Percy Haynes, a legendary Guyanese-born public servant, and communications media giant, who passed away on Thursday, June 27, was celebrated as a well-loved, brilliant, and spiritual man, during a home going service on Sunday, July 7. He was 94.
Friends, family, and colleagues packed St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church at 331 Hawthorne St. in Brooklyn, the House of Prayer where the man of God and wife Ave Marie were married and worshiped.
Haynes, author of “Beyond Bourda Green” a memoir published in 2011 and named for the cricket ground opposite his boyhood home in Georgetown, was laid to rest 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 end of an outstanding son of Guyana’s soil, whose remarkable contributions, and steadfast commitment to educating himself, and sharing his skills, will live, on in the hearts and minds of all who knew him.
