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Essequibo’s oldest centenarian dies
May Garraway, also called” “Auntie May” died peacefully Saturday afternoon around 14:00 hours, after complaining to her daughter and caregiver, Joyce Garraway of experiencing an uncomfortable feeling.
May Garraway
Joyce explained that her mother died suddenly, less than a minute after she had her last conversation with her.
The younger Garraway said that after offering her mother something to eat, “Auntie May” told her that if she refused the food don’t be alarmed because she said she would die.”
Joyce said that her mother took her last breath soon after. She said that she immediately ran to her mother’s side and attempted to revive her.
Joyce took care of her mother who she said was a pleasant old woman. Auntie May would be buried sometime next week. She grew in Hackney, in the Lower Pomeroon River and attended a Roman Catholic school as well as a Brethren Church, in Hackney Canal.
Auntie May outlived all her siblings and parents, David Alexander, a/k” David Miller and Georgina Garraway. Auntie May never married but took care of her ten children by working on her parents’ farm and also sewed clothes to sustain her family. Over the years, many older folks remembered her for her deliveries of some two hundred babies.
The oldest Essequibo centenarian was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Pomeroon River. Auntie May would be greatly missed by her 70 grandchildren and 108 great grands. May Garraway was born on May 3, 1910. (Yannason Duncan)
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