BOSA Announces The Home Going Of Victor Smith – Vincent Samuels
It is indeed with mixed feeling of joy and sorrow, that Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA), announces the home going of Victor Smith (Mass Victor, Mass Vic, Prophet) age 89 years, Beersheba Elementary School Alumnus, Farmer, Butcher, Accredited Local Preacher and Community Leader at his home at Beersheba/Carr District, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, in the afternoon of Friday, March 26, 2021.
Feeling of joy, because as William Shakespeare, British Poet wrote; after having acted brilliantly on the stage of and received several accolades, the curtain came down after his final act and Mass Victor made his peaceful transition and answered the call of the Lord Jesus Christ, his Lord, Saviour and Redeemer to come home and rest.
Feeling of sorrow, because Mass Victor has left behind his second wife Blossom, children Harris, Elaine, Denise and Shantel, his siblings Gloria Smith-Meredith, Bsc; J.P., Executive Director, Children of Faith Maxine (Joy), Hazel, Charm and Byron, other family members, relatives, close friends and well-wishers, members of New Market Methodist Church family and all Beersheba Elementary/Primary School Alumni in Jamaica and the Diaspora to mourn and grieve his loss.
Mass Victor first wife Adina Brown -Smith (Miss Dine), Dressmaker, his first son of the marriage Vivian and his 32 brothers and 8 sisters nurtured and raised by his parents David and Eva Smith and his step-mother Doris Graham-Smith, from Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, all predeceased him.
Mass Victor will be remembered along with all his brothers for the way in which they delighted the Wakeland Plantocracy Family and other members of the impoverished peasant farming community of Flint Valley and Long Ground with their melodious acapella singing that could be heard coming from “Camp Hill”, Flint Valley where they assembled and sang nightly. Singing never departed from Mass Victor throughout the years as he sang solos and sang in choirs at his local church and concerts, rallies and funerals that were held at other local churches.
Mass Victor in his zeal and zero tolerance for mediocrity in education, served as First Vice President, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) from 2011 up the date on which he peacefully made his transition. Mass Victor who had a passionate desire to do all he could in the office in which he displayed devotion and loyalty; ensured that the Association continued to do all it could as the safety net and monitor for students who attended Beersheba Primary School as well as those who graduated from the school to attend high schools and tertiary institutions during the tenure of his office.
Mass Victor’s love for students from the impoverished peasant farming Beersheba Primary School Community, was not only displayed in discussions and decision-making that he led at bi-monthly general and special general meetings of Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA), but he was always present at Annual Back To School Dinners and Church Services at which high school students wearing formal attire accompanied by their parents and guardians and wearing school uniforms respectively. Under Mass Victor’s leadership, all students who wore their school uniforms while attending church services that were rotated in local churches in Beersheba School Community, received note books, rules, highlighters, pens and pencils from the Association at the end of the service.
Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has lost a stalwart unselfish leader who will be difficult to replace. Who will take up the baton and run with it to continue the leg of the relay race that that Mass Victor ran brilliantly?
Invaluable service that Mass Victor has rendered to Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA), New Market Methodist Church and Beersheba Primary School Community is his legacy that others should be motivated and inspired to emulate.
To Mass Victor’s nuclear family members, relatives, friends, well-wishers and church family at New Market Methodist Church, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) wish to express its sincere condolence and assure you in doing so, that having satisfactorily completed the work that the Lord entrusted to him; He has taken Mass Victor home to give him rest that he deserves. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Psalm 116:15)
Because of COVID-19 restrictions under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) with respect to burials, no information is available at this time regarding the date when Mass Victor’s remains will be laid to rest.
New Information Added June 13, 2021: Interment will take place in the family Plot at Beersheba, New Market , Saint Elizabeth on June 24, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.
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