The celebration of life ceremony for Dr Carlton ‘Pee Wee’ Fraser will be held this Saturday, December 18, in Florida, not Jamaica, as many of his Twelve Tribes of Israel brethren were hoping.
The venue for the service will be the Forest Lawn Memorial Garden in Fort Lauderdale. According to the programme, the order of service includes a viewing and service of celebration from 12 noon to 3 p.m. and the burial from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. A repast follows.
The beloved Rastafarian doctor, who was a former Reggae Boyz team physician, passed away at the Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale on November 21 from COVID-19 related complications. He was 74.
Several tributes have been paid by those in politics, entertainment and sport to a humanitarian whose generosity was unsurpassed. On the first Wednesday in December, a groundation held at Chinna Smith’s Inna De Yard venue was dedicated to Fraser. Last week Wednesday, a group of Twelve Tribes members hosted a tribute at Kaya Herb House in St Andrew.
A spiritual and festive repast, the members were symbolically dressed in white. The evening’s programme included an interlude of drums with the Binghistra Movement and performances from Judy Mowatt, Fred Locks, Tarrus Riley, Sangie Davis, Dawn Martin and Oshane Love. Fraser’s lifelong friend and confidant, Gulchie Asher, gave the opening remarks.
The Fraser family last month established a GoFundMe account to raise US$15,000. Up to press time, US$14,608 had been collected. In the intro, the family states, “Maya Angelou said – A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again – in this case, Dr Carlton Fraser, passed away in Florida on Sunday, November 21, 2021. It is not the time or date that will be remembered but how he lived that will be. His selfless care for others and uplifting nature changed the lives of the many people he touched caring for his patients, friends and family. It mattered not whether they were poor or wealthy but if he could make lives better in any way. His last days were spent sharing love with his children and many grandchildren. We ask for your contribution of support, as all proceeds will go to the Fraser family in [an] attempt to carry on his great legacy and lay a father, a healer, an educator and overall wonderful human being to rest.”
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