Percy Kennedy Laid To Rest

ANNOUNCEMENT- DEATH - KENNEDY :- on Monday December 15, 1958, at his residence, 66 Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Percival A. (PERCY) beloved husband of Anne, brother of Mesdames. L. Knight, Lizzi Grant, May Bascom, Misses Anna Kennedy and Edith Kennedy and J, A. Kennedy (Demba).
Funeral from the British Guiana Funeral Parlour at 4.30, today.

OBITUARY - MR. PERCY KENNEDY
Another Journalist passed away ay his Bent Street residence late on Monday evening after ailing for some time. He is Mr. Percy Kennedy, one of the oldest members of the British Guiana Press.
Mr. Kennedy, a member of the old brigade worked at all three Dailies in this country. As a young man, he served as a Cub Reporter at the Daily Chronicle, under the management of the late Mr. D. K. Jardine, when Mr. Marchant was Editor.
Some time late he joined the Daily Argosy Staff where he worked for thirty years rising to the post of Senior Sub-Editor.
He resigned from the Daily Argosy in 1950 and took up an appointment as News Editor of the Guiana Graphic.
Uncle Percy as he was familiarly known by the Press too ill in 1955 and was confined to his bed from that time.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anne Kennedy, his Sisters Mesdames L. Knight, L. Grant and M. Bascom, the Misses Anna and Edith Kennedy and a brother Mr. J. A. Kennedy.
The funeral takes place from the British Guiana Funeral Parlour today at 4.30 PM.
Source: Obituary - Mr. Percy Kennedy - The Daily Chronicle, Wednesday, December 17, 1958: page 8.

PERCY KENNEDY LAID TO REST
Mr. Percival A. Kennedy, late Sub-Editor of the Guiana Graphic was laid to rest yesterday afternoon. Members of the Press, relatives and his friends gathered at the British Guiana Funeral Parlour, Queenstown, to pay their final tribute.
Mr. Kennedy died at his residence 66 Bent Street, after ailing for some time. A service was conducted at the Parlour by the Reverends A. S. Russell and W. A. Fraser, after which the cortege proceeded to Le Repentir Cemetery, where the body was laid to rest. The final rites were performed by the Reverends Russell and Fraser. Leaving the Parlour the funeral procession wended its way to St. Stephen’s Scots Church where a service was conducted by the Reverend W. A. Fraser, who also paid tribute to Mr. Kennedy, an ardent member of the Church in his lifetime.
He has left to mourn their loss his widow, Mrs. Anne Kennedy, three sisters and a brother.

THE ATTENDANCE
Among those in attendance were Mr. J. E. Kennedy (brother); sir Donald Jackson, Messrs. A. H. Thorne, R. J. De Corum, H. Bunyan, L. Park, H. S. Johnson, A. C. Isaacs, Percy Watson, W. Gooding, P. F. Loncke, C. A. Bond, J. Starker, E. Deane, L. A. and W. A. Thompson, G. C. Bascom, W. Brathwaite, R. E. Harewood, T. A. Paul, O. McGibbon, C. D. Hopkinson, W. Hercules, W. S. Anthony, E. G. Rawlins, A. Castello, T. D. Brewster, R. Branker, H. A. Grimshaw, L. H. Rohlehr, R. M. Holder, John Mohamed, R. J. Bowling, H. B. Fraser, J. Agard, J. Patternella, P. Legall, H. Hall, A. E. Isaacs, B. T. I. and H. Pollard, J. Owen, H. Peters, S. M. Bowery, C. and H. Charles, T. King, V. W. Edwards, A. F. Jordan, H. F. Cromwell, M. Harte, C. C. Dowding, H. Jardine, W. St. C. Best, C. G. Knight, D. Seetram, E. Morrison, N. M. Hinds, L. Jones, S. Thompson, A. King, J. Croker, O. S. McLeod, W. Sealy, F. R. Mittelholzer and C. Williams.

TRIBUTES
Floral tributes were received from his loving wife, Anne, his sisters Hilda and Mabel, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Dowding, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Agard, the Shacklefords, Doreen and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Mohamed, R. Herbert and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Adams, Joe, Elphin and Aubrey, Anna Edith and May, Carlton and family, the Legall family, Mrs. L. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. de Sebadtiani, M. Harlequin, Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Barrow, Mrs. S. E. Bishop, Edith and
Ann and Mrs. G. Clarke.
Many cards, letters and telegrams were also received.
Source: Percy Kennedy Laid To Rest - The Daily Chronicle, Thursday, December 18, 1958: page 4.