Jennifer Carrington-Sabeeney departed this life on January 02, 2002. She was given a very simple Funeral Service at the Clark & Battoo Funeral Home by her daughter, Raquel and only remaining sibling, Diane, which was conducted by Father Gabriel Julien.
There was no long and flowery eulogy for this woman who always seemed to have a smile on her pleasingly plump face, and whom I am sure would not have wanted any publicity. But in my heart, I know that there are some things that need to be told.
Jennifer was the daughter of the very well known, respected and much loved Doctor Harry Carrington, whose office stood for so many years in the Vendryes Building at upper Frederick Street, and who during his time as a medical practitioner delivered more babies and cured more youngsters than we can any of us ever count, and as the Port doctor climbed many a Jacob ladder out in the stream to attend to sick seamen.
A man who himself fathered five children (four daughters and one son), and has now witnessed the passing of four of these children. Jennifer, daughter Marla from natural causes and his two youngest children, Candace and Henry, who both died in tragic circumstances within six months of each other in 1994.
These simple words were Jennifer's epitaph: "Patience and timing... everything comes when it must. A life cannot be rushed. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. Life is endless, so we never die. We pass through different phases, there is no end. Time is not as we see it, but rather as lessons we learn."