Security guard laid to Rest

One week after he succumbed to shotgun wounds sustained during an armed robbery on May 25, Glen Fitzgerald Forde was buried yesterday  at the Turure Cemetery, following a funeral service at the Worldwide Church of God in Arima. Forde was shot  just two days after he celebrated his 32nd birthday. He died June 2. An emotional Finbar Forde, father of the deceased had to be consoled before reading the eulogy which he eventually discarded. He composed himself and instead, used the opportunity to reminisce aloud about his young son. Forde spoke of Glen at the age of a year and a half, which he said was the beginning of a number of mishaps during the course of his son’s life, to the circumstances that led to his eventual death. Some of those mishaps included sandwiching himself between a slab of concrete and the ground, falling in fire, and jumping from a flight of stairs to land on broken glass. However, his father said that Glen never really caused both his wife or himself any undue pain or worry, except the fact that the deceased chose to do longer hours and a lot of night work for the past five years.

His son, he said, hinted of his annoyance at the poor remuneration of security officers but said nothing further about it. Instead he said: “Glen never uttered one thing negative about anything or anybody. He made mistakes, but he finally lived a life for Christ”. The elder Forde said while his son was nursing his wounds in the hospital, for the first time he was told by his son that he loved him and that his last words were “Thank You Jesus”. He was  happy that his son had recently turned to the church and expressed surety that God would take care of him. Also paying tribute to the deceased were his sister Jasmine who together with Crystal-Anne Hernandez sang Psalm 121, while Wendy Hernandez did ‘In the Name Of The Lord’. Earlier a small detachment of Pentagon Secu-rity officers led the pall bearers bearing the silver-grey flower patterned coffin into the church followed by Forde’s parents Lucy and Finbar, his wife Sarah, daughter Aaliyah and other members of the family.