Thanksgiving Service for Errol Anthony “Peachie” Piper, age 61 years of Happy Hall, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, Beersheba Primary School Alumnus, guitarist, farmer, and mason who passed away suddenly on his farm on September 28, 2013 was held at New Market Seventh Day Adventist Church, New Market, Saint Elizabeth on Sunday, October 27, 2013.
In tributes that were given by persons from a wide cross section of the community, references were made to “Peachie” as being the caring family man who nurtured several of his nephews and nieces. Mrs. B. E. Martin, Principal New Market Preparatory School who represented New Testament Church of God at New Savannah, New market, Saint Elizabeth referred to “Peachie” as a kindhearted community man who was always willing to volunteer his service to the church as a guitarist without anyone asking him to do so.
Pastor Durrant Brown from Nightengale Grove Baptist Church in giving his tribute in song in which he accompanied himself on the guitar, sang the selection to the delight of the mourners Some Call It Beauty But I Call It Home.
Although “Peachie’ lost sight in his left eye as a result of a tragic accident that he sustained at age 13, “Peachie’s” indomitable spirit and will power propelled him to learn masonry as a skill
“Peachie” whose parents Septimus and Gertel Piper predeceased him several years ago, leaves behind siblings Buzzette, Tatlin, Polly, and several nephews and nieces to mourn his loss. Interment was done in the family plot at Happy Hall, New Market, Saint Elizabeth.
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