Zaggersgut:--- It was indeed an emotional day for students and teachers of the Marie Genevieve De Weever School, while relatives of the late 12 year old Silvia Lynch struggled to hold themselves together at the Seventh Day Adventist Church where the home going ceremony was held on Friday.
Silvia Lynch was a sixth grade student of the Marie Genevieve De Weever School who was killed on Friday last week as she exited a school bus. Her body was carried in a blue casket that was air brushed with her photograph as an angel since viewing was impossible.
Her grandmother was hardly able to compose herself while several other family members tried their best to console her as she mourns the loss of her granddaughter. Her twin brother who was suppose to address the gathering barely managed to say that he really missed his sister before breaking down in tears.
Addressing the gathering on behalf of government was Prime Minister Sarah Wescot Williams who also recited a poem. Wescot Williams urged the family to believe in God and to know that Silvia will continue to bloom on the other side of the wall.
Several of the students who sat in the balcony of the church were visibly shaken as they stared at the casket that bore their classmate and friend's body. Many of them trembled as they listened to the tributes that were given by several of her friends, band-mates and church members. While Silvia was just 12 years old she led a very active and full life. Besides attending school where she is known as one that had the best behavior, she was a member of the STM New Generation Status Band, Repairers of the Broken Wall Ministry and Prayer Furnace. Silvia Lynch a front-liner of the STM band was surely missed on Friday as the band members made sure her drum was present with a tee shirt bearing her photograph hanging around it. Her sister Jessica and other church friends danced to a song they were all practicing for Easter and Mother's Day.
At the close of the ceremony, the STM band and another band that is associated with the Marie Genevieve De Weever School drummed their way to the Cul de Sac cemetery as the hearse carrying her body and other mourners followed. The students and classmates of Silvia Lynch who were all dressed in their uniforms also marched to the cemetery. The band and its members including those that attended the funeral had to brave the rain as they march to the Cul de Sac cemetery, her final resting place.
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