See­ta­hal's sis­ter, Su­san Fran­cois, who de­liv­ered the eu­lo­gy, read a trib­ute to See­ta­hal sent by her col­league of many years, for­mer DPP Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son, who is now a judge at the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court in the Hague.Fran­cois said Hen­der­son was ex­treme­ly close to See­ta­hal and had sent the trib­ute, en­ti­tled "A Na­tion­al Trea­sure".Hen­der­son, in the trib­ute read by Fran­cois, stat­ed that See­ta­hal had a deep love of T&T and a huge de­sire to give back to T&T and make it a bet­ter place."She loved pub­lic ser­vice," Hen­der­son stat­ed.He said See­ta­hal had done a lot of work for the DPP's of­fice at pep­per­corn rates and had men­tored lawyers, young and old­er, and shared her ex­pe­ri­ence freely."We mar­velled at her tremen­dous work eth­ic... she was for­mi­da­ble in court," he said.

Hen­der­son said when See­ta­hal took "silk", as­sumed the sta­tus of se­nior coun­sel, none ques­tioned the de­ci­sion and many thought it should have been giv­en soon­er."Dana's silk was true silk," Hen­der­son not­ed.His trib­ute not­ed See­ta­hal was al­so a good re­source to the Cari­com crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.Hen­der­son said See­ta­hal had loved writ­ing the news­pa­per columns she did and gave care­ful thought to each and their se­lec­tion, clar­i­fy­ing com­plex is­sues and those which were ob­fus­cat­ed by oth­ers.He said her nick­name was "Seets" and though some­time rough, she didn't have a bad bone in her body."She was hon­est, loy­al, fair and fear­lesss. Her mur­der by gut­less cow­ards has left a deep void," Hen­der­son said, adding See­ta­hal's par­ents had giv­en T&T a na­tion­al trea­sure.

Fran­cois, af­ter con­clud­ing Hen­der­son's trib­ute, said up to last Sun­day morn­ing she had five sis­ters, "Now I have four."Say­ing See­ta­hal was the fam­i­ly's guid­ing light, Fran­cois added: "I can speak words of the loss and dev­as­ta­tion we feel but they would be woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate."We will shed tears that she has gone, but we will smile be­cause she has lived. We will open our eyes and see all she has left and we will cher­ish her mem­o­ry and let it live on."Fran­cois, though look­ing strained, main­tained her com­po­sure through the de­liv­ery.But when Fran­cois con­clud­ed her con­tri­bu­tion in a slight­ly shaky voice, "Go with God, my sis­ter ...," her be­spec­ta­cled broth­er in the pew be­hind hers, broke down and held his head in his hands.See­ta­hal's law school mate, Mer­lin Boyce, elicit­ed smiles when she re­lat­ed how See­ta­hal en­joyed fa­cials, de­sign­er clothes and hair styling.

Boyce spoke about how both might have end­ed up at the Red House on Ju­ly 27, 1990 to see for­mer school­mate Joseph Toney, but See­ta­hal had said the Par­lia­ment was "too bor­ing..."

Rev Daniel Teelucks­ingh, de­liv­er­ing a stir­ring ser­mon, elicit­ed nods in­clud­ing from the Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie when he said: "T&T is no easy place to gov­ern."Al­so on the pro­gramme were prayers by RC priest Fr Clyde Har­vey and Pun­dit Rhandir Ma­haraj.At­ten­dees com­prised a who's who of the le­gal, po­lit­i­cal and law en­force­ment hi­er­ar­chy.Among the PP and PNM lead­ers were Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith, for­mer pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards, For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter (Tu­na­puna MP) Win­ston Dook­er­an, Plan­ning Min­is­ter Bhoe Tewarie, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith, act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams, PCA head Gillian Lucky, UWI prin­ci­pal Clement Sankat, Jus­tice Vashist Kokaram, at­tor­ney Mar­tin Daly, PNM's Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Amery Browne, Nafeesa Mo­hammed and oth­ers.