Passing of Filbert Peters
I wish all a blessed holiday season.
I have to share with all the sad news that my eldest brother, Filbert Peters, an ex CHS student who opted for the Apprentice Training Center at Port Mourant, from where he graduated in 1964, passed away on Christmas morning at age 65. Arrangements are still in the works and I’ll share the info as soon as they are finalized.
I’ll be in touch….
I now have the arrangements:
From Elaine Peters:
We are saddened to let you know that Dad passed away on December 25, 2008. The following arrangements were made for his viewing and memorial service.
O’Boyle Funeral Home
309 Broad Street
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Contacts:
Elaine: 917-838-3337
Jackie: 917-626-0771
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Viewing from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Service from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Please forward or pass on this information to any of his friends and loved ones.
You may also contact me at (845) 231-4280, (845) 729-5213.
Abel
December 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Elaine,
You and I have exchanged email in the past so you are no stranger to me. It is with deep sadness that we learn of the passing of your father. The CHS-JCCSS community around the world reaches out to you, your siblings and families and to your late Dad’s brothers and sisters and their families in a very special way in this your time of grief. On a personal level, I know what it feels like to lose a loved one at this festive time of year. Please accept our deepest sympathy.
Rishi Singh
December 26th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Abel,
Over the years, you have become iconic, transformative and a man for all seasons. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. I know you will be a tower of strength to all around you. Please accept our deepest sympathy.
Now I know why in the run-up to Christmas I wasn’t hearing from you.
Rishi
December 26th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
My memory was jogged today when I heard of the demise of Filbert Peters from Mabel (Nathoo), a relative of the Peters and also my friend and a former CHS classmate. She mentioned to me that the deceased was also one of our classmates in the years he attended CHS.
It is regretfully sad that the passage of time can leave us with such faded memories.
Nevertheless, in this hour of grief, I would like the family to know that my thoughts and prayers are with them.
And, on behalf of all the former CHS classmates of Filbert Peters,
I would like to extend our deep and heartfelt sympathies and condolences to his grieving mother, his bereaved spouse and children, to Abel and the rest of the family. May God be with you.
“in the seeds of this life, we find hope for a better life to come. May it comfort you to know that your loved one in now at peace.”
BeautyRawana) Ramotar
December 27th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Dear Elaine, I am so sorry to learn of your dad’s passing. He was so young. I extend condolences to you and the entire Peters family circle. May God grant you abundant grace and sustain all your needs during this time of loss. Love, Sher.
December 27th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
We are saddened by the news of the passing of Filbert, my cousin, dear friend, fellow apprentice, mentor and peer at Bookers Sugar Estates and at Reynolds(Kwakwani).
I would like to express our deepest sympathy to my aunt and the family. You were of great aspirations to all who have known you,especially those from C.H.S., P.M.T.C., and Kwakwani where you single-handedly formed the cricket team in the 60’s. Today it’s one of the power house in the country.
You will always be remembered. I know that you are being looked after by the Higher Power.
I am thankful to have known you.
Mavis and Leonard Joseph Punambolam and family.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:25 am
My nephew’s divine essence has now rejoined its Source. We are grateful that through Divine Bounty, we were prvileged to have him among us for 65 years and that on the morning of Christ’s nativity, the angels escorted him home.
To all his family and especially to Abel the deepest condolences of aunty Celina and myself.
Uncle Julius
December 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am
The Guyanese community in New Jersey mourns the passing of Filbert Peters .
Filbert died on December 25th,2008. He was a 1964 graduate of thePort Mourant Apprentice Training Center and the brother of Abel an alumnus of Corentyne High School.
Viewing on Sunday December 28th at 1.30pm to 3.30pm and service from 3.30pm to 4.30pm at the O’Boyle Funeral Home, 309 Broad Street, New Jersey 07003…..please call 973-748-1246 for directions
December 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
This weekend is overwhelmingly sad since the Peters clan was ever-present and respectable in our community.
Filbert wasa guy who was a “smiler” and so friendly!He also liked a good argument .
From what I know of him,he neverdid anything wrong to anyone.He was a strinkingly amenable person.
My sincere condolences to all in the family, and God knows best!
His Soul will certainly rest in Peace!
December 28th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Filbert’s father, my handsome first cousin, Reynold Peters, died when he was 39 years young. His nine children and their heroic mother, Lily, became very closely attached. Filbert was the eldest. He and his younger brother, Ellick, attended CHS but left after their father died.
I know that no words of mine can assuage their deep grief at this time. Maybe Wordsworth’s immortal poem “We are Seven” may go some way towards comfort. I take this opportunity to quote the poem at full length; the final two stanzas were quoted for the Singh family in memory of their beloved brother, Anand. Every time I read this poem I get annoyed with the apparent “coldness” of the narrator although I know that it is deliberate on the part of the poet.
I can only imagine the profundity of my sister-in-law’s grief. For you, Lily, my tears are streaming as I write:
I met a little cottage girl
She was eight years old she said
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head
She had a rustic woodland air
And she was wildly clad
Her eyes were fair and very fair
Her beauty made me glad
“Sisters and brothers, little maid
How many may you be?”
“How many? Seven in all, “she said
And wondering looked at me.
“And where are they I pray you tell.”
She answered, ” Seven are we,
And two of us at Conway dwell
And two are gone to sea.
Two of us in the churchyard lie
My sister and my brother
And in the churchyard cottage, I
Dwell near them with my mother.”
“You say two at Conway dwell
And two are gone to sea,
And you are seven! I pray you tell
Sweet maid, how that may be.”
Then did the little Maid reply,
“Seven boys and girls are we,
Two of us in the churchyard lie
Beneath the churchyard tree.
The first that died was sister Jane
In bed she moaning lay
Till God released her of her pain
And then she went away.
So in the churchyard she was laid
And when the grass was dry
Together round her grave we played
My brother John and I
And when the ground was white with snow,
And I could run and slide,
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side.”
“You run above, my little Maid,
Your limbs they are alive!
If two are in the churchyard laid
Then you are only five.”
“Their graves are green, they may be seen,”
The little maid replied,
“Twelve steps or more from my mother’s door
And they are side by side.
My stockings there I often knit
My kerchief there I hem
And there upon the ground I sit
And sing a song to them.
And often after sunset, Sir,
When it is light and fair
I take my little porringer
And eat my supper there.”
“How many are you, then?” said I
“If they two are in heaven?”
Quick was the little girl’s reply
“O Master, we are seven.”
“But they are dead, those two are dead,
Their spirits are in heaven!”
‘Twas throwing words away, for still
The little Maid would have her will
And said, “Nay, we are seven!”
December 30th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Erratum et addendum:
When Reynold Peters died, he left his widow (33 years old) and ten children aged 5 months to 15 years. Filbert was the eldest and the first to die. In our entire family Lily is revered as a woman of steel.
Filbert was an outstanding cricketer famous for his “wicked” leg-break. He played his last match in New Jersey on September 2008 four months before his 65th birthday!
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I am one of Filbert’s daughters and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who extended their sympathies to myself and my family during our time of grief. We really do appreciate it and I am sure that Dad would have been pleased with everything. God bless!!