Condolences continue to pour in for McPherson

Aug 02, 2009 Sports

Several sport enthusiasts and groups were among those that called or emailed the United States-based Haynes Basketball Foundation to express condolences on the passing of retired Guyana Defence Force Colonel Godwin McPherson.
At the time of his death, McPherson was a serving President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), a post he held since 1991. He succumbed at the St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital last Monday after a stroke. He was buried on Friday.
Below is a recollection from former GABF President, John Yates following an expression from those individuals and groups that sent condolences.
“Through this medium I would like to extend my condolences to the McPherson family on his passing last week and to the Basketball fraternity.
I first met Godwin not through basketball but when I was President of Pele Football Club and he was General Secretary of the Guyana Football Federation. I developed a lifelong friendship with him and Ivor O’Brian, who was Georgetown Football League Secretary.
Those two gentlemen encourage me to run for the President of the League and the Federation. It was in 1981, when as GABF President with just over $ 19.00 in the bank, we decided to host the first ever CARICOM Basketball Championships.
The individuals that played major roles in making the Championships the success it was included the Rahaman’s, who were bottlers of Red Spot Drinks and Godwin McPherson who undertook to handle the logistics and transportation.
The Rahaman’s sponsored the event in 1981 while McPherson moved the teams from the Airport to the Teachers’ Training College where they were housed, and to the [Cliff Anderson] Sports Hall for all the games. ‘Give jack his jacket!’”
The entire coaching staff of the Guyana senior male and female team that participated in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships in Puerto Rico in 2007 sent condolences to the family of McPherson and local basketball fraternity.
Those individuals include Carolyn Harvey, Aubrey Chalmers and Larry Davis, who are all based in United States. Hewley Harry of the Guyana New York Veterans Basketball Association and Victory Valley Royals’ Linden Alphonso also sent bereavement messages.
The Reds Perreira Sports Foundation, Bernard Daniels and GUBA Rockers’ Horace Chase along with the New York Ex-Soldiers’ Association all joined in expressing support for the family and the sport in these difficult circumstances.

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