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Former Top Cop, Henry Fraser, dies
Former Commissioner of Police, Henry Alphonso Fraser, died early yesterday morning at St Joseph Mercy Hospital, mere hours after being admitted to the institution. He was 88.
According to his widow, Flora, he died peacefully some time around 01:00 hours yesterday. Mrs. Fraser said that early Sunday morning her husband began complaining about a slight pain in his back. Despite the pain Mrs. Fraser said her husband refused to go to the hospital and insisted on seeing his personal doctor.
“We dressed him early and had him waiting to go to the hospital but he kept saying that he didn’t want to go. We tried getting him back in his bed but he couldn’t even walk.”
She recalled that throughout the day all her husband kept talking about was his real estate business.
“All he kept telling us was he has to pay this person and that person; all he kept talking about was his business.”
“We kept asking him if he was feeling any pain and he said no. He didn’t complain of anything severe,”
Mrs. Fraser said that around 23:00 hours herself along with other relative managed to convince Mr. Fraser that he should go to the hospital.
The man’s relatives called an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital where he was treated and subsequently admitted.
“At the hospital all he keep saying is that he is ok and they placed him on oxygen because he was panting for breath,” his niece-in-law Brenda Ralph said.
Ralph who accompanied Mr. Fraser to the hospital said that while she was preparing to take breakfast for him yesterday morning she was greeted with the news of his death.
“Around six this morning a nurse called and said sorry but Mr. Fraser has passed on.”
The family said that they have been receiving tremendous support from serving members of the police force as well as past members.
Born to Guyanese parents in Suriname on December 2, 1922, Henry Alphonso Fraser grew up on Plantation Albion with his mother, father, two brothers and two sisters.
The only qualification that he was able to obtain was his Primary School Leaving Certificate, but he described himself as “a very ambitious fellow who was determined to succeed”.
Mr. Fraser was enlisted with the force in 1941 at Albion and made his way down to Georgetown, to the Constabulary School – which is now the Felix Austin Police College. There he was paraded before the Officer in Charge and his assistants.
Only recently Mr. Fraser was featured in this publication as a ‘Special Person’.
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