Percy Haynes, a legendary Guyanese-born public servant, and communications media big, who handed away on Thursday, June 27, was celebrated as a well-loved, good, and religious man, throughout a house going service on Sunday, July 7. He was 94.
Associates, household, and colleagues packed St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church at 331 Hawthorne St. in Brooklyn, the Home of Prayer the place the person of God and spouse Ave Marie have been married and worshiped.
Haynes, writer of “Past Bourda Inexperienced” a memoir printed in 2011 and named for the cricket floor reverse his boyhood dwelling in Georgetown, was laid to relaxation on July 8, after a three-hour service, that celebrated the distinguished life he lived.
The well-choreographed Mass of the Resurrection, with a procession to the alter, saluted the tip of an excellent son of Guyana’s soil, whose outstanding contributions, and steadfast dedication to educating himself, and sharing his expertise, will dwell, on within the hearts and minds of all who knew him.
“With religion in Jesus Christ, we obtain the physique of our brother Percy. Ship your servant Percy, O sovereign Lord Christ from all evil and set him free from each bond that he could relaxation with all saints within the everlasting habitations, have been the phrases of consolation expressed by Jamaican-born, The Very Reverend Canon Donovan I. Leys, priest, and rector, who presided over the funeral service.
Hymns, Wonderful Grace, and “Right here I’m Lord, have been sung heartily by congregants, many who paid illustrious tributes to the fallen hero.
Readings from Psalms 23 by sister Thelma Haynes-Seaford, First Corinthians by Vincent Inexperienced, and intercessory prayers by Michell Mackenzie, have been scriptures of comfort.
Son Lyndon Dave Haynes, known as the late patriarch an excellent human being, and supportive father. “My father cherished our household. Dad’s memoir information the passing of my mother, Elvira, and the successes of their six kids. His reminiscence, along with the journals that he had been preserving for years, aided his guide. Inside these paperwork, some made public in his memoir, are the profound feelings of my dad who cherished and took care of his household,” mentioned Lyndon.
“He not solely loved spending time along with his beloved spouse, Ave Marie, but in addition his kids, their spouses, grandchildren, expensive sister Thelma, nieces, nephews, and buddies. He precedes two brothers and a sister,” Lyndon added.
“As I keep in mind my dad, I’ve a imaginative and prescient of a humble man, considered one of endurance and kindness, one who was involved about his household to the tip, one who as his life ebbed, cared about Ave Marie, his widow, and extra son, Raymond,” mentioned Lyndon.
Photograph by Tangerine Clarke
Dr. Vibert Cambridge, professor emeritus Media Arts & Research, Schoonover Middle Ohio College, a longtime pal, and colleague in a tribute learn by Rose October, remembered Haynes, as a superb journalist on the Guyana Chronicle working in the course of the late Forties beneath the supervision of a retired headmaster from Buxton, Mr. G. H. A.
“As a journalist his “beats” included the “public hospital in Georgetown, the magistrates’ courtroom, the Supreme Court docket and the Parliament. In 1948, the then 18-year-old journalist was submitting tales from Bartica in regards to the city’s position in any large-scale growth scheme of British Guiana’s unexplored hinterland,” mentioned Dr. Cambridge.
“He later filed tales from New Amsterdam. Inside a decade, he grew to become a district info officer within the British Guiana Authorities Data Companies (GIS), the place he grew to become concerned in public communication campaigns,” mentioned Dr. Cambridge.
In his memoir, Percy acknowledged, “I used to be recruited in a public relations marketing campaign by the colonial authorities to win the hearts and minds of the folks within the rural areas.”
“In 1978, Percy was posted to the Guyana Excessive Fee in London as deputy excessive commissioner. It was right here that he “encountered an instance of how sensational information gadgets can disfigure the picture of our nation.” He was referring to the fallout from Jonestown.
“After his return to Guyana within the Nineteen Eighties, Percy continued his profession in utilized communication, serving on the Guyana Broadcasting Company (GBC) and later because the communications advisor to President Desmond Hoyte and the director of communications on the Workplace of President Desmond Hoyte,” mentioned Dr. Cambridge, former president of the Guyana Cultural Affiliation NY, Inc.
“Haynes went on to excel after immigrating to the US, incomes a grasp’s diploma in English from Brooklyn School, Haynes, later turning into an English professor on the Borough of Manhattan School and the School of New Rochelle, Bronx campus,” concluded Dr. Cambridge.
“I be a part of with my colleagues of the Guyana Cultural Affiliation of New York, Inc. to specific our sincerest condolences to his partner, our president Ave Maria Brewster-Haynes, and all of the members of Percy’s household,” mentioned the assertion.
Haynes who was celebrated with “Final Rose of Summer time” and “Wings of Son” a flute duet by grandchildren Samori and Jasmine Williams, “and a compelling solo of “Ave Marie” (spouse’s title) sung by soprano, Heather Peterson, was remembered by President of the Guyana Tri-State Alliance, Patricia Jordan-Langford.
“My heartfelt condolence to the household, stating, “Thelma Haynes-Seaforth, the particular love that you simply shared with our brother Percy will all the time be with you each step that you simply take. My Heartfelt sympathy.
“Vanessa, Charles, Rosalind, Paul Olabisi, Lyndon, and Bernard. Your father’s love will dwell on in your hearts all the time. My sympathy to all of you for this painful loss. To his beloved grandchildren Blessings from above. To complete household and buddies So sorry for the Loss,” mentioned Jordan-Langford.
“Percy Haynes was a gentleman that epitomized overcome adversity. He lived his life with the assumption that the human spirit can climb any mountain, together with the ability of resilience. Together with his mom and grandmother’s steerage and teachings, he believed that his poor circumstance might change, as a result of. “The sunshine of a brand new day will lastly daybreak.” Percy all the time mirrored on the numerous anecdotes he realized from his mom, particularly those on the ability of schooling.”
“If I can do my responsibility as a very good man ought, If I can deliver again magnificence and light-weight to a world that’s darkish. If I can unfold love every single day as The Grasp taught, then my dwelling shall not be in useless.”
“Ave Maria Brewster Haynes, my honest condolences. Each you and Percy have been really blessed when your lives intertwined and have become one,” mentioned Jordan-Langford.
The affectionate religious celebration was additionally officiated by The Reverend Canon Edmund Alleyne, Caniggia Palmer, organist, and Heather Peterson, cantor.
