Vic Brewster’s wife, Edwardine, gives him a final touch before the casket is closed.
Former Broadcasters, Michael Rudder and Ricardo Blackman, pay their respects.
Part of the congregation at the St. Matthias Anglican Church for the funeral of the late Vic ‘Buddy Boy’ Brewster.
‘Buddy Boy’ signs off for the final time
A loving husband, supportive father, consummate broadcaster and dedicated church-goer.
These descriptions were just part of the picture painted of the late Vic “Buddy Boy” Brewster yesterday during a thanksgiving service at the St. Matthias Anglican Church where scores of persons gathered to say farewell to the former media giant.
Delivering the address, Reverend Hugh Sandiford said that through the broadcast medium and as a deejay on the hotel circuit, the former Deputy Programme Manager at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was able to “transform the lives of many through his voice, through his wit and through his personality, bringing a smile to many faces as a respite from the stresses of life”.
“But the skills he possessed, he did not only limit to the CBC or to the hotel circuit. He also made it available and utilised it within the church and within the diocese. I can recall after completing Codrington College, we were required to sit at his feet and learn the craft of public speaking as we prepared for parish ministry,” he said.
He also told those gathered of the dedication the well-known radio personality paid to the church even after retirement, including hosting a weekly broadcasting class for youth at St. Matthias church.
“He was truly a colossal. He knew and trusted God… The same God who afforded Vic the opportunity to use the broadcast medium to share the good news of his love, thus transforming the lives of many,” Sandiford continued.
The Reverend therefore urged the congregation not to grieve, but to thank God for Brewster’s life and his service.
“Like Vic, let us be mindful of the many opportunities that God affords us to proclaim the good news to others. It is needed now more than ever in our nation,” he noted.
Brewster, who was a household name in the 1960s to 1990s for several programmes including the then popular Under the Sandbox Tree, Studio Party and Buss Ya Brain, passed away on April 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a lengthy illness.
He was laid to rest at Westbury Cemetery. (JMB)