Military-style funeral for scoutYesterday members of the Linden Police Scouts participated in a military-style funeral for their fellow scout Robert Hugh Griffith Jr who died at the Linden Hospital Complex last week.
The sixteen-year-old adventurer succumbed after a brief period of illness shocking his family and the scouts association. Senior members of the Guyana Scouts Association and the Central Mackenzie troop joined the Linden Police Scouts in bidding the loved scout farewell. Following a touching funeral service the scouts marched along Burnham Drive accompanied by the Linmine Corps of Drums to the Christianburg cemetery.Many scouts and leaders described Griffith as one of the group’s favourites who was very humble and committed to any given task. His mother Racquel Deyoung-Griffith was recently trained as a scout leader and said she will continue working with the Linden Police Scouts in remembrance of her son. Robert Hugh Griffith Jr. joined the Linden police scouts in October 2009.
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