Memorial services will be held on Saturday for Vencil Eclidius Ventour, who passed away on Dec. 2, in the Hima San Pablo Hospital in San Juan Puerto Rico. He was born in Sugar City, St. Kitts, on Jan. 12, 1968.
There will be no viewing [because] his remains are currently in North Carolina. The service is at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Ebenezer Methodist Church, St. Croix.
He is survived by his daughters: Takesia Jayra Martinez, Shakima Ventour-Estrada, Lynette Ventour and Tonnisha Ventour (North Carolina); wife, Michelle Ventour; grandchild, Noelita Estrada; stepsister, Marilyn Taylor (Trinidad); uncle, Clifford Williams; cousins: Lolita Richardson and family, Dr. Milton Whittaker and family, Sarah Scatliffe and family, Adina Webb, Wingrove and Joseph Williams, Jacobs and Whittaker families (St. Kitts); son-in-law, David Estrada (North Carolina); extended families in England, Canada and United States; close friends: Emmerson “Gold Boy” Elliott, Celine Bradshaw and family, Gladys Bradshaw, Mortimor Alexander, Butch, Candy, Sandra Michael, Charles and Margaret Gilbert, the Ponce family, Caroline Felix and family, Lorozine Williams and family; as well as other family and friends too numerous to mention.
Family requests casual dressing; preferred colors are red, yellow, green and/or black.