Fond farewell to ‘fearless’ Straughn

One can give a general profile of his life but this will not adequately record the number of lives touched by Glenroy Straughn.
So said Dr Viola Davis as she eulogized the late teacher, welfare officer, board chairman and social and political activist who fought for “justice and decency”, at Straughn’s funeral service at the Cathedral of St Michael’s and All Angels yesterday.
Davis traced Straughn’s life from his birth at Westbury Road, through school days at Wesley Hall Boys’ School and Harrison College to the years spent “on a mission to transform his world” and improve the lot of the “oppressed and down-trodden”. 
She said members of the Pan African Movement of Barbados appreciated the contributions he made to the organization as the movement’s treasurer and his dedication to the Pan African cause. She said profiles of his life hardly spoke to the “effort, expenditure and inconvenience” involved in Straughn’s travel to distant lands to put forward views on issues such as reparations. (GC)