Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
As murdered mother of two Asha George was laid to rest yesterday, her cousin made an impassioned appeal to relatives to love, support and care for her children.
“She did not know much good,” Faith George told mourners at the funeral service at the Celestial Funeral Chapel in Claxton Bay.
George, 30, was younger than her daughters, 12 and 14 when she lost her parents in tragic circumstances. Her younger daughter, who was shot in the forehead and leg, was discharged from the hospital yesterday to attend the funeral.
A relative said the bullet is still lodged in the girl’s forehead. She was injured when gunmen stormed into her Claxton Bay home on May 11 and fatally shot her mother and her mother’s boyfriend Devon Drayton. The girl’s older sister escaped unhurt.
At the funeral service yesterday, relatives comforted the children as they wept for their mother.
Faith said George did not have an easy life.
“That child gone to rest and she never get a fair chance in life. For me, it is heartbreaking because I know how they grow up and see the struggles, and I feel the pain.”
She added: “Pray for forgiveness and show her something good because she don’t really know much good.”
Faith, who recalled that she had spoken to George just hours before she was killed, said: “My heart is broken.”
However, she was confident the family would get justice through God.
“Hear what I telling allyuh, don’t let your heart be troubled. Justice will be served. He will deal with everything.”
Faith said George’s children would have to live without a mother and “practically without a father.”
She pleaded: “I want family, aunties, uncles, cousins, people say they care, I beg allyuh support these children. These children need love, they need attention, they need care.”
Despite her challenges, relatives and friends said George was always smiling and making others happy.
One mourner, who gave her name only as Ann, said they developed a friendship after George’s children started attending her Sunday School classes. She said George loved her children and provided for them the best she could.
“She had very good dreams for her children. She wanted them to finish school, she wanted to move out of the community, she wanted a different job where she would not have to be working at the night so she could be at home. She had very honest aspirations and dreams like any mother would.”
Recalling how George often spoke about her past but wanted to turn a new leaf, she added: “She said to me Ms Ann, I really want to change my life and she end up praying and made a decision to follow God.”
As she pledged her support to George’s children, Ann said she would ensure they made the best of their lives.
“Learn from her mistakes, learn from the good things that she did as well, because she did good. She did good with what was given to her. She did her best,” she
Following the service which was officiated by Spiritual Baptist Bishop Mark Toby, the funeral cortege stopped at a relative’s home in Claxton Bay before proceeding to the Basta Hall cemetery for burial.
