VERNLEY IVOR WARD
-- A Life well lived ...

OBITUARY On February 15, 1939, Vernley Ivor Ward was born to Edward H. Ward and Edith Garraway in the Pomeroon River district of Guyana, South America. Sometime after his birth, Vernley moved, with his mother, to Georgetown, Guyana. There, he completed his primary education at the Broad Street Government School, from which institution he earned a scholarship to Queen's College, the premier secondary school in the country. Vernley did exceptionally well at Q.C., passing in thirteen (13) G.C.E. O-Level subjects and earning four (4) A-Levels.

This brilliant performance earned Vernley Ivor a Bookers' Scholarship, which he used to qualify as a Sugar Technologist at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. After returning home, he worked on Bookers' Sugar Estates at Albion, Blairmont, Enmore and Skeldon.

Later, Vernley left the Bookers group and came up to the United States of America to continue his studies. Upon his return to Guyana, he worked at the Agricultural station on the East Coast of Demerara. After a while, he took his family to Trinidad where he worked as a sugar chemist at the Brechin Castle Sugar Estate in Couva. Upon his return to Guyana in 1975, he took up a position as a Process Engineer at the Alumina Plant of the Guyana Mining Enterprise.

In 1979, Vernley left the dear land of Guyana to join his wife Charmaine, in the United States. While residing in the U.S., he worked primarily as a Quality Control Officer and, most recently, as a Tax Consultant.

On August 12, 2000 Vernley was admitted to the Caledonia Hospital in Brooklyn, with severe head and neck pain. No one knew that he would never leave under his own steam. On Sunday, September 10, 2000 he went to his reward. He leaves to mourn his passing his wife Charmaine; his childred: Sharon, Kim, Vin and Simone; his mother: Edith Mentore; his sisters: Charlene and Vana; his brother: Juan; his grandchildren: Sharmayne, Stacey, Samantha, Melissa and Melanie; his niece: Tiffany; his nephews: Rollex and Tarique; and numerous other relative and friends who will sorely miss him.