in England, the town where my late uncle and his wife Ena, my mother's eldest sibling, lived along with my first cousins before returning to Caraku to live a blessed life. [snorts] She thanks me for inviting her to share some of her wonderful memories and time spent with dad. On Wednesday [snorts] the 18th of March, 2026, during the night, I received a phone call from An.
I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was upset.
She had the task of delivering the saddest news. Sad because he was no longer with us. "He's gone," Anne said in her voice, full of tears. I later learned that the sweetest blessing from this news was the fact that he passed away peacefully [snorts] with his child, Trevor, by his side.
I and my mother and family members, especially my mom, take comfort in knowing this because, you know, dad never wanted to pass away with strangers. He said he wanted to have his children there because he thought they'd clean out the house before we got there.
So, you know, um, so Ohana is the Hawaiian word for family. My cousins and I along with my youngest sister grew up as siblings. Such was our relationship.
[snorts] Our home was her home. We visited their home on a regular basis. Uncle and auntie's marriage was a very traditional one. Auntie Ena was the home maker. More often than not, she was always dressed in her apron and love with her lovely lush thick braids hidden under a head tie. Oh boy, could she cook. Beautiful aromomas left the kitchen in three hillows lane in Huddersfield and filled the whole house. I remember eating my many bowls in England um and the Caribbean, especially her peas and dumpling soup. Nothing like soup out of a calabash. Uncle was the bread winner and he worked hard and long hours to provide for his family.
Although grant although um Uncle Dudley loved his pubs to me he was a family man. He was much loved a father figure and he always addressed me as Ally never by my full name as an adult. I recall being extremely ticklish as a child and still am today. Uncle and Trevor took great pleasure in tickling me until tears of laughter ran down my face.
Uncle always used to tell me I could I would talk fast like a parrot because the sentences to me which would again make me laugh. Uncle was not a man to be trifled with um and hid and he did not suffer fools. In 1983, uncle and auntie alongside Anne and Mary made a decision.
Well, my parents made the decision. We we had no choice. um made the decision to leave Huddersfield and return to Caraku. On June the 19th, they left England and months before their departure. It left me feeling sorrow and a little lost. Several visits to see them [snorts] have left so many memories, some of which stand out more than others.
Like the time I tried to ride Uncle's donkey, that donkey loved his master.
uncle's mode of transport. Never have I known such a faithful pet or beast of burden. [snorts] Now whilst that donkey was happy for me to feed it, it was in no way. It was now it was in no way on this side of her or Evan allowing me to climb on its back and ride it.
Not any time or anywhere.
Trust me when I say I tried. I'm laughing out loud now as I remember this. Uncle Dudley was of no assistance. He was too busy laughing at me. When there were then there were the time there was a time when Becky, my daughter who's nine who was nine years old, was being plagued by mosquitoes. Uncle had the perfect remedy. Pass me the jacken.
He exclaimed as they don't like the mosquitoes don't like jack.
Well, as far as I am concerned, jack was for drinking.
Couldn't there be some other type of alcohol that we could use like rubbing alcohol, the repellents, etc. we brought with us were not a deterrent for those bad boy mosquitoes.
Well, he was right. They didn't like the taste and it gave Becky a little spite from the bites.
He was not only my uncle but an excellent brother-in-law to my mom, Princess. She was very upset to say the least when I broke the news to her of his passing. She has asked me to extend condolences and love on her behalf. Due to illness, she's unable to travel and attend the service in person. Mom didn't just gain a brother-in-law. She gained a true friend and a brother in every sense of the word in Dudley.
The the love Uncle Dudley lavished on his family remains a true testament to his character and the legacy he leaves behind. He and Auntie Ena together were truly the anchors of their family.
There's so much more I could share, but alas, it's time to say farewell. So many memories of the times we spent together.
And even though you are no longer here, I will cherish them forever. Thank you for being a part of my journey and story and for the love and joy and laughter.
You are my dearest uncle.
My you, my dearest uncle, have fought a good fight that is called the race of life. You have finished the course.
You finished the course. So until I see your smile and hear your laughter again, I will hold you in my heart. Rest in peace, Love Ally. [snorts] Oh gosh, sorry. There's one more. Well, there's two more actually. Unless anybody wants to come up and say anything because you're invited to come up if you want to. Um the next one is from um our family friend Annette.
Annette was my bridesmaid in Caraku. I'm so very sorry to hear of the loss of your father Mary. [snorts] His life was one well-lived. Fearlessly leaving our beloved Caribbean. fearlessly leaving our beloved Caribbean to the harsh weather and culture of England with his family establishing strong roots in some in the sometimes hostile land not getting trapped here like so many before him with dreams of going home but never returning [snorts] return home he did with his beloved Miss Ena starting a whole new chapter and continuing to cultivate a love for Caraku amongst his children and grandchildren going on to share that love of Caraku with those grandchildren who learned to love Caraku firsthand from lived experiences. Still cultivating the land like a young man on his donkey with his cutlass in hand deep into his older years. Proudly going on to love, cherish, and care for Miss Ena when her health declined.
continuing to live life after her passing and to cherish his family when others may have given up. Truly a life well-lived. I'm deeply sorry for your loss, Annette. [snorts] Okay, now we've got a audio tribute by um um Auntie Billina um Dexter.
[snorts] Good morning everyone.
My name is Belina Shakespeare.
I am Dudley's sister-in-law.
Dudley was a very kind and helpful to my mom.
He used to visit his aunt P every week, two days a week. At every week, other week, he would bring up a string of fish and a bundle of food for my mom. He would bring the donkey up to my mom pasture. The donkey would pray every time at 4:00 he would leave his hand and visit my mom. My mom would cook. My mom would would cook stand. My mom would stand and see him when he was coming. My mom would always prepare a meal for him.
The bundle of food he prepare was nicely cut.
Nicely cut.
I have to laugh. [laughter] My My mom would always tell him to make sure he found a nice girl to marry. [laughter] SHE SHE WAS SHE WAS SO glad when she found out it was Ena. She said, "Oh, she's worth it, Dudley.
You will always be in my heart. Rest in peace with your lovely wife. Thank you all."
>> We have one more.
I have a tribute on behalf of Joe Cayanne and their family from London.
Uncle Dudley, darling love. You've transcended from this earth, but never left our hearts.
It's not just your absence we mourn, but the silence where your voice used to be.
the comfort of your hugs when we came to visit and the light you brought into our life. Your loss echoes forever. Fly high until we meet again. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much. Um I'd like to invite you all to stand uh while we sing.
It is well with my soul.
Dexter.
When peace like [singing] a river attended [music and singing] my way.
When sorrows like [music and singing] sea belows a road, whatever [singing] my love, thou hast taught me [music] to Say [singing] it is well.
It is well [singing] with my soul.
It is well.
>> [music] >> is well >> with my soul.
>> with [music] my [singing] soul.
It is [music] well.
It is well [singing] with my soul. [music] Though [singing] Satan should buff it, [music] no trials [singing] should come.
Let [music and singing] this blessed assurance [music] consume [singing] that Christ has regarded my helpless sustained [music] and passed his of the blood for my soul.
[singing] [music] And Lord, haste the day when my face [music and singing] shall be sight.
The clouds be [music] roll by [screaming] as [music] the [screaming] trump shall be sound and [music] the Lord he shall say praise the Lord.
PRAISE the Lord, [screaming] oh my soul.
It is well [singing] with [music] my soul.
My soul is well. [music] MY SOUL [music] is way my SOUL IS WELL [music] my soul. [screaming] He is well with my soul.
>> [music] >> It [singing] is well.
[music] It is well, [singing] my soul.
>> [music] >> Um you can stay seated while we we are going to sing great is my faithfulness.
Slight alteration from the scheduled events.
[music] [music] Great is thy faithfulness, oh God, my [music] father.
There is no shadow of turning with the [music] thou changees not your compassions they feel not as you have been you forever will be somewhere Summer and winter and springtime and harst. [music] Sun, moon, and star in the courses above.
Join with all nature in manifold witness to your great [music] faithfulness, mercy and love.
Great is your faithfulness. [music] Great is your faithfulness.
Morning by morning, [music] new mercies I see.
All I [music] have needed your hand have provided.
Great is your [music] faithfulness to me. [music] [music] You're a pardon for sin [music] and a peace that endure.
Oh dear presence [music] to guide strength for today [music] and hope for tomorrow your blessings are mine [music] with 10 beside.
Oh, great is your faithfulness.
Great [music] is your faithfulness.
Morning by morning. [music] New mercies I see.
All I [music] have needed your hand provided. [music] GREAT is your faithfulness.
GREAT IS [music] YOUR FAITHFULNESS.
Great is your faithfulness.
Lord [screaming] to me [music] [music] [music] slight amendment to the programmed events. We have a couple of video tributes. one to by um Mr. Ken's grandchildren and one featuring his brothers. So please fix that.
[music] He's my brother.
He's my brother.
Yes, he is.
He ain't heaven.
He ain't heaven.
He's my brother.
Offering time [singing] as a sacrifice What's the asking price behind [singing] so You promise then you f But I won't be your kitty pooling around with your I'd like to invite Solomon to come and do a reading, please.
Okay.
In in Proverbs 20 and 7, it tells us that the righteous man walks [snorts] with integrity and blessed are his children who follow.
My granddad lived a good life.
He was committed to hard work in his family and he was a generous man. I pray that his life on this earth is not in vain and that he's forgiven of any sins and granted eternal peace and happiness as he's reunited with my grandma. Amen.
Further reading by Shante.
Okay.
Noah, I'd like to invite you to come and do your reading.
The Bible quite rightly tells us to honor our father and mother.
To honor my granddad today is not just to remember him with words, but rather carry his love forward. His commitment to hard work and toil, his loving nature, and more importantly, the example he set for how a granddad should love unconditionally.
I pray on behalf of myself, my brothers and cousins that we carry his legacy forward into our own lives so that one Today we can live this example.
Granddad's life was the seed and we are the fruit. Amen.
Thank you. Um The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in the green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
For you are with me.
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare me. You prepare for me. Uh you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Mr. Crispen Host will lead the official service for dad now. Thank you.
My test pleasant. Good afternoon to one and all.
We have reached the official aspect of our this proceeding.
We are here today to celebrate the life of Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Kayan, a wonderful husband, a father, a grandfather, a brother, and a friend.
Today we'll be looking at from the Bible, the book of Hebrews, chapter 9 and verse 27.
A very familiar scripture.
family in the sense that what's reality is all about and the Bible said in the book of Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 27 it's appointed unto man once to die and after this comes the judgment he have lived he have loved and now he is dead and as we look at that scripture there is two basic principles principle that applies to every human being.
One we see the appointment of death.
I said the appointment of death and I classify death as Mr. the dead because when you think of death and you think of life both of them have to coexist.
So we live and then the process will die.
As I said the appointment of death in our lives we make various appointments.
We may make appointment to the doctor.
make appointment for a job.
But with this appointment that we make in the physical sense, there is no guarantee that you will be successful because you might make an appointment to the doctor and that appointment is not fulfilled. You might make an appointment for a job and that job is not fulfilled.
But when it comes to death, every one of us must accept that appointment.
You see when that appointment of death comes, brothers and sisters, friends, you and I cannot shy away from it. You know, when I think about it also, you know that we have our our cellular phones. We have our phones in our possession and sometimes someone may call us on a phone and we could decline the call. But when death comes knocking at our door, none of us cannot decline debt. And I also know and you also know brothers and sisters, friends that debt goes wherever we go.
Death is our companion.
When we are going to sleep, death is there. When we are going to walk, death is there. When we are going to play, death is there. So death accompany us wherever we go. And the thing that happens to one, it happens to all. And death is no respector of person.
So no matter who you are or who I am, death don't respect no one.
So we have walked with that. You know, I was looking at someone. You know, sometimes people believe that based on I have my physics because I might eat good and I exercise. Still that does not guarantee you live long. Listen to this.
Life only exists as a result of the grace of God.
You and I are existing here because of the grace of God. Mr. Shepherd was able to exist by the grace of God. And God have given us as he said man that is born of a woman is a few days and full of sorrow or trouble. But Mr. The shepherd was able to exist to the extent beyond the life that God have given. As he said in the word, man shall live through his score and 10. But he lived beyond that. And you as his children and his grandchildren have to be thankful that God have blessed him with such a longity of life that you today have the experience of all what he went through and you was able to share it in your tribute.
He had lived a leg legacy that today you can see and you are able to benefit from today brothers and sisters friend life as I said or death is man's greatest enemy man's greatest enemy is death but we know that Jesus Christ came to conquer death and today we can be liberated by Jesus Christ and as the Bible said who the son of man set free is free indeed and we can be free from death because Jesus Christ came to conquer death today brothers and sisters friends I said it doesn't matter who you are it doesn't matter who I am death is no respector of person I was saying to one recently just as we are able to decline a cell phone call just as we have we sometimes times don't want to answer the call when we see who is calling. If only we could have declined that be good.
If only we could have postponed death, it would have been nice.
But one thing we know for a fact, brothers and sisters, when death comes knocking at our door, no one cannot decline.
And the thing about it, he don't tell us when he come in. Hello.
There was a man once he said he was He dreamed that he was dying. You run out to see him looking up.
Death doesn't tell you when he coming.
He comes unexpected.
You could be walking, death take you right there. You could be sitting, you could be sleeping, whatsoever you are doing, death comes at any time. But one thing we know for a fact, the Bible also remind us that after this comes the judgment.
When I read my Bible and when you read to the second book of Corinthians 5 and verse 10, the Bible said, "For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God to give account of our life." When I look at the world today, a lot of us are playing around with life.
You know, I was just listening recently of the tragic circumstances of a 16-year-old taking the life of a 66 year old.
I also had the privilege before I came here to have gone to one of the primary school to some students who have to set the CPA exam. And the principal called me in to pray on the behalf. And I'm saying today as parents, we have to be praying over our children.
We have to be constantly speaking for over our children. We also have to be pleading the blood of Christ of God over our children because this wall out there don't concern, don't care too much of our children. This wall out there is cruel and is destroying so many of our children and to sad. As I was saying to the students, could you imagine a young boy at that age when he should be do going to school when he should be doing something of value of great value to be a source of encouragement to young people and to a source of encouragement to the community and to bring hope and joy to the young people. Today he's behind bars.
People are moaning. People are groaning.
And today as young people, I always like to address young people. You must always remember to take the directive from your parents.
Listen to the instruction of your parents. Also listen to the instruction of God. I always say two things about young people. God said in his word, Ephesians chapter 6 and verse one, he said, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." He said, "Honor your father and your mother, which is the first covenant with a promise that your days may be long, and you're going to live well." Today, we have a lot of children are going through difficulties as a result of the failure to be obedient to the parents. Today we have a lot of young people are going through problem because of the failure to obey their parents. Today brothers and sisters we are here to witness a sad moment but it's also a joyful moment because the Bible remind us he say when someone die in the Lord is a blessing and if you and I today live for the Lord when we die is going to be a blessing. It is a blessing for those who die in the Lord. So I'm saying to you today, every single one of us have an opportunity to give our life to God. So when we die, God will say to us at that day, well done, good and faithful servant.
He said is appointed on man once to die and after this comes the judgment. I have never been before a judge. I don't know how much of you have been before a judge. I know for a fact when I pass through Haru Hillsboro to be precise. I can know I have known I have seen when these young men are going before the judge or the we say the magistrate because of the way they dress. You can identify the young men when they have to face the magistrate because even though when the time they they have to face the magistrate, you see how they dress. They dress sometimes with their pants down and they dress all kind of how but when they have to face that magistrate or the judge, I see them in short in the pants.
I see them in long sleeve and they're well attired because you know they have to face the judge. And brothers and sisters, the Bible remind us also it is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God. I know many of you in Caru you had a magistrate up here and I know many people in Caru was scared when they had us to face that judge or that magistrate whose name was Jerry. But I am saying to you brothers and sisters, friends, Jerry cannot be compared to Jesus because the Bible said when we stand before Jesus, we shall give account of our life and no one is escaping.
You see there is no escaping from the judgment. We can escape from a lot of things in this life but when comes to judgment and death there is no escaping.
You see we have some people in this world today because of their position because of the status in life they feel they have power and I can say of one president as we know Trump he believes that he have power but I'm saying his power is not greater than Jesus he will also stand before God to give account no one is exempting you might believe that you're big and you're bad today but when you fall before Jesus he said every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. You know some people want to denounce God today. A lot of people as we say there are atheists in the world today don't believe that there is a God.
But the Bible also said the fool have said in his heart there is no God. Look at what is happening. Just look at the world. He said the invisible things are clearly seen that there is a God.
Brothers and sisters, friends, when I saw I was living in Bushu prior to burial and when I look at the the the news and when I look at the weather channel, I say hello, let me take it down to Grenada because I'm from Grenada.
So I take my bags and I went home.
But because of the minister of the church after the hurricane, I had us to keep in contact with the bre. But contact was there was no connection. So the only form of connection I has to travel on Osprey like you know I was holding Osprey.
So I had to be back and forth. And when I came up the day after the hurricane or the second day after the hurricane and when I look at the destruction of Kaku I said thank be to God. It was the hands of God was on the people of Kaku. That is why we didn't have so much debt.
Because when I look at the destruction of the buildings and the lands and other things, I say it is only the mercy of God that was on the people. It was God mercy because look at some of the destruction and someone said it was God mercy. That is why happened in the day.
Brothers and sisters, God is good.
And all the time, you know, a lot of times, brothers and sisters, we don't recognize the goodness of God. We don't recognize the goodness of God only when we are in need. I said to some person recently, many of us only use God like a tele machine. Hello.
Many of us only use God as a closed closet. Only when we need certain clothes, we go to the closet for it.
Only sometimes when we need money, we go to the teleian. Brothers and sisters, God have been too good to us to be treated like that. And so I am saying to you death is a reality. Death will happen to everyone and it is no respect to a person. But I'm saying to you today, I'm saying to myself today, I'm saying to every one of us, everyone have an opportunity to give their life to God. And as I said, if you know and I know that we are going to die one day, what is the best thing we need to do?
You know for a fact brothers and sisters, friends that every one of us make preparation in life. Isn't that so?
As I speak, many people make prep preparation for the debt because they they sign up with Lacqua.
Some of them sign up with artway. So they paying the Jews for debt preparation. As I speak, many people are making preparation to travel. As I speak, many people are making preparation to marry. As I speak, many people are making preparation to do all sort of things. But how many persons are making preparation to meet God? Hello?
Because we know for brothers and sisters whether you believe it and listen to this because I want to end quick. Listen to this.
Two things that is sure.
We are going to die one day.
We does not know when. We does not know how but we are going to die. And secondly, God is going to come. Whether you believe it or not, the fact is the fact.
You see a lot of times in life, we doesn't believe not believe certain things. You know before burial came you know a lot of cars didn't believe hurricane would have come in caru and they were complacent before burial came to this island a lot of people in caru were complacent and pity matnik also when they hear about hurricane they was thinking about grenada and other island but I know for a fact after barrel came knocking on this island no more cars will be complacent because I know for a fact this hurricane season that is coming up if they hear that tropical depression number one is approaching Caraku most car will take he brothers and sisters but I'm saying this a hurricane will able to destroy our physical body our physical thing but one thing we need to know that if we fail to be obedient to God our soul which is the most important thing will be destroyed as the Bible said, "Fear him not who can destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul and cast it into hell."
Brothers and sisters, today we are here to celebrate the life of Mr. Shepherd.
But I just want to enlighten us to realize life is short, death is sure, sin is the cause, but Christ is the cure. We have a cure today. I always say to people, the most dangerous disease that the world ever have and will ever have is not AIDS, is not hobies, is not diabetes, but is sin. Because the Bible say for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Eternal life can be yours.
Eternal life can be mine if only we trust and obey. As the song said, trust and obey. For there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
Will you trust him today?
Will you trust him today? Because Jesus, as the song said, is the answer for the world today. Without him there is no order for Jesus is the way. The way is not in the politician because they will make promises and they cannot ful fulfill promises.
But I am saying to you when Jesus made a promise he will fulfill his promise. He said come unto me all he that labor and are heavy laden and I'm going to give you rest. Brothers and sisters, he also said in Matthew chapter 14 verse 1-2, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house, a many mansion. If it was not so, I have told you, I have gone to prepare a place for you. And if I go, I will come again to receive you unto myself that where I am, you may be also, brothers and sisters, where better to be.
Look at the world today. I was just speaking to the the the principal of the school.
The ministry or the government said no burning. Hello.
On our way coming up fire next thing I see the fire service have to live and we got think about it the limited water resources we have in Caro.
But people don't think lack of consideration And so I'm saying to us today, you and me and everyone have to think about when we dead, where are we going to spend the rest of our life. That is a question for every single human being to ask themselves.
And don't be fooled and say like others, when you're dead, you're done. That is a lie from the pit of hell.
There is life after death and life is in Christ. Life is in God. Today you and me have opportunity to choose life. Jesus God said I place before you life and death, blessing and cost but choose life.
He also said to the Israelite to end, "Come and let us reason together, said the Lord, though your sins be as scal as white as snow." Brothers and sisters, you and I know when our clothes are dirty or stained, we use bleach. And today, if we have stain with sin, we have the blood of Christ who can cleanse us from all sin.
I want to say thank you for listening and I want to also encourage the family to realize stay focused stay committed stay united because our united people will always stand and today we have you know I will just end by saying that you know as the the young sister was saying about the family tree you know one of the bond of a family is is the mother and the father and most of the time I have seen in my life when mommy and daddy die the family you know that I see many families end up disintegrated when mommy and daddy die is like a doggy dog fighting over this and fighting over that brothers and sisters one thing we need to fight for is our salvation and we can only gain it in Jesus Christ. Thank you and God bless.
Thank you, Mr. Holston. Very wise words.
We have a video tribute for dad and mom.
Act like water is too hard.
You and I.
You and I. [singing] I am [singing] glad at least in my life I found that may not be here forever.
to see [singing] me through.
But I found [singing and music] strength in you.
I only pray that I have shown you a bright day because that's [music and singing] all that I am living for.
You see, [music] don't worry to me. [singing] [singing] You will stay here.
Love you and I. [singing] You and [music] I.
You and I.
You and I.
We can coner the world.
and love you and I you and Whisper to me softly. Three words.
No one's nearby.
Hold me close.
Feels right here. [singing] Peace and love. I'm here. Look, come and look for you, girl.
[music] >> [music] >> Dad, come on. Dance.
>> You dance.
>> Yes, you can.
>> No, you're not finished.
[music] [music] >> You can dance with your walker.
[music] family.
>> I want to see you dance with you, Walker.
[music] >> Come on, Dad.
>> Dad, [music] >> yeah.
Stand up and dance.
>> Stand up and dance with your walker.
[music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Thank you for my love.
Hello everyone. Um, we've come to um we've come to the end of the service now and I just wanted to say for on behalf of our entire family, I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming and for being a part of my our dad's life. Um, I also want to There's a few people I want to thank actually. Um, my friends in England, you know, all those that helped with the the nine night and brought some caraku to it, cousin Joyce's daughter, Michael, cousin Vera's daughter and son and Anthony Boatswain who was the loudest person in the place. Um, it was just beautiful. And I want to say thank you also to um some people that have gone along the way who have been a huge part of my dad's life. Dr. Davis who was very instrumental in dad's care and dad really had a lot of love for Dr. Davis.
Um I want to thank um Lincoln in the UK. I want to thank my children for helping out. I want to thank Brian actually. I've really had to lean on my family in this time. Um Brian's been very patient. Um so I'm sure it's going to be back to usual now.
No patience. Um but I want to thank I don't know if anybody else and that you want to thank I don't want to miss anybody out. I want to thank people who have come from abroad. I want to thank um I don't want to miss anyone out but there's loads of people. To everybody that was part of this, I want to say thank you and I want to thank everybody that really supported our family and my father in particular after Barl >> because we were devastated by Barl and we were he was really well accommodated at Lena >> and you know we didn't have anywhere to go and we were taken in at Lena and you know My cousin George, I really thank you for that. Our father was an old man when this happened to him and you know we people were really in dire situations. So I was very grateful because I was conscious of our father's age at the time of this happening. So I'm very grateful all the people that came and saw him and made the effort to speak to him and come and see him in I'm really I would like to thank all of you for that. The nurses at Mount Pleasant, you love those girls coming to take his blood pressure. You know they were kind to him. Everybody that showed my father kindness everybody every when I'm out and about going on my run. They've got a sour sap for me. They've got sapadilla peas for me. Given me things for my father. I thank you all very much. You know who you are. Always have something to offer me for my father. Thank you very much for your kindness towards him.
>> Okay. So, I think we've got the last um >> we're going to do a >> So, as you all know, dad really loved Gregory Isaacs and he loved to dance. As you could see in the video, he was always dancing. So, um, I'd like to call the grandchildren who are going to lead my dad out and, um, to dad's favorite Gregory Isaac song, actually. Um, so Zachary, Joshua, Noah, and Solomon, and Shante will lead Grandad out as Dexter plays dad's favorite song.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> met today. We had a quar in the [music] toy here. No.
So come on, [music] let's talk things over honey. Life is so mysterious. [music] You [music] know I'll give to you almost everything I own in the world [music] for you just like rolling stone. But woman don't give me benefit. I promise I [music] can't give you my love alone.
No, I [music] can't give you my love alone.
>> [music] >> You know I [music] give to you almost everything I hold in the world for you just like a rolling stone. [music] But woman don't keep me if I promise I [music] can't give you my love alone.
No, I can't give you my love alone. [music] Get [music] to the street to [music] the goodness that I need.
But woman [music] don't care. Even if I promise, I can't give you my love alone. [music] No, I can't give you my love alone.
[music] It's the truth. I just can't tell.
[music] Still, I want you by my side. [music] But woman don't keep even if I promise I can't give you my love alone. [music] No, I can't give you my love alone.
[music] Woman, I love you.
Woman, I need [music] you.
I can't give you my life [music] alone.
[music] [music] Still I want you by my side.
[music] But woman don't care. Even if I promise [music] I can't give you my love alone.
No, I can't give you my love [music] alone.
>> Woman, I love you, woman. [music] I need you, but I can't give you my love alone.
[music]
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