Centenarian Mrs. Violet Henry died yesterday morning in her sleep.
She was bedridden, blind in both eyes and battled with breast cancer for sometime.
Her relative, Allison Duguid, of 391 East Ruimveldt
Housing Scheme, Georgetown, told the Guyana Chronicle that on Wednesday night Mrs. Henry was in a great deal of pain and was not too chatty.
She noted that Mrs. Henry was not her usual self and asked her what she was preparing for her birthday which would have been celebrated on March 14 next. She would have been 101 on that day.
Duguid said, “I told her I would make her favorite meal of fried plantains and fried fish and put on her nice dress and she smiled and held on to my hand.”
She added that the centenarian was looking forward to her birthday but was very ill.
She was married three times, outlived all her husbands, and did not have any children.
She was described as a jovial, feisty, chatty individual who spoke her mind and was in tune with all that went on around her.
Duguid said that Mrs. Henry became bed-ridden when she fell and broke her hip some years ago.
She was discovered dead in her bed at about 7:45 hours yesterday when Duguid went to check on her.
The young woman recalled the last time she was feeding the elderly woman they chatted for sometime before she fell asleep.
Duguid said that most of Mrs. Henry’s relatives are overseas and the funeral will be announced later.
She added that the centenarian will be missed since they got on well together. But the pain she had endured in recent months was so severe, that it was best for her to slip away.