20-08 2020 03:58
wrote:
Papa Roy - my dear Father-in-Law, you will be deeply missed. I will always remember the first day I met you, when Jeremy and I came to see you upon your return from holiday with Moma Sybil - late 1998/early 1999. Your bright smile and eyes with a cheerful demeanor. And when I look at our daughter Anna-Marie I see your eyes.
You were always athletic with your religious tennis routine at Petrotrin Grounds Tuesdays and Thursdays....thus encouraging us and Moma to be healthy.
And I won’t ever forget so many things:- like the bottles of Nuni water, “yam” season and you teaching the children how to dig yam, the memorable plum tree with the curve that we all sat in and chit-chatted on, your stories of yesteryear about working at FedChem, the click-click-clicking of your camera whenever we came to visit- to truly capture those memory building moments, the certificates on The Wall, stories of you DJ’ing on a Friday night, how much you were involved in building the Piparo church community, your dedication in volunteering at the Community Centre, that you needed to eat promptly at Noon and dinner by 4pm, 5 pm for the latest, how you showed me how you use to organize the freezer with food for easy prep, how you will ask “what you drinking?” and then get from “the stash”, how you and Mom put away a fig tree for us and it ended up growing and bearing right in the yard, how you were forever planting something, your blue room, the hedge of Joseph coat plants which you maintained so well,, the strange metal thing that you always warned our curious children not to touch, you arranging the photography for our wedding with such excellence. And so many more memories.
You will very be missed and the children (Carmel, Joshua and Anna-Marie) are truly sadden by your departure but know you are smiling down on them.
I am sorry that I never got to say goodbye. That you were an awesome Father-in-Law and to tell you that we love you very much. May God look kindly upon all your good deeds and grant you His favor and eternal Rest In Peace in His heavenly kingdom.
Love,
Alicia
19Aug2020
20-08 2020 03:58
wrote:
Papa Roy - my dear Father-in-Law, you will be deeply missed. I will always remember the first day I met you, when Jeremy and I came to see you upon your return from holiday with Moma Sybil - late 1998/early 1999. Your bright smile and eyes with a cheerful demeanor. And when I look at our daughter Anna-Marie I see your eyes.
You were always athletic with your religious tennis routine at Petrotrin Grounds Tuesdays and Thursdays....thus encouraging us and Moma to be healthy.
And I won’t ever forget so many things:- like the bottles of Nuni water, “yam” season and you teaching the children how to dig yam, the memorable plum tree with the curve that we all sat in and chit-chatted on, your stories of yesteryear about working at FedChem, the click-click-clicking of your camera whenever we came to visit- to truly capture those memory building moments, the certificates on The Wall, stories of you DJ’ing on a Friday night, how much you were involved in building the Piparo church community, your dedication in volunteering at the Community Centre, that you needed to eat promptly at Noon and dinner by 4pm, 5 pm for the latest, how you showed me how you use to organize the freezer with food for easy prep, how you will ask “what you drinking?” and then get from “the stash”, how you and Mom put away a fig tree for us and it ended up growing and bearing right in the yard, how you were forever planting something, your blue room, the hedge of Joseph coat plants which you maintained so well,, the strange metal thing that you always warned our curious children not to touch, you arranging the photography for our wedding with such excellence. And so many more memories.
You will very be missed and the children (Carmel, Joshua and Anna-Marie) are truly sadden by your departure but know you are smiling down on them.
I am sorry that I never got to say goodbye. That you were an awesome Father-in-Law and to tell you that we love you very much. May God look kindly upon all your good deeds and grant you His favor and eternal Rest In Peace in His heavenly kingdom.
Love,
Alicia
19Aug2020
Jeremy Francis
Jeremy Francis
This is my father's employee identification card. He worked at Federation Chemicals in Pt. Lisas, which became Hydro Agri and is now Yara Trinidad. He worked there from 1959 to 1993, when he retired. My father is known for keeping very accurate records and would have noted on the card his start and end date at the company, and also how old he was when he started (22.5 years old). He often told me the story of how he started working there. In those days, he and his friends would take their bicycles and go around looking for work. On this particular day, he rode to 'FedChem's' compound in Savonetta, all the way from Piparo village (a distance of about 28 km) and spoke to a supervisor on the site. Luckily, he had recently obtained his truck licence, so he was given a job to transport material to the shipyard/docks, which was under construction at the time. He loved to drive, so this was a great opportunity. However, he soon ran into trouble. During his lunch break one day, he took the company vehicle 'for a drive' on the extensive grounds of the plant. The van got mired in some mud close to the docks and got stuck. He knew that he could lose his job, because he wasn't supposed to be using the vehicle at that time. He went to his supervisor and told him what happened. He was told to leave and come back the next morning, and that what he did was very serious. When he went back, he was told he would not be fired, but was given a job in another department 'where he would not have anything to drive.' From that day, and for the next 34 years until his retirement, my dad worked in the Stores department. His decision to take responsibility for what had happened became something he would be known for throughout his life.
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