Roger Carron s son Robert (right) carries the urn containing the ashes, accompanied by John Conlin, who represented the Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association at the service.

Published On:Monday, November 02, 2009

ROGER CARRON, director and former managing editor of The Tribune, was laid to rest in the Eastern Cemetery, on Saturday, following a moving ceremony at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Street.

The service was conducted by Archbishop Patrick Pinder with Monsignor Preston Moss giving the homily. Before the service Mr Peter Young, former British High Commissioner, paid a tribute.

With many persons in attendance, including Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette, leader of the Opposition Perry Christie, a number of cabinet ministers and members of the House and Senate, Chief Justice Michael Barnett, and other government officials, including members of the foreign service, Mr Carron was entombed in the Dupuch family's mausoleum.

His son, who carried his urn, was escorted by Mr. John Conlin, who served with the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles -- the regiment to which Mr Carron belonged when he served in Malaya during the Malayan emergency as a 2nd Lieutenant. Mr Conlin represented the Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association at the service.

Mr Felipé Iturralde concluded the church service with the singing of Ave Maria.

Born in Eastbourne, Sussex on June 13, 1932, Roger Peter Carron was the only child of the late Penry and Muriel Carron. Mr Carron met Eileen Dupuch, the publisher of The Tribune, while they were law students in London in 1961. They were married in Nassau on January 13, 1963, and have one son, Robert.

Mr Carron suffered a heart attack on Saturday, October 10, and died in the Cleveland Clinic, Fort Lauderdale, on Sunday, October 18.

He is survived by his wife, Eileen, and son, Robert, sisters-in-law, Mrs Bette

Hull, Mrs Joan Munnings and her husband, Ralph, and Mrs Susan Dupuch; brothers-in-law, Etienne, Jr, Bernard and Pierre Dupuch, and aunt, Mrs Dorothea Dupuch, several nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews and cousins in England.