St Lucy man remembered for family, church ties

Relatives were Monday remembering a St Lucy man who died following a car crash on Saturday night as a good churchman, husband, father, brother and friend.

George Williams was a back-seat passenger of a vehicle whose driver lost control and struck a utility pole along KNR Husbands Highway near Speightstown around 9:35 p.m. on Saturday. He died in hospital the next day around 1 p.m.

Speaking to reporters on Monday at their Woodbourne, St Lucy home, widow Denise Williams said she was still in shock at her husband’s tragic death, saying that she prayed deeply for his recovery but doctors were frank to her about the severe head injuries he sustained.

“The church and everybody were praying, so I was hoping that you know, he would really survive, but the doctor said it was really serious, she said. “If he had made it, there would have been brain damage because of the blow he got to his head.”

George Williams’ son Roshawn and his widow Denise.

Williams described her late husband as an easy-going person, who was also dedicated to his church life.

“He was a fun person, a life of the party when there was anything you know. He was that type of person,” she told reporters.

“He was involved with the church for quite some years. At one time he was an in-house pastor, he was a worship leader, played the keyboard and the bass. He was very active.

“It’s sad it’s so sudden you know… I just did not expect this.”

Son Roshawn Williams, 23, remembered his father as a loving and jovial person who also showed an interest in agriculture.

He said: “The talks, we were more like best friends. The talks, the drives, the advice, all of our play fights [when] he said he could beat me,”

“He could look at any plant, tell you the scientific name, and everything.”

A distraught Marian Harvey, George Williams’s mother-in-law recalled having had a good relationship with him and insisted a good family man was lost.

Marian Harvey

“He would get up like on a morning, like on a Saturday or Sunday and he would say honey what you want, and I would say your food here, and he would say alright he would eat it,” said Harvey. “So when he is going work on a Saturday, I would give him some lunch to take out with him… we will miss a good man. He is a good man, respectable and all of that, but I don’t know what else to say; it just tore me apart.

“We lost a good man, a father, a brother, a friend, lord I don’t know what else.”

George Williams worked at Royal Westmoreland as a gardener and also did part-time work at a Rubis service station. (SB)