First Anniversary of Sir John passing to be observed Sunday
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 – Sunday the seventh of September will mark the first anniversary of the death of former Saint Lucia Prime Minister, Sir John Compton. The giant Caribbean leader died last September at the age of 82 from complications resulting from a series of strokes he suffered in May 2007.
Plans are in motion to celebrate the legacy of late Saint Lucian leader, and the GIS spoke to his widow Lady Janice Compton on how the family will be remembering Sir John. She said the family would like the nation to remember the late prime minister in his living years rather than to focus on his death.
“I recognize that there are some people who called me from Canada and New York wanting to come down assuming that there will be a memorial service. The family will be going to church on the actual date to remember him quietly in our own way and we'd like to ask those who really cared for Sir John to do the same. Those who are church going people to say a prayer for the nation, and that it stays on the right path—the path that he wished for it,” Lady Compton said.
Lady Compton also expressed her appreciation for the strong wave of public support and anticipation of the erection of a Sir John memorial in the capital city. No information, about such a memorial, has been released by government, but Lady Compton thinks Sir John would be touched by the gesture.
“I know that our well known sculpture Ricky George has been approached and Ricky had wanted to do a sculpture of him long before died actually and I'd actually discussed it with him. There are a lot of people who say they would like to contribute to such a sculpture,” she said. |
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