Dear Editor,
I write to offer my sincere condolences to the family of Winifred Hunter nee Wishart who passed away on September 26 this year in Jamaica, WI.
Although significantly younger than either Mrs Hunter or her father, Dr W. Wishart, I distinctly remember them both as I grew up at 238 Murray Street ( I understand that this street is now renamed) in Georgetown, Guyana and this was just two fences away from the Wishart’s residence.
Our residence adjoined the Male Teacher’s Training College and that was immediately next to the Wisharts’ residence.
My friends and I enjoyed the cherries from the tree which, although it was on the Wisharts’ property, overhung the Teacher’s Training College from where my friends and I gained access to the succulent fruit. We, of course, scampered whenever the then Miss Wishart ap-proached since we knew that what we were doing was nothing short of stealing.
However, we were once prevented from leaving the scene of the crime by several male students of the College who held us until Miss Wishart arrived and advised us, and them, that her father, Dr Wishart had no problem with us helping ourselves to some of the fruits, but asked that we left some for him and his family. From that time on our only problem was evading the personnel from the College.
Eventually, and several years later, my cousin Peola Carrington was employed by Mrs Hunter as a junior teacher in the kindergarten area of her school.
I remember a gentle, caring person in Mrs Hunter and thank her for all the good that she did for the people of Guyana. May she rest in peace.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Lewis
Canada
