Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
Drowned man’s widow considers future without her ‘life’
Janet Boodhoo
Janet Boodhoo, who has now become a widow, is forced to make some mental adjustments. Her husband died by drowning on Saturday. On Monday, she said that her husband was her life; everywhere he went she had followed.
The grief stricken woman last saw her husband on Saturday, moments after he left his Friendship Canal home, for a shop about a mile away.
Herman Ignatius Evans (aka Boodhoo)’s body surfaced after noon on Monday at Covent Garden, Upper Pomeroon, less than a mile from where he lived. Detectives were summoned to the scene soon after.
The deceased was both a farmer and labourer. According to another Friendship, Canal resident, the man was said to be under the influence of alcohol. His distraught wife said that both her son Bernard, and her husband’s best friend had discovered his boat, some greens he had purchased Saturday night and his torchlight in his ballahoo at Jonestown, Marlborough.
She said after she did not notice her husband return at a certain time Saturday night she became worried and decided to search for him the following morning.
“Two whole nights I did not get any sleep, because I was worried that something bad might have happened to him.”
A man who said he was in the company of Boodhoo, drinking last Saturday, recalled seeing the man sometime around 20:00 hours. He said that Boodhoo was determined to go home and did not pay any heed, after he was reminded by his son-in-law about leaving his friend, who had accompanied him to the drinking.
“We call him back to collect his friend and he insisted that he wanted to go home and continued.”
According to the widow who celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary recently, (she had been living with him for 37 years) she is now making preparations to bury her husband today.
Janet is now left to mourn with their eight children, aged 14 to 35.
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