The body of the late legal luminary, Kevin Justin Williams, has been laid to rest at his family estate in Colihaut. Hundreds of people attended his funeral service at the St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Goodwill. The law specialist died on January 24, 2020 in England.
The late Williams’ friends described him as a brilliant and foremost lawyer who breathed and lived the law to the end of his life. He colleagues eulogized him, saying he was often anxious to share his legal knowledge with younger lawyers with a view to get them grounded in the law practice.
“Yet for all that, he never lost his humanity, his calmness and gentleness which some, who did not know him, could mistake for timidity,” friends and family wrote in his eulogy.
Williams reportedly sought medical attention in Martinique when he first took ill. He was referred to London where he was advised that he had less than one year to live unless he got a new heart. A defibrillator was inserted into his heart to help him live until a new heart was found for him. He lived for another 20 years after he obtained a new heart until he fell sick again and passed on.
“He was a perfectionist, whether as a plumber, builder, mechanic, furniture maker, lawyer, father, devoted husband and loving son,” his eulogy stated. “Throughout it all, he maintained a calm and calming demeanour, a kindly and generous disposition and a stoic endurance of pain and adversity with a level of dignity and humility which made him a delight to live with.”
Williams was survived by an aged mother, a widow, and children Yasmin and Yannick.
His funeral service was attended by Father Charles Martin, Monsignor William John-Lewis, High Court Judges Justice Birnie Stephenson and Justice Wynante Adrien-Roberts among several associates in the legal profession.
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