Many have been the accolades heaped on the late Marion Yvonne Solomon, since her passing on June 18, 2002. But the best of them came from her 'loving' grandson, Nikolai: "I love my granny because she is caring and loving. She dresses me in the morning when I have to play Carnival. I love when she cooks the best macaroni pie in the whole entire world. I will miss you but you will be my guardian angel in heaven."
And said Dianne Gittens, the librarian in the Supreme Court's Law Library, where Marion worked from 1964-1998: "The library has been enriched, not only by Marion's commitment to service but through the meticulousness with which she performed her duties. She is one of three persons who assisted in the formation of the court libraries. The Information File Collection is the legacy with which she has left us. Marion started a collection of newspaper articles, speeches and reports connected with the legal profession, so that researchers can use that file."
"Everyone in the legal community has said what a beautiful person she was. Marion never got flustered and what I eventually found out was that her patience continued also at home. She always floated through no matter the pressure."
"Marion is the third of a certain calibre of civil servant to have died recently, the other two were Joann Ng Fan of the Office of the Prime Minister and Ulric Clarke of the Ministry of Finance. It seems that God is forming a service up in the sky as we just don't get that kind of commitment to service here again."
Born on August 21, 1938, in San Fernando, this very gentle woman was the eighth child of the late Austin and Valentine Wilson. She was a loving wife to Selwyn Solomon, a devoted mother to sons, Warren and Jeffrey, a doting Granny to Nikolai, and understanding mother-in- law to Cheryl, The caring sister of Ena Hercules, Norma Bertrand, Joyce Pierre, Lois Barrow, Hazel Redman, Jackie De Verteuil and the late Cecil and Leslie Wilson. And a true sister/friend to Nancy Furlonge Walker, whose husband Ian, in his eulogy said "You could call yourself very lucky if Marion considered you as a friend; being Marion's friend meant that nobody could bad talk you with her. If needs be she would defend you to the end and after if you were wrong you were sure to know."
Above all, said Furlonge Walker, "Marion was Love. She was the living embodiment of the characteristics of love that St Paul spoke about in his letter to the Corinthians."