♫♫ >>> HELLO.

I´M JIMMY O´BRIEN.

WELCOME TO FRANCIS MARKET SQUARE ON THIS HISTORIC DAY, THE BURIAL OF GOVERNOR CHARLES W. TURNBULL, THE 26th GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WITH ME IS MY COHOST, MY FORMER COLLEAGUE, JOANNE BARRY.

>> IT´S BEEN A LONG TIME.

>> IT´S BEEN A LONG TIME.

IT´S THE END OF THE TURNBULL ERA.

BUT I HAVE A SENSE WE´VE SEEN THE DIFFICULT DAYS THROUGH AND WE GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS A HISTORIAN FOR THE CHURCH.

TRIBUTES ARE BEING PLAYED INSIDE.

THAT WAS GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S FAVORITE SONG.

THE GROUP THAT SANG AT HIS INAUGURAL SERVICE IN 1999.

IT´S A GOOD DAY.

WE´RE MOURNING HIS PASSING BUT THE THEME IS TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.

HE LIVED 87 YEARS.

WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MAN?

>> HE WAS A GENTLE GIANT.

HE HAD A WAY OF DRAFTING YOU TO DO THINGS THAT WERE NOT IN YOUR PORTFOLIO, AND HE ALWAYS HAD A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE TAKE SHARE AT EVERY MEETING.

HIS PHRASE TO ME USED TO BE, "YOU´RE BEING CALLED TO SERVICE AND CALLED TO DUTY," AND THEREFORE YOU COULD NOT REFUSE A TASK THAT HE WAS ASSIGNING YOU EVEN IF IT WASN´T IN YOUR PORTFOLIO.

BUT TODAY IS A GOOD DAY, JIMMY.

I´M GLAD TO SEE SO MANY FORMER COLLEAGUES, FORMER SENATORS, PRESENT SENATORS.

JUST A HUGE AMOUNT OF PERSONS COMING TODAY TO SHOW THEIR RESPECT AND THEIR LOVE FOR GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

EVEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD PEOPLE ARE STANDING AROUND.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO SEE AND BE A PART OF THIS HISTORIC DAY.

>> YOU KNOW, ALREADY THIS IS -- BUNGALOW, ALSO HIS FAMILY.

THE TURNBULLS AND THE SKELTONS ARE TWO OF THE LARGEST FAMILIES IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

I REMEMBER SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR THEY HAD A FAMILY REUNION, AND THE SIZE OF THE FAMILY HAD TO FIT THE FRENCHMAN´S REEF GRAND BALLROOM.

HE IS THE PATRIARCH OF THAT LARGE FAMILY.

YOU CAN SEE MANY OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE INSIDE THE CHURCH.

IT IS SLOWLY FILLING UP WITH THE SERVICE BEGINNING AT 10:00, I SUSPECT MOST WILL BE THERE.

THE CHURCH WILL BE FILLED TO CAPACITY IN A LITTLE WHILE.

>> I KNOW FORMER PRESIDING JUDGE VERN HATS IS A FORMER CLASSMATE OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

HE IS REPRESENTING THE CLASS OF 1952 IN GIVING REMARKS AND TRIBUTE TODAY.

>> YES, JUDGE HODGES, THE CLASS OF ´52 FOR THOSE OF US AT CHARLAMAGNE.

THE CLASS OF ´52, THE CLASS OF ´74, SOME OF THE GREAT CLASSES.

THE CLASS, CLASS OF ´52, MS. UNA TURNBULL WAS A LONG-TIME PRINCIPAL AND TEACHER.

RUDY KRIEGER WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF ´52.

HORACE CARLWOOD.

SO IT IS VERY SIGNIFICANT THAT HE IS THE FORMER PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE TERRITORY AT THAT TIME WAS ONE OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS.

AND WHEN THERE WAS A NEED FOR, YOU KNOW, POLITICS OR ANYTHING, HE WOULD ALSO CALL JUDGE HODGE AND HORACE CARLWOOD.

>> FOR THEIR INPUT.

>> OH, YES.

>> HE WAS ALSO AN EDUCATOR.

HE WAS COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AT ONE POINT.

>> PRINCIPAL OF THE CHARLEMAGNE HIGH SCHOOL.

HE PRESIDED OVER THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN ACTING COMMISSIONER CAPACITY LONGEST IN VOID HISTORY.

FOR SEVERAL GOVERNORS HE WAS ACTING COMMISSIONER.

IN 1978, THE GOVERNOR APPOINTED HIM COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.

IRONICALLY, MRS. WALLAWE HAS ASKED HER DAUGHTER TO REPRESENT HER TODAY.

WE JUST SAW HER.

THE INTERESTING PART ABOUT IT IS AT THAT TIME I WAS A MEMBER OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

I REMEMBER HOLDING THE LITTLE GIRL, BUT SHE HAS GROWN INTO A VERY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY.

SHE LOOKS A LOT LIKE HER MOTHER AND SHE HAS THE FEATURES OF HER FATHER.

>> HER FATHER.

>> SO, YOU KNOW, AS WE LOOK AT THIS WHOLE PERIOD THAT IS NOW ENDING, IT IS -- THERE WERE FIVE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS BEGINNING IN 1964.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS THE FIRST, THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THAT 1964 CONVENTION.

>> CONVENTION.

>> AND HE WAS THE OLDEST ONE IN THE -- IN THE CONVENTION, IN THE FIFTH.

>> THE FIFTH CONVENTION.

>> YES.

>> IT IS IRONIC THAT I DID NOT ATTEND THE HIGH SCHOOL.

>> WE HAVE FORGIVEN.

>> YOU ATTENDED ST. PETER PAUL HIGH SCHOOL, SO I DIDN´T KNOW GOVERNOR TURNBULL AS AN EDUCATOR, BUT I MET HIM IN HIS TERM OF THE THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

THAT WAS THE FIRST JOB THAT I HAD WHEN I GOT BACK HOME FROM COLLEGE.

GOVERNOR ALEXANDER FARLEY WAS PRESIDENT OF THAT CONVENTION.

HE WAS ATTORNEY FARLEY AT THE TIME.

BUT THAT´S WHERE MY PATH FIRST CROSSED WITH GOVERNOR TURNBULL, WAS AT THE THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

>> I ALWAYS TEASED HIM THAT HE WAS THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS BECAUSE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOR THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN BRINGING THE -- SO THE THING ABOUT IT IS HE WAS ABLE TO BRING ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY THAT HE HAD, HIS STATUS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

I THINK THAT -- I DOUBT ANYONE WILL EVER EXCEED THOSE FIVE TERMS.

>> FIVE TERMS.

>> YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ISSUE OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL WOULD BE THAT HE HAD RUN FOR OFFICE MANY TIMES AND NEVER, AND NEVER -- HE NEVER WAS ABLE -- HE WAS NEVER DEFEATED RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.

THAT TO ME WAS A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ANY POLITICIAN, YOU KNOW.

SO IT IS SOMETHING TO REMEMBER AND TO ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THAT.

HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS.

HIS FRATERNITY BROTHERS, YOU ARE A SISTER OF HIS FRATERNITY.

>> I AM A MEMBER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA INCORPORATED AND GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS OUR FRATERNITY BROTHER.

THEY´RE REPRESENTED HERE THIS MORNING.

A NUMBER OF THE ALPHA BROTHERS ARE HERE AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, A WHOLE CONTINGENT OF OFFICIALS.

>> BUT WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE LIKE THIS, DESIGNATED A STATE OFFICIAL, IT IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

THAT´S WHY YOU SEE THE PLACE SO WELL ATTENDED BY THOSE HERE.

I THINK THE BASE IS WELL SITUATED.

I THINK THEY ARE STILL AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR.

>> WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE GOVERNOR RIGHT YET.

>> I SAW THE GOVERNOR, THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR´S CAR PASS BY, SO I ASSUME HE IS HERE.

>> THEY´VE BEEN PREPARING, THE DEPARTMENT, THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE BEEN PREPARING FOR A FEW DAYS.

THE MARKET SQUARE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL.

>> YES, THEY PAINTED THE BUNGALOWS.

THEY DID AWESOME.

THEY WASHED IT DOWN, DISINFECTED IT.

YOU COULD SEE THAT -- >> THERE´S A TENT, THERE´S A TENT UP FOR OVERFLOW.

>> YES.

>> A VIDEO FEED AND A NUMBER OF CHAIRS AND PEOPLE ARE FILLING IN THE CHAIRS, THOSE THAT CAN´T GET INTO THE CHURCH.

THEY´RE FILLING IN THE CHAIRS AND THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE SERVICE FROM THE TENT.

>> AND THERE´S A BIG SCREEN SO THAT -- AND NOW THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF ´52 HAS BEEN REPRESENTED, I THINK IN A LITTLE WHILE WE WILL BE TAKING A BREAK TO GO AND SIT IN THE CHURCH AND WATCH THE TRIBUTE.

THE TRUTH IS I´M PROUD TO ALSO BE DOING THE TRIBUTE.

SO WE WILL NOW TAKE YOU INSIDE THE CHURCH TO THE TRIBUTE, AND WE WILL BE CATCHING UP AFTER THE TRIBUTES ARE FINISHED AND THE SERVICE CONTINUES.

>> -- MOBILITY AND EQUILIBRIUM.

AND AFTER A FEW COMMENTS TO HIM, HE SHIFTED THE CONVERSATION TO "WHEN I COME HOME, THE FIRST THING I WANT YOU TO DO IS YOU ARE ADDING A WEEK IN VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORY BECAUSE MY 3,000-PAGE MANUSCRIPT, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE IT DONE EVERY WEEK ON YOUR PROGRAM."

I SAID, "THAT´S A WONDERFUL IDEA," AND I´M NOT DONE YET.

THAT MANUSCRIPT, IT HAS TO BE PRINTED, AND I EXPECT YOU TO HELP ME GET IT PRINTED.

DOC, I WILL DO THE BEST I CAN WITH THAT BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT A PASSION HE HAD FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE.

IT CAME THROUGH WITH HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT ESTABLISHED THE DIVISION OF CULTURAL EDUCATION, ACTUALLY REVIVED IT.

I WAS ABLE TO HEAD IT UP DURING THE DE YOUNG ADMINISTRATION.

WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE -- PUT SO MANY RESOURCES INTO IT THAT AFTER MY RETIREMENT FROM GOVERNMENT SERVICE DR. TURNBULL AND I WOULD BE IN THERE DOING TREMENDOUS RESEARCH.

WE WOULD LEAVE THERE AND WE WOULD GO OUT TO THE COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY NAMED IN HIS HONOR AND CONTINUE TO DO RESEARCH.

HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT WHAT HE WANTED, ONE OF THE THINGS HE WANTED TO DO WAS SEE THE BOOK THAT HE AUTHORED WITH DR. MARILYN KRIEGER, THE TEXTBOOK, HE WANTED THAT PUBLISHED, BUT HE WANTED TO BRING THE DATES ABOUT THE YEAR 2010 BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED.

BUT REGRETTABLY, THAT DEAL DID NOT HAPPEN BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN IT WILL NOT COME TO PASS.

THIS MAN HAD SUCH A DEEP PASSION FOR OUR HISTORY AND OUR CULTURE THAT IT BROKE HIS HEART WHEN HE SAW THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE VON SHOLTEN COLLECTION DETERIORATED.

WHEN HE WENT WITH ME OVER TO SEE THE COLLECTION AND SAW IT WAS NO LONGER THERE, STOPPING HIM FROM BEING ABLE TO CONTINUE HIS RESEARCH, HE SO LAMENTED OVER THAT, THAT HE WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, I WONDER WHEN PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND I ARE GONE WHO IS GOING TO BE LEFT TO CONTINUE THIS FIGHT.

HE MUSED ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF HIS PASSION FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE.

I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND JUST SHARE WITH YOU, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF HEDGE, BECAUSE OF THE GOOD PEOPLE THAT ENTERED HIS LIFE AND MADE AN IMPRESSION ON HIM.

THERE WAS JIMMY O´BRYAN AND OLLIE BENJAMIN WHO HELPED HIM WITH A LOT OF TYPING AND LETTERS AND MESSAGES LONG AFTER HE LEFT OFFICE.

ANGELA BELAFONTE, WHENEVER THERE WAS A TRIP HE HAD THERE WAS ANGELA HELPING HIM OUT, MAKING SURE THAT HE GOT THE BEST POSSIBLE DEAL ON A TRIP.

THERE WAS -- WHO WOULD TAKE HIM AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. AND MARYLAND TO VARIOUS BOOKSTORES -- PUBLICATION.

THERE WAS ELROY SPROUSE WHO WAS HIS BOOK EXCHANGE BUDDY.

HERE WAS A GUY WHO WHENEVER HE TRAVELED HE WOULD FIND -- OH, THIS ONE?

YEAH, WHENEVER HE TRAVEL AND HE SEE A BOOK HE WOULD SAY, UH-HUH, LET ME GET THIS FOR DR. TURNBULL, AND SO DID DR. TURNBULL RECIPROCATE.

OF COURSE, THERE WAS DUTIFUL AND RELIABLE SAM.

THERE WAS SO MUCH WE COULD SAY ABOUT HIM.

OF COURSE, HE COULD NOT GET ENOUGH OF BONNIE TURNBULL´S TALKS.

HE COULD NOT GET ENOUGH OF MY WIFE, WILMA, AND -- TO PUT IN.

HE COULD NOT GET ENOUGH OF THE CHEF, MS. SPRINGER, OVER AT THE TEA HOUSE AND GARDEN, RED PEA SOUP AND FRIED OLD -- THERE´S AN INTERESTING STORY YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT IN TIME ABOUT A COUSIN WHO REFUSED TO LET HIM PAY FOR HIS OWN MEALS.

AND FROM NEW YORK HE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT HE SENT THE MONEY.

THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO PLAYED A TRIP, A TREMENDOUS ROLE IN HIS LIFE.

IT WAS VERY CLEAR TO ME AND IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO THIS COMMUNITY, WHEN YOU DO GOOD, GOOD DOES BEFALL YOU.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR YOU.

AND THE KIND OF PERSONALITY THAT HE HAD, EVEN IN HIS SCHOOL DAYS AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE WOMEN, TEACHERS WHO SAVED HIM FROM GETTING A BEATING.

THERE WERE TIMES WHEN THEY WERE -- ATTEMPTED TO FIRE HIM DURING THE ICM POPULAR YEARS, AND IT WAS WOMEN WHO CAME FORWARD AND REALLY MADE SURE THAT THEY DIDN´T TOUCH CHARLES.

AND THEN THERE IS, OF COURSE, JOEL RHYMER MALLOY WHO HELPED TREMENDOUSLY WITH HIM.

AGAIN, YOU WILL HEAR A LOT MORE ABOUT THIS WHEN YOU LISTEN TO MY PROGRAM.

BUT I WANT TO JUST END BY SIMPLY SAYING I DO NOT WISH ETERNAL AND EVERLASTING REST BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION, AND I BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY THAT ON THAT DAY HE WILL RISE IN GLORY AND WILL BE MARCHING INTO PARADISE TO THE CHORUS OF THIS GREAT ANTHEM OF HYMN.

AND IF YOU KNOW IT, SING IT WITH ME.

♫ SWEEPING THROUGH THE GATES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM ♫ ♫ WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, THE LAMB, THE LAMB ♫ ♫ SWEEPING THROUGH THE GATES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM ♫ ♫ WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB ♫ >> THANK YOU.

NOW WE WILL HAVE ROSITA BROWN.

>> THE SONG "SWEET BEULAH LAND" IS AN OLD AND WELL-KNOWN SONG THAT I DEDICATE TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF OUR DEAR FRIEND, DR. CHARLES TURNBULL.

MAY THE WORDS BE THE SENTIMENT OF ALL OUR HEARTS.

♫♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND ♫ ♫ I´M LONGING FOR YOU ♫ ♫AND SOME DAY ON THEE I´LL STAND ♫ ♫ THERE MY HOME SHALL BE ETERNAL ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND, SWEET BEULAH LAND ♫ ♫ I´M KIND OF HOMESICK FOR A COUNTRY ♫ ♫ TO WHICH I´VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE ♫ ♫ NO SAD GOODBYES WILL THERE BE SPOKEN ♫ ♫ FOR TIME WON´T MATTER ANYMORE ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND, I´M LONGING FOR YOU ♫ ♫ AND SOME DAY ON THEE I´LL STAND ♫ ♫ THERE MY HOME SHALL BE ETERNAL ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND, SWEET BEULAH LAND ♫ ♫ I´M LOOKING NOW, JUST ACROSS THE RIVER ♫ ♫ TO WHERE MY FAITH, SHALL END IN SIGHT ♫ ♫ THERE´S JUST A FEW MORE DAYS TO LABOR ♫ ♫ AND THEN I´LL TAKE MY HEAVENLY FLIGHT ♫ ♫ TO BEULAH LAND, I´M LONGING FOR YOU ♫ ♫ AND SOME DAY ON THEE I´LL STAND ♫ ♫ THERE MY HOME SHALL BE ETERNAL ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND, SWEET BEULAH LAND ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND, SWEET BEULAH LAND ♫ ♫ BEULAH LAND ♫ [ APPLAUSE ] >> WE GIVE THANKS TO MRS. ANITA BROWN.

AS WE MOVE ALONG, WE ARE GOING TO NOW HAVE THE HONORABLE JOHN -- GOVERNOR JOHN DEYOUNG JR. >> GOOD MORNING, CHURCH.

YOU KNOW, IT IS AN EXTREME HONOR FOR ME TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS ON BEHALF OF GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY, TO HIS FRIENDS, AND MOST ESPECIALLY TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS COMMUNITY.

AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, I RAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TURNBULL IN 2002 AND I LOST.

HANDILY.

BUT THE GRACIOUS MAN THAT HE WAS, HE CALLED ME UP AND HE SAID "A GOOD RUN."

AND THAT TO ME REPRESENTED GOVERNOR TURNBULL, THE CIVILITY OF POLITICS, THE CONCERN OF A COMMUNITY.

I FIRST HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET GOVERNOR TURNBULL WEN I JOINED THE FARLEY ADMINISTRATION IN 1987, AND I GOT REACQUAINTED WITH HIM WHEN HE RAN FOR OFFICE WHEN COMMISSIONER RUDY CRAGER REACHED OUT TO ME TO WORK ON THE CAMPAIGN.

UNFORTUNATELY, I HAD JUST STARTED A NEW JOB AND WAS UNABLE TO GET AS INVOLVED AS I WOULD LIKE.

BUT AS PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AS SOMEONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN TERMS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, GOVERNOR TURNBULL REACHED OUT TO ME AND GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY THAT I THINK IN MANY WAYS SPARKED MY INTEREST IN PUBLIC SERVICE.

HE ASKED ME TO WORK WITH HIS TEAM ON THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN AND TO WORK WITH HIM ALSO ON THE CRUISE SHIP TASK FORCE.

THAT TO ME WAS THE BEAUTY OF GOVERNOR CHARLES TURNBULL, THE CIVILITY THAT HE HAD, THE EMBRACING THAT TOOK PLACE, THINGS THAT I THINK TODAY IN POLITICS IS VERY MUCH ABSENT.

WHILE YOU MAY DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER, IT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE PERSONALLY DISAGREEABLE.

I THINK THAT´S WHAT HE REPRESENTED MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, THAT I ENJOY, THAT UNTIL THIS DAY I FIND VERY HUMBLING.

TO ME CHARLES TURNBULL, ALEX FARLEY REPRESENTED GENTLEMEN OF QUALITY THAT I THINK MANY OF US IN MANY WAYS EMULATE EACH OF THEIR QUALITIES IN THEIR OWN DIFFERENT WAYS, THAT EACH SERVED IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, AND MANY OF THE THINGS WE DO TODAY ARE A REFLECTION OF THEM.

AS I MENTIONED IN THE BOOKLET, THERE´S A TRADITION AMONG GOVERNORS THAT I DIDN´T LEARN UNTIL GOVERNOR TURNBULL TAUGHT ME.

AFTER HE WON HE SAT ME DOWN AND HE SPOKE FOR A WHILE AND LET ME KNOW, DO YOU REALIZE YOU ARE PART OF A VERY EXCLUSIVE CLUB?

THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN OF US TODAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAVE GIVEN YOU A VERY TREMENDOUS HONOR, AND WE NEVER CRITICIZE EACH OTHER.

THAT AGAIN TO ME IS REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS CHARACTER.

BUT IN HIS BOOKLET MESSAGE TO ME, I WANT TO READ A COUPLE OF WORDS THAT HE SAID THAT HAVE ALWAYS STUCK WITH ME.

IT WON´T BE EASY BUT IT WILL BE REWARDING.

DO YOUR BEST.

YOU ARE ONE OF A VERY FEW PEOPLE THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAVE GIVEN THIS HONOR SO EMBRACE THE VALUE EACH DAY.

AND WHEN IT IS OVER, IT WILL BE APPRECIATED OVER TIME AS AN HONOR AS THE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE ASSUMED BY THE NEXT GOVERNOR.

TO GOVERNOR TURNBULL, REST IN PEACE AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DID.

>> THANK YOU.

OUR NEXT PRESENTER, HONORABLE FRED GREGORY, PRESIDENT OF THE 34th LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> GOOD MORNING, CHURCH.

>> GOOD MORNING.

>> GOOD MORNING TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF FORMER GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

GOOD MORNING.

IT IS WITH DEEP HUMILITY THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 34th LEGISLATURE, AS WE JOIN THE FAMILY AND THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF AN EXCEPTIONAL PUBLIC SERVANT AND SERVANT LEADER.

I AM REMINDED OF SOMETHING THAT WAS SAID AT NELSON MANDELA´S FUNERAL.

A GREAT LEADER IS ABOUT SERVING PEOPLE WITH SELFLESSNESS, WITH SACRIFICE AND WITH THE NEED TO PUT THE COMMON GOOD AHEAD OF PERSONAL INTERESTS.

THIS PHRASE, THAT QUOTE STAYED WITH ME AND REMINDS ME OF THE MAN, THE LIFE THAT WE ARE CELEBRATING TODAY.

HE SERVED THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AS A TEACHER, A PRINCIPAL, A COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, A MEMBER OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS´ BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND EVENTUALLY MOVING ON TO SERVING IN THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS, GOVERNOR OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.

IN EACH OF THOSE POSITIONS HE WAS SELFLESS WITH HIS SERVICE AND WORKED TO BUILD CAMARADERIE AND CONSENSUS TO MAKE THE VIRGIN ISLANDS A BETTER PLACE.

HE WAS A PROUD VIRGIN ISLANDER WHO SERVED WITH DISTINCTION, GRACE AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HUMILITY AND CIVILITY.

I FIRST MET HIS ACQUAINTANCE WHEN WE BOTH SERVED ON THE 13th BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND OVER THE YEARS OUR PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP TRANSITIONED TO A FRIENDSHIP.

FORMER GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO PROVIDE WISE COUNSEL, WORDS OF WISDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO THOSE OF US WHO SERVE AS LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

LINDA ELLIS AUTHORED A POEM CALLED "THE DASH."

THE POEM SPEAKS TO OUR DASH, OUR TIME SPENT ON THIS EARTH AND WHAT WE DID DURING OUR LIFETIME AND HOW WE WOULD BE REMEMBERED.

I BELIEVE THAT CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL´S DASH WAS SPENT GIVING MUCH OF HIMSELF TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE -- TO THE SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS THAT HE LOVED SO DEARLY AS EVIDENCED BY THE OUTPOURING OF LOVE HERE THIS MORNING.

HE SERVED HIS PEOPLE HONORABLY AND WITH GREAT HUMILITY, AND I AM CERTAIN WHEN GOD ASKS HIM ABOUT HIM, HE WILL SAY, I LIVED MY LIFE SO AS NOT TO FEAR DEATH, MY LORD.

AS LUKE 23:43 STATES, JESUS WILL ANSWER HIM, TRULY TELL YOU TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.

TO HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES, THERE ARE NO WORDS, THERE ARE NO WORDS WE CAN OFFER TODAY THAT WILL LESSEN YOUR GRIEF, BUT I HOPE THAT YOU WILL FIND SOLACE IN KNOWING HE MADE A PROFOUND IMPACT ON OUR TERRITORY AND ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING HIM WITH US.

MY CONDOLENCES TO YOUR FAMILY ON BEHALF OF ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 34th LEGISLATURE.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

>> AS WE MOVE ALONG, I JUST WANT TO REMIND OUR PRESENTERS IN THE INTEREST OF TIME TO REVIEW YOUR PRESENTATION.

AT THIS TIME WE WILL HEAR FROM THE HONORABLE SENATOR -- CORRECTION, THE V.I.

DELEGATE TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, STACEY PLASKETT.

>> GOOD MORNING.

GOOD MORNING TO GOVERNOR BRYAN, THE FIRST LADY, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROACH, GOVERNOR JOHN P. DEYOUNG, MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION -- PREMIERE WHEATLEY AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS´ GOVERNMENT, DIGNITARIES INCLUDING CLERGY AS WELL AS THE JUDICIARY.

OF COURSE, LOVED ONES, FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

I WOULD LIKE TO FIRST SHARE MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONE OF MYSELF, MY STAFF, MY FAMILY AND THE 117th CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR AFFORDING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A FEW WORDS.

TODAY WE HONOR AND CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

I FEEL PRIVILEGED ALONG WITH SO MANY OF US TO HAVE LIVED IN A TIME AND PLACE TO HAVE KNOWN A MAN OF HIS CALIBER, DEVOTED AND DETERMINED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VIRGIN ISLANDERS, BE IT THROUGH EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OR ELSEWHERE.

FOR OVER 60 YEARS HE SERVED THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS BUT DEDICATING HIS LIFE TO OUR STUDENTS AS AN EDUCATOR AND COMMISSIONER, PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AS WELL AS BEING HEAD OF GOVERNMENT FOR OUR TERRITORY FOR TWO TERMS.

A CONSUMMATE GENTLEMAN, AN INTELLECTUAL, GOVERNOR TURNBULL AND I SHARED A COMMON LOVE FOR HISTORY.

MY FONDEST MEMORY OF HIM WAS MY DEEP APPRECIATION WHEN HE ACCEPTED MY INVITATION TO BE MY GUEST AT THE OPENING OF THE SMITHSONIAN´S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM.

I´M TREMENDOUSLY GRATEFUL THAT I WAS ALLOWED TO SHARE SUCH A SIGNIFICANT MOMENT WITH HIM.

WE SPENT TIME TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MUSEUM, NOT JUST TO AMERICAN HISTORY BUT THE DEEP IMPORTANCE OF THE WORK TO PRESERVE AND SHARE OUR OWN CARIBBEAN AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORY.

TO DO THAT NOT SOLELY FOR OURSELVES AND OUR OWN ENJOYMENT, BUT AS A GUIDE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.

AS WE HONOR HIS LEGACY IN LIFE, I PRAY GOD´S PEACE AND COMFORT CONTINUE TO SURROUND HIS SISTER, HIS SON, EXTENDED FAMILY, LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND POWER.

>> CONGRESS LADY STACEY PLASKETT, WE SIT DOWN.

I´M GOING TO MAKE US SWITCH HERE.

THE FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE -- I WILL SWITCH BACK.

WE HAVE A SOLO BY MRS. LAURA FREEMAN WOODLEY.

>> GOOD MORNING.

I OFFER MY DEEPEST AND SINCEREST CONDOLENCES TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY.

SPECIAL MUSICAL RENDITION ENTITLED "GOD AND GOD ALONE" WILL BE RENDERED THIS MORNING.

>> GOD AND GOD ALONE CREATED ALL OF THESE THINGS WE CALL OUR OWN.

FROM THE MIGHTY TO THE SMALL, THE GLORY IN THEM ALL IS GOD AND GOD´S ALONE.

MAY THIS MUSICAL RENDITION BE OF COMFORT TO ALL WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE AND MAY PROVIDE YOU WITH A PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING.

♫♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE CREATED ALL THESE THINGS WE CALL OUR OWN ♫ ♫ FROM THE MIGHTY TO THE SMALL ♫ ♫ THE GLORY IN THEM ALL ♫ ♫ st GOD´S AND GOD´S ALONE ♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ REVEALS THE TRUTH IN ALL WE CALL UNKNOWN ♫ ♫ AND ALL THE BEST AND WORST OF MAN WON´T CHANGE THE MASTER´S PLAN ♫ ♫ IT´S GOD´S AND GOD´S ALONE ♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ LET EVERYTHING THAT LIVES ♫ ♫ FOR GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ WILL BE THE JOY OF OUR ETERNAL HOME ♫ ♫ HE WILL BE OUR ONE DESIRE ♫ ♫ OUR HEARTS WILL NEVER TIRE ♫ ♫ OF GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ IS FIT TO TAKE THE UNIVERSE´S THRONE ♫ ♫ LET EVERYTHING THAT LIVES RESERVE ITS TRUEST PRAISE ♫ ♫ FOR GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ GOD AND GOD ALONE IS FIT TO TAKE THE UNIVERSE´S THRONE ♫ ♫ LET EVERYTHING THAT LIVES RESERVE ITS TRUEST PRAISE ♫ ♫ FOR GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫ LET EVERYTHING THAT LIVES RESERVE ITS TRUEST PRAISE ♫ ♫ FOR GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫♫ ♫ FOR GOD AND GOD ALONE ♫ ♫♫ [ APPLAUSE ] >> SISTER FREEMAN.

AT THIS TIME WE´RE GOING TO HAVE THE FORMER ADMINISTRATOR OF ST. THOMAS, ST. JOHN, MR. JIMMY O´BRYAN.

>>> GOOD MORNING.

AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, I´M A LINCOLN SCHOLAR.

AND SO WHAT HE USED TO DO WHEN HE SAW A ROOM FULL OF LEADERS OF THE TERRITORY OR THE NATION, HE WOULD JUST DO A MIGHTY BOW, IN RECOGNITION TO YOUR ROLE AND YOUR SERVICE TO THE NATION AND THE TERRITORY.

ON THE NIGHT OF HIS ARREST AND SUBSEQUENT CRUCIFIXION, MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST UTTERED THESE IMMORTAL WORDS, "FATHER, IF THIS CUP MAY NOT PASS FROM ME EXCEPT THAT I DRINK FROM IT, THY WILL BE DONE."

THAT IS MY MIND AS I PAY A TRIBUTE TO MY MENTOR, LEADER, PROFESSIONAL, FRIEND, HISTORIAN, MY DEAR FRIEND, DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

THE SIXTH ELECTED AND 26th AMERICAN GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES.

MY MEMORIES ARE MANY.

ON JUNE THE 19th, 1998 AFTER A DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEARING AT POINT PLEASANT LEADING TO MY ASCENSION TO THE LEADERSHIP AND CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, I HELD A LUNCHEON AT MOLLY MALONE´S RED HOOK FOR PARTY LEADERS.

THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WAS WHO WAS GOING TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.

IT WAS JUNE AND WE HAD NONE.

RETIRED UVI PROFESSOR DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL I INVITED TO THAT MEETING, AND DURING THE COURSE OF OUR CONVERSATION DR. CHARLES TURNBULL TOLD US HE WAS PLANNING TO RUN FOR THE SENATE.

MR. ALAN RICHARDSON, THEN I THINK THE FORMER DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS, JUMPED UP AND SAID, MAN, YOU BEEN A COMMISSIONER, YOU BEEN A MEMBER BOARD AND COMMISSIONER, YOU SHOULDN´T RUN FOR THE SENATE, YOU SHOULD RUN FOR GOVERNOR.

THAT DAY LIGHT BULBS WENT OFF IN ALL OF OUR HEADS AND WE LOOKED AT HIM IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT THAT DAY.

THERE HE WAS, A POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.

CHARLES AND I SPOKE THAT NIGHT ABOUT HIM RUNNING.

MY INTEREST SPARKED WHAT HE SAID TO ME, THAT HE HAD RUN FOR OFFICE MANY TIMES IN HIS LIFETIME AND HE HAD NEVER LOST AN ELECTION.

I COMMITTED TO WORK FOR HIM AND WITH HIM IF HE DECIDED TO RUN AND I WOULD STAY WITH HIM UNTIL THE END.

BY THE GRACE OF ALMIGHTY GOD I STAND HERE AT THE END.

THE CANDIDATE FOUND, I CALLED MY BOSS, DR. DONNA CHRISTIAN CHRISTENSEN AND TOLD HER THAT WE HAD A CANDIDATE.

HIS CAMPAIGN SHARED AN IMPERISHABLE PAGE IN VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORY AS HE WON BY A LANDSLIDE NOT ONCE BUT TWICE.

CHARLES TURNBULL REALLY RESONATED WITH THE VIRGIN ISLANDS PEOPLE.

ON JANUARY 4th, 1994 -- 1999, I´M SORRY, CHRISTCHURCH WAS THE SCENE OF HIS INAUGURAL CEREMONY.

THAT NIGHT BEFORE WE STAYED UP AT THE LEGION HOTEL UNTIL ALMOST 4:30.

JOHN MYERS, HIS CHIEF OF SECURITY AT THE TIME, AND I WORKING ON THE FINAL WORK ON HIS SPEECH.

YOU KNOW, WHEN IT CAME TO THE SELECTION OF A THEME FOR THE SERVICE MY PREFERENCE WAS MICAH, THE PROPHET MICAH.

WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE BUT TO DO JUSTLY, TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD.

DR. TURNBULL HAD ANOTHER VERSION, BUT I WAS DOING THE TYPING.

SO WHEN IT WAS TIME TO PUT THE WORDS TO PAPER, I TYPED MICAH.

THE MORNING WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH I WAS DEAD TIRED BECAUSE I DIDN´T GET HOME UNTIL 7:00.

WELL, WE WALKED INTO THIS CHURCH, THAT WAS THE THEME, MICAH WAS THE THEME OF THE SERVICE.

WELL, THE INTERESTING PART OF IT WHEN THE SERVICE ENDED, I WAS IN THE INAUGURAL CHAIR SO I STOOD IN MY APPROPRIATE PLACE WAITING FOR HIM TO WALK OUT OF THE CHURCH.

WHEN HE CAME OUT AND HE STARTED HEADING TO HIS CAR, CHARLES TURNBULL CALLED ME TO HIS CAR AND HE SAID TO ME, YOU WON THE POINT WITH MICAH BUT I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TELL DONNA THAT YOU ARE COMING TO WORK WITH ME TOMORROW AS ASSISTANT TO THE GOVERNOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

WELL, THAT WAS A HARD ONE BECAUSE I ENJOYED WORKING FOR DONNA CHRISTENSEN.

IT LED -- THAT THE GIANT OF A MAN WAS NOT ONLY GIANT, BUT HE WAS A GENTLE BUT WISE, WISE MAN.

I WITNESSED MANY TIMES HIS WISDOM AND HIS COMPASSION.

SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFFICE HE ADAMANTLY REFUSED TO AGREE TO A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PROPOSAL TO SEND HOME 2,500 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF A GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE.

AT THE POINT WHEN HE CAME THERE, WHEN HE WAS BEING PRESSURED TO FIRE THEM, CHARLES TURNBULL TO MY SURPRISE SLAMMED HIS TWO HANDS ON HIS DESK AND SAID, "WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO EAT?

WHO IS GOING TO PAY THE CHILDREN´S TUITION?

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN ON GERS?"

THAT´S WHAT CHARLES TURNBULL.

HE STOOD UP FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS´ PEOPLE THAT DAY, AND I HONOR AND RESPECT HIM FOR IT.

EDUCATION WAS IMPORTANT TO HIM, AS WAS READING.

IN OUR TRAVELS TO WASHINGTON AFTER THE BUSINESS OF THE CONFERENCE WAS OVER, GOVERNOR TURNBULL WOULD QUICKLY TELL US IT IS TIME TO GO SHOPPING FOR BOOKS.

JOHN MYERS AND MR. HORACE BROOKS, RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM TODAY, AND THEY REMEMBER WE GOT TO CARRY THE BOXES AND THE BAGS AWAY AFTER HE HAD GONE SHOPPING AND PICKED UP 20 AND 50 BOOKS.

NEXT TIME JIMMY O´BRYAN CANNOT BE FOUND AND HIDE IN MY ROOM, GUYS.

THAT WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME.

BUT HE BOUGHT VERY RARE AND EXPENSIVE BLACK HISTORY BOOKS AND BROUGHT BACK TO THE ISLANDS TO GIVE TO THE LIBRARIES.

MY LAST CONVERSATION WITH HIM WAS HEARING HIS DISTURBED TONE ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE BOOKS WERE PUT IN STORAGE AND NOT IN THE LIBRARY.

HE BELIEVED IN CHILDREN AND THE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS´ YOUTH.

HE VISITED SCHOOLS AND WENT DIRECTLY TO THE LIBRARIES TO SEE THE CONDITION AND THE QUALITY OF THE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARIES.

HE BROUGHT TO GOVERNMENT SERVICE MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO TODAY ARE TAKING MAJOR ROLES IN THIS GOVERNMENT, AND I COULD RIGHT OFF MY MIND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF KEVIN RODRIGUEZ.

HE REMINDED ME THAT THE TRUE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY, HIS 40 YEARS, AND HE LECTURED THAT GREAT LEADERS THAT ARE CONVINCED THAT THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING SHOULD AWAIT THE VINDICATION OF HISTORY AND NOT PLAY FOR THE POPULAR APPEAL.

HE REMINDED ME HIS PLACE IN HISTORY IS SECURED.

SECRETARY OF WAR WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

THE NIGHT LINCOLN DIED SAID IT BEST.

THAT NOW HE BELONGS TO THE AGES.

AND SO I CLOSE AND WITH WORDS FROM ONE OF HIS FAVORITE HYMNS, "HOW GREAT THOU ART."

AND WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME WITH SHOUT OF ACCLAMATION AND TAKE ME HOME, WHAT JOY SHALL FILMY HEART.

THEN I SHALL BOW IN HUMBLE ADORATION AND THERE PROCLAIM, HOW GREAT THOU ART.

GOD BLESS YOU, CHARLES, AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL WHO ARE CALLED TO THE SERVICE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

THANK YOU.

>> YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR MAKING A TRIP.

THAT´S AN INDICATION THAT WE NEED TO BE BRIEF.

WE HAVE TWO MORE PRESENTATIONS.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> GOOD MORNING.

GREETINGS TO ALL MY FELLOW VIRGIN ISLANDERS AND FRIENDS.

I REALIZE THE PROTOCOL ESTABLISHED BUT I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE LOVED ONE OF OUR DEAR DEPARTED DR. TURNBULL AS WELL AS THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE PREMIERE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

I AM HONORED TO BE INVITED TO OFFER A SHORT TRIBUTE TO MY FRIEND, POLITICAL MENTOR, FRATERNITY BROTHER AND FELLOW VIRGIN ISLANDER.

I HAVE KNOWN DR. TURNBULL FOR OVER 15 YEARS.

IN PARTICULAR, WE GOT CLOSER AT THE END OF HIS LAST TERM AS GOVERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS AROUND 2006.

I REMEMBER WHEN I SERVED AS THE WATER AND SEWAGE DIRECTOR.

THERE WAS A -- THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS HOSTED THE VIRGIN ISLANDS CONFERENCE ON ST. THOMAS AND I WAS TASKED WITH MAKING A PRESENTATION.

AFTER THE PRESENTATION THE LATE GOVERNOR CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, "YOUR PRESENTATION WAS GOOD, BUT, MR. WILLARD, IT WAS TOO LONG."

I GUESS THE PROFESSOR INSTINCT WAS COMING OUT.

WE CONTINUED OVER THE YEARS TO EXCHANGE PHONE CALLS AND VISITS, AND WHEN HE WOULD COME UP TO TALK ABOUT THE PLACE OF HIS PARENTS, I WOULD BE THE ONE TO PICK HIM UP AND TAKE HIM AROUND.

OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS AS HE DID HIS ERRANDS AROUND TOWN OR EVEN TO ATTEND FUNERAL OR OFFICIAL EVENTS, I CONSIDERED IT A PRIVILEGE TO DRIVE THE FORMER GOVERNOR WHEN HE WAS ON TORTOLA.

HE WAS A CARIBBEAN MAN, A VIRGIN ISLANDS MAN.

HE LOVED POLITICS AND THAT IS WHY HE BECAME MY POLITICAL MENTOR.

I OFTEN TEASE HIM THAT HE WAS NOT DOING A GOOD JOB AS MY POLITICAL MENTOR.

I REMEMBERED IN 2018 WHEN I REPORTED TO HIM THAT I RAN IN WHAT WE´LL CONSIDER IN THE BVI A PRIMARY WITHIN MY POLITICAL PARTY AND LOST BY FOUR VOTES.

HIS RESPONSE WAS, WELL, I NEVER LOST AN ELECTION.

THAT WAS SOME ENCOURAGEMENT, WASN´T IT?

GOVERNOR TURNBULL HAS LIVED A FULL LIFE, AND THOSE WHO LOVE AND RESPECTED HIM WILL ALWAYS HAVE FOND MEMORIES.

MANY WILL AGREE HE HAD AN INTELLECT THAT WAS UNMATCHED, AND WHETHER IT WAS HIS LOVE FOR FAMILY, COUNTRY, HIS FRATERNITY, ALPHA PHI ALPHA AND FRIENDS, HE HAD STOOD OUT.

A LIGHT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS IS GONE.

A VOICE OF REASON IS STILL AND A PLACE LEFT VACANT IN OUR TERRITORIES.

A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO BEFORE HE PASSED I CALLED HIM IN MARYLAND TO SAY I WAS NO LONGER THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

HIS RESPONSE WAS, I HEARD THE NEWS LONG TIME.

BUT TO SMOOTH IT OVER HE REMINDED ME THAT HE WAS THERE AT MY SWEARING IN.

I REMINDED HIM AGAIN THAT HE WAS NOT DOING A GOOD JOB AS MY POLITICAL MENTOR.

HE SAID AMONG OTHER THINGS, LEARN TO PICK UP YOUR PHONE WHEN I CALL.

THIS BROTHER HAD A PRODUCTIVE LIFE FROM BEING A GODFATHER, TEACHER, MENTOR, PROFESSOR, COMMISSIONER, GOVERNOR, ALPHA BROTHER, BUT WHATEVER HIS ROLE WAS HE HAS LEFT FOOTPRINTS THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WE STILL BELIEVE IN OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, THAT HE IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, AND HE THAT BELIEVETH IN HIM, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET HE WILL LIVE AGAIN.

DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY AS THE GOOD BOOK ASKS, OH, DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?

O, GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY.

REST, GOVERNOR, AS YOU IN YOUR LIFE HAVE NEVER WRENCHED OR CRIED ALOUD.

OVER THE YEARS, WHATEVER THE CHALLENGES WERE THEY FOUND YOU UNAFRAID.

I WILL SURELY MISS OUR LONG CONVERSATIONS, PICKING HIM UP FROM THE FERRY WHETHER IN WESTIN ON TORTOLA OR HIM GIVING ME THE HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FROM THE GOOD OLD DAYS IN ROTUNG.

GOODBYE, BROTHER TURNBULL.

GOODBYE, CHARLES.

GOODBYE, MENTOR.

UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN MAY GOD HOLD YOU IN PALM OF HIS HANDS.

>> WE SAY THANKS TO THE HONORABLE JULIAN WILLOCK.

NOW WE WILL HAVE COMMENTS ABOUT THE HONORABLE DR. NATALIO D. WHEATLEY, PREMIER OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.

FOLLOWING THE PREMIERE WE WILL HAVE THE PREPARATION FOR THE SERVICE, SELECTION BY BEATRICE SPROULE, AND THEN THE SERVICE WILL BEGIN AS THE MINISTER ENTERS.

>> GOVERNOR BRYAN, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DIGNITARIES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD MORNING.

I´M HERE WITH THE DEPUTY PREMIERE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, THE HONORABLE KAI REIMER, THE HONORABLE MITCH TURNBULL, FORMER SECRETARY MRS. CAROLYN IGUE.

WE COUNT IT AS A PRIVILEGE TO COME AND PAY TRIBUTE TO THIS GREAT MAN.

ON BEHALF OF MY FAMILY AND THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS I EXTEND HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY, FRIENDS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS ON THE SAD OCCASION OF THE PASSING OF FORMER GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

WHEN YOU MOURN IN THE U.S. VI, WE MOURN IN THE BVI.

WHEN YOU HURT, WE HURT.

WHEN YOU CRY, WE CRY, BECAUSE WE ARE ONE PEOPLE AND OUR BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP TRANSCEND THE WATERS BETWEEN US.

THIS YEAR MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST FRIENDSHIP DAY WAS HELD, CELEBRATING THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.

NO ONE EPITOMIZED THAT FRIENDSHIP MORE THAN FORMER GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

HE COINED THE PHRASE "THE GREATER VIRGIN ISLANDS."

HE, ALONG WITH OUR OWN FORMER PREMIERE SMITH, SIGNED THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO ESTABLISH THE INTER-VIRGIN ISLANDS COUNCIL.

EVEN AT THE ADMITTING OFFICE HE WOULD BE A CONSTANT FIXTURE AT FRIENDSHIP DAYS.

IN FACT, I WAS HONORED TO SHARE A VEHICLE WITH HIM AT THE LAST FRIENDSHIP DAY.

WE TALKED TOGETHER, WE LAUGHED TOGETHER, AND IN SO DOING WE CONTINUED THE BUILDING OF A VIRGIN ISLANDS WHICH IS STRONGER TOGETHER.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE, FORMER GOVERNOR TURNBULL IS MY COUSIN, MY BELOVED FAMILY.

HE ALSO WAS A PROUD -- HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WHILE HE MAY BE PHYSICALLY GONE, THE MEMORY OF HIS LOVE AND KINDNESS REMAINS.

WHILE WE WILL NO LONGER BE GRACED BY HIS SMILE, HIS LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS´ IDEAL IS CEMENTED IN OUR FRIENDSHIP.

LONG LIVE THE GREATER VIRGIN ISLANDS.

LONG LIVE THE LEGACY AND MEMORY OF THIS GREAT VIRGIN ISLANDS´ HERO.

MAY GOD WRAP HIS HEALING AND COMFORTING ARMS AROUND HIS LOVED ONES.

MAY THEY BE ASSURED THAT HE IS MORE THAN ABLE, AND MAY THE SOUL OF CHARLES TURNBULL, OUR GENTLE GIANT, OUR HISTORIAN, OUR EDUCATOR, OUR SOVEREIGN LEADER AND OUR FRIEND REST IN PEACE.

I THANK YOU.

>> GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

YOU HAVE COME THIS MORNING TO BE THE FAMILY OF THE LATE GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL AS THEY SAY THEIR FINAL GOODBYES AND BECAUSE OF THAT THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU.

HE HAD A GREAT LOVE AND SMILE FOR EVERYONE HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH, BUT MOST OF ALL HE HAD GREATEST LOVE FOR HIS FAMILY.

THE CELEBRATION OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S LIFE WILL BEGIN AT 10:35 A.M. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER AT EASTERN CEMETERY.

I WILL GIVE THE FAMILY A FEW MINUTES TO HAVE A FINAL VIEWING.

THE CASKET WILL BE CLOSED AND THE SERVICE WILL BEGIN.

I WOULD ASK EVERYONE TO CHECK YOUR CELLPHONE AND TURN THEM OFF SO THE CEREMONY WILL NOT BE DISTURBED.

ON BEHALF OF THE STAFF OF THE FUNERAL HOME WE WOULD LIKE TO GIVE OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY.

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU, THE FAMILY, ON THIS DAY OF BEREAVEMENT.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY ♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY PEACE ♫ ♫ IN PEACE ♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY IN PEACE ♫ ♫ SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ THERE WILL BE NO TRIALS THERE ♫ ♫ THERE WILL BE NO TRIALS THERE ♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY IN PEACE ♫ ♫ I´LL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ I´LL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ I´LL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫ WE SHALL WALK IN PEACE ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE"] ♫♫ ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE" ] ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" ] ♫ IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL ♫ ♫♫ ♫ IT IS WELL ♫ ♫ IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" ] ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" ] ♫♫ ♫♫ [ ORGAN RENDITION OF "IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" ] ♫♫ ♫ IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ >>> GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE OFFICIANT OF TODAY´S SERVICE.

>> I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE, SAITH THE LORD.

♫♫ ♫♫ HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE DIE, YET SHALL HE LIVE.

AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.

THE HOUR IS COMING AND IT IS NOW WHEN THE DEAD WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD, AND THOSE WHO HEAR WILL LIVE.

>> WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD, AND IT IS CERTAIN WE SHALL CARRY NOTHING OUT.

THE LORD GIVE AND THE LORD HAS TAKEN AWAY.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

>> IF WE LIVE, WE LIVE TO THE LORD, AND IF WE DIE, WE DIE TO THE LORD.

SO THEN WHETHER WE LIVE OR WHETHER WE DIE, WE ARE THE LORD´S.

TO THIS END CHRIST DIED AND LIVED AGAIN, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND OF THE LIVING.

>> OUR SAVIOR, CHRIST JESUS, DEFEATED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL.

I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST.

I AM HE WHO LIVES AND WAS DEAD.

BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVER MORE.

I HAVE THE KEYS OF DEATH AND OF HELL.

>> BECAUSE I LIVE, YOU SHALL LIVE ALSO.

DEATH SHALL BE NO MORE.

NEITHER SHALL THERE BEEN CRYING OR PAIN FOR THE FIRST THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.

>> HONORABLE GOVERNOR ALBERT BRYAN JR AND THE FIRST LADY, YOLANDA BRYAN, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SENATE PRESIDENT DONNA FRED GREGORY, DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, STACEY PLASKETT, PREMIERE OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS HONORABLE WHEATLEY, FORMER GOVERNOR JOHN DEYOUNG JR, MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNOR´S CABINET, MEMBERS OF THE 34th LEGISLATURE, MS. CARL LEWIS REPRESENTING HER MOTHER, MRS. LOVE LEWIS, MEMBERS OF THE LATE GOVERNOR´S FAMILY, OTHER DIGNITARIES, BROTHERS AND SISTERS ALL, I GREET YOU IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND IN THE SAME BREATH WELCOME YOU TO THIS SERVICE OF CELEBRATION AND OF HOME GOING.

I PRAY THAT AS WE WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER, AS WE GIVE GOD THANKS FOR THE LIFE AND WITNESS AND CONTRIBUTION TO NATION BUILDING OF THIS GREAT MAN THAT WE TOO WILL BE INSPIRED, ENCOURAGED AND STRENGTHENED TO LIVE TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE UPLIFTMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY.

WELCOME THEN IN THE NAME OF CHRIST.

BROTHER HEDGINGTON WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD US.

>> OUR OPENING HYMN, THROUGH ALL THE CHANGING THEMES OF LIFE.

♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ THROUGH ALL THE CHAINING SCENES OF LIFE ♫ ♫ IN TROUBLE AND IN JOY ♫ ♫ THE PRAISES OF MY GOD SHALL STILL ♫ ♫ MY HEART AND TONGUE EMPLOY ♫ ♫ ♫♫ ♫ O MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME ♫ ♫ WITH ME EXALT HIS NAME ♫ ♫ WHEN IN DISTRESS, TO HIM I CALLED ♫ ♫ HE TO MY RESCUE CAME ♫ ♫ ♫♫ ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ >>> PLEASE BE SEATED.

LET US PRAY.

MOST GRACIOUS GOD, WE TURN TO YOU IN THE SORROW AND GRIEF OF OUR BEREAVEMENT, PRAYING THAT WE MAY FIND THE STRENGTH WE NEED IN YOUR SUSTAINING GRACE, SO THAT EVEN AS WE MOURN THE DEATH OF ONE WHOM WE KNEW AND LOVED WE MAY NOT BE OVERCOME BY THIS TRIAL BUT WE MAY HOLD FAST, TRUSTING IN YOUR GOODNESS AND MERCY.

ASSURE US, O LORD, OUR GOD, THAT DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THOSE WHO TRUST IN YOU, AND MAY OUR HEARTS BE SO COMPOSED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT ALL BITTERNESS MAY BE SWALLOWED UP IN THE LIGHT AND PEACE YOU GIVE TO YOUR TROUBLED CHILDREN.

THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

>> AMEN.

>> MIGHTY AND ETERNAL GOD, WHO BY THE HOLY SPIRIT MINISTER TO US IN OUR WEAKNESS, AND MAY THE VICTORY OF YOUR SON, JESUS CHRIST, HAVE GIVEN US THE PLEASURE OF ETERNAL LIFE, LIFT US, WE PRAY, ABOVE ALL PRESENT DISTRESS AND SORROW AND SHED THE LIGHT OF YOUR GRACE AND GLORY UPON US.

TO THE SAME JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD.

>> AMEN.

>> WE ARE MET IN THIS SOLEMN MOMENT TO COMMEND FORMER GOVERNOR CHARLES W. TURNBULL.

GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, YOU SENT HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, TO BE OUR REDEEMER, BY WHOSE STRIPES WE ARE HEALED AND IN WHOSE NAME ALONE WE HAVE SALVATION.

LET US RECALL TO MIND THE LIFE OF OUR DECEASED BROTHER.

AND SO AT THIS TIME WE LISTEN TO THE EULOGY.

DR. WHITMAN T. BROWN.

>> THE EULOGY OF GOVERNOR DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

TODAY, AUGUST 13th, 2022, IS A DAY OF MOURNING AND DEEP SORROW FOR MANY OF US HERE AND ALSO FOR OTHER PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WE ARE SAYING A FINAL GOODBYE TO OUR FORMER GOVERNOR, DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, A VIRGIN ISLANDER, A BLOOD BROTHER, A FRATERNITY BROTHER, A FAMILY MEMBER, A FRIEND TO MANY, A TRUE CARIBBEAN MAN AND A PAN AFRICANIST.

IT WAS FOR A TIME OF MOURNING AS IT IS TODAY THAT THOMAS MOORE WROTE THE SPECIAL POEM WHEN SAYS, WHEN I REMEMBER ALL THE FRIENDS TOGETHER AS SEEN AROUND ME FALL LIKE LEAVES IN WINTER WEATHER, I FEEL LIKE ONE WHO TREADS ALONE SOME BANQUET HALL DESERTED, WHOSE LIVES ARE LEFT, THE GARLANDS OF BEAUTY DEAD, AND ALL BUT HE DEPARTED.

THUS, IN THE STILL OF NIGHT, IF SLUMBERS CHANGE HAVE BONDED, SAD MEMORY BRINGS THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS ALONG.

THE EYES THAT SHOWN THAT ARE NOW DIM AND GONE.

THE CHEERFUL HEART NOW BROKEN.

THERE´S ALSO AN AFRICAN PROVERB WHICH SAYS, DEATH IS LIKE A CORPSE WHICH AT SOME POINT OR ANOTHER EVERY ONE OF US HAS TO WEAR.

GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL IS NOT ALIVE AND WELL TODAY.

HIS BODY IS HERE, BUT NOT HIS CONSCIOUS SELF.

WE ARE MISSING HIM ALREADY.

HIS TURN TO WEAR THE DEATH GARMENT CAME JUST OVER ONE MONTH AGO, AND LIFE WAS TAKEN FROM HIM.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S PLACE AT THE TABLE, AT THIS CHURCH, IN THE COMMUNITY WILL NOW BE EMPTY.

HE´S GONE FROM US AND FROM THE WORLD FOREVER, AND WE WILL ALL BEGIN TO REMEMBER THE TRUTH WHICH SAYS BECAUSE LIFE IS EXPERIENCED DEATH MUST BE ENDURED.

HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE MANY MEMORIES WE KNEW TO REFLECT ON, TO SHARE AND EVEN TO SMILE ON SOMETIMES.

GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL LIVED A QUIET, GENTLE, BUT RICH, MEANINGFUL LIFE.

HE TOUCHED THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE IN THESE ISLANDS IN VERY SPECIAL AND MEMORABLE WAYS.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD MEMORIES OF HIM FOR A LONG TIME.

WE WILL REMEMBER HIS SOARING HEIGHT, HIS HUMILITY, GENTLENESS AND SERVANT LEADERSHIP STYLE, HIS LOVE AND COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION, HIS LOVE OF HISTORY, AND DON´T FORGET TO VISIT THE LIBRARY WHICH BEARS HIS NAME.

READ.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S PARENTS, RUTH ANN ELIZA AND JOHN WESLEY TURNBULL CAME FROM ST. THOMAS SPARKED DURING THE PHYSICAL TIME OF EARLY MIGRATION IN THE STORY.

RUTH ANN AND JOHN WESLEY TURNBULL WERE IN LOVE AND GOT MARRIED.

THEY BECAME THE PARENTS OF FIVE CHILDREN.

THE FIRST OF THEIR THREE SONS, CHARLES WESLEY, WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 5th, 1935.

AFTER HIM CAME DONALD VERNAL AND THEN THE TWO GIRLS, MAVIS AND DORIS.

IN JULY 2021, THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAID GOODBYE TO DONNA.

TODAY, AUGUST 2022, WE ARE DOING THE SAME FOR THE OLDEST CHILD, CHARLES WESLEY.

ANOTHER MATTER OF NOTE IS THAT THE TURNBULLS GAVE THEIR FIRST CHILD CREDIBLE METHODIST NAMES, CHARLES AND WESLEY, TWO NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE FOUNDERS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.

HOWEVER, DURING THE ENTRY OF LEONARD -- OF CHARLES TO LEONARD DOBER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE LAST NAME TURNBULL WAS NEW HERE AND SOUNDED STRANGE TO THE OTHER STUDENTS.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL REMEMBERED BEING MOCKED, TEASED AND LAUGHED AT WITH THE STRANGE-SOUNDING NAME TURNBULL.

MR. JAMES ANTONIO JARVIS WAS ONE OF THE SEASONED EDUCATORS WHO INSPIRED YOUNG CHARLES TURNBULL WITH HIS VISIONARY PERCEPTION OF A FUTURE IN EDUCATION AND ACADEMIA.

AT THAT TIME THERE WERE DREAMS FOR CHANGES IN THE SOCIETY, A BROADENING OF EDUCATION.

MORE GROWTH WAS TAKING PLACE IN BLACK LEADERSHIP AND THERE WAS HEIGHTENED PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL POLITICAL DECISIONMAKING.

IN TIME CHARLES SOUGHT AFTER AND EARNED HIS BACHELORS, THEN MASTERS DEGREE AT THOMPSON UNIVERSITY.

BY 1976 HE ACQUIRED HIS Ph.D. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.

WHILE CHARLES KEPT ON WADING DEEPER INTO EDUCATION, HE WAS ALSO CURIOUS ABOUT THE EVOLVING POLITICS ON THE ISLAND.

SO THROUGH THE YEARS, EVEN WHILE WORKING IN EDUCATION, HE GAINED A HIGH INTEREST IN POLITICS.

DURING 1963 CHARLES SIGNED UP WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND WAS GIVEN THE REGISTRATION NUMBER 11.

THAT WAS SOMETHING HE WAS VERY PROUD OF.

DR. TURNBULL NEVER CEASED TO TALK ABOUT AND SHARE WITH OTHERS THAT HE WAS AN EARLY SOLDIER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ARMED WITH THE REGISTRATION NUMBER 11.

HOWEVER, DESPITE HIS EXCITEMENT AND INTEREST IN BEING PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, DR. TURNBULL SPENT MORE THAN 40 YEARS ENGAGED AS AN EDUCATOR, GROWING HIS ACADEMIC SKILLS, LEADING IN EDUCATION AND LECTURING IN HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY.

THERE IS NO DOUBT TODAY THAT OVER TIME DR. TURNBULL MADE HUGE CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.

HE ALSO HELPED STABILIZE THE SYSTEM, ADDING IDEAS WHICH IN TIME BROUGHT SOME USEFUL INNOVATION TO EDUCATION HERE.

CHARLES TURNBULL TAUGHT IN BOTH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ON ST. THOMAS.

THEN HE SERVED IN THE CAPACITY OF ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPAL AT CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL.

LATER HE SERVED AS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

HE WAS ALSO A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT UVI AND FOUNDED A HISTORY AWARD THERE ALSO.

EVEN NOW THERE ARE SOME SUCCESSFUL HISTORIANS HERE AND BEYOND THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS WHO CONTINUE TO SING THE PRAISES OF DR. CHARLES TURNBULL, THE FORMER HISTORY PROFESSOR.

THROUGH THE YEARS AS A RESULT OF HIS WILLINGNESS TO SERVE VOLUNTARILY, TO BECOME ENGAGED IN MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION AND WITH PLANNING GROUPS, DR. TURNBULL WAS ACTIVELY RECRUITED AND INVOLVED IN SOME SOME 30-PLUS DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS.

THEY INCLUDED BEING PRESIDENT OF 1958 GRADUATING CLASS OF HAMPTON UNIVERSITY.

HAVING A LIFELONG INVOLVEMENT HERE AT THE CHRISTCHURCH METHODIST CHURCH.

THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN HISTORIANS.

THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WHICH HE FORMED.

THE ST. THOMAS/ST.

JOHN FRIENDS OF DENMARK.

AND THE DR. CHARLES W. TURNBULL HISTORY AWARD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

ALSO, BECAUSE OF HIS COMMUNITY SERVICE, COMMITTED LEADERSHIP AND HUMANITARIANISM, HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE ISLANDS, GOVERNOR TURNBULL RECEIVED MORE THAN 50 CONGRATULATORY AWARDS AND TOKENS OF RECOGNITION.

AMONG THEM WERE -- THE VIRGIN ISLANDS MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED BY THE 29th LEGISLATURE IN 2011.

AN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE IN HUMAN LESSON IN 2015, AWARDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

THE TRUMPET AWARD GIVEN BY TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM.

THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, AWARDED BY THE VIRGIN ISLANDS BOARD OF EDUCATION.

AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, AWARDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

BY 1990 DR. TURNBULL HAD EXPERIENCED A VERY SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY IN EDUCATION.

POLITICS WAS STILL ON HIS MIND.

WHILE OTHERS HESITATED, DR. TURNBULL FOUND THE CONFIDENCE, STEPPED OUT IN FRONT, DECLARED HIS INTENT AND MADE A BOLD, RISKY LEAP INTO U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS POLITICS.

HE CHALLENGED THE THEN-SITTING GOVERNOR, DR. ROY L. SNYDER, FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF THESE ISLANDS.

BACK THEN DR. TURNBULL WAS ASPIRING TO BECOME THE SIXTH ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.

MANY CITIZENS CONTINUE TO REFLECT ON AND TO CONTEMPLATE THE REASONS FOR GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S SUCCESS.

HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL LEADER.

HE DEPENDED ON HIS MANAGEMENT, AND OTHER CONCLUSIONS INCLUDE HIS SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION, HIS HUMILITY, NOT ARROGANCE AS A HUMAN BEING, AND HIS MODELLING OF RESPECT FOR ALL PEOPLE.

A VERY CLEAR SENSE OF HOW POLITICS SHOULD WORK FOR THE PEOPLE WAS DEMONSTRATED BY DR. TURNBULL.

EACH OF US HERE TODAY WILL REMEMBER THAT HE WAS ALSO ENSURING THAT THERE WAS COMPETENCE AND COMPETENT AND EFFECTIVE ASSISTANTS TO WORK WITH HIM.

AND HIS UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE OF BEING A CARIBBEAN MAN WAS THERE.

NO, THE GOVERNOR WAS NOT A PERFECT HUMAN BEING.

EVERY MOMENT OF THAT JOURNEY THROUGH THOSE EIGHT YEARS AS GOVERNOR WAS NOT SMOOTH.

HE DID HAVE TIMES OF STRESS AND DISAGREEMENT, BUT FEW PEOPLE SAW THEM.

DURING THOSE TIMES WHEN CHALLENGES CAME HIS WAY, GOVERNOR TURNBULL USUALLY BECAME QUIET, HELD HIS FOREHEAD WITH BOTH HANDS, SOUGHT SOME DOWN TIME AND ALSO SOME ADVICE IF IT WAS AVAILABLE.

HE DID NOT MIND GETTING OTHER OPINIONS WHEN HE HAD TO MAKE DIFFICULT DECISIONS, AND, YES, HE DID MAKE SOME.

AFTER HIS SECOND TERM AS GOVERNOR ENDED, GOVERNOR TURNBULL DRIFTED BACK INTO THE QUIETNESS AND LIFESTYLE OF THE COMMON MAN, A TRAIT HE WAS NOT EMBARRASSED TO DISPLAY.

HE ENJOYED WATCHING NEWS ON TELEVISION, BUT HAD A SPECIAL LOVE FOR THE GAME SHOW "LET´S MAKE A DEAL" ON CBS.

HE READ, COLLECTED BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, FUNERAL BOOKLETS, AND AT TIMES GUARDED ANTIQUES AND CULTURAL TRINKETS.

HE WAS A MAN WHO ENJOYED GOOD HUMOR.

THE GOVERNOR OFTEN EXCHANGED FUNNY ANECDOTES WITH FRIENDS.

WHEN HE HEARD A PARTICULARLY HILARIOUS STORY, HIS CORRESPONDING LAUGH WAS CAREFREE, LONG AND LOUD.

BUT THERE WAS ONE DIMENSION OF EVERYDAY LIFE THAT DR. TURNBULL WAS NOT CAREFREE ABOUT.

HE BELIEVED THAT PEOPLE NEEDED TO BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR FINANCES AND HE OFTEN DEMONSTRATED THAT BELIEF BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED AT WALGREENS ON THE FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

HE WAS NOT VERY EXCITED ABOUT STRENUOUS EXERCISES, ALTHOUGH HE PROMISED THE GOVERNOR NEVER FOLLOWED UP ON THE INVITATIONS TO GO WALKING REGULARLY.

NEITHER DID HE KEEP HIS PROMISE TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE COMPUTER.

HE ENJOYED WRITING EVERYTHING DOWN BY HAND AND WAS COOL WITH HAVING SOMEONE ELSE TRANSFER HIS WRITINGS TO THE COMPUTER.

THE GOVERNOR WAS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS LAID BACK AND OLD SCHOOL.

THE GOVERNOR DID NOT MANAGE TO TURN THE FINAL DOCUMENT OVER TO HAVE IT TRANSFERRED TO THE COMPUTER OR TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED, BUT HE WAS WORKING TOWARDS COMPLETING AND PUBLISHING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

OVER THE YEARS HE WROTE AND PUBLISHED SOME MATERIAL, LARGELY HISTORICAL PAPERS, AND WORKED CLOSELY WITH DR. MARILYN KRIEGER ON DOCUMENTING A HISTORY OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WHILE HE ENJOYED HISTORY, POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS AND TRAVEL, GOVERNOR TURNBULL ALSO LOVED HIS CHURCH DEEPLY.

HE REMAINED FAITHFUL, COMMITTED TO ITS TEACHINGS AND ATTENDED REGULARLY.

WHEN GOVERNOR TURNBULL´S BROTHER DONALD PASSED, THE EXPERIENCE WAS A SEVERE BLOW TO HIM.

IT AFFECTED HIM.

WHILE WE WORKED AT PUTTING THE FUNERAL PROGRAM TOGETHER, GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS OFTEN STRESSED AND SAD.

HE ALSO SEEMED TO HAVE LOST THE USUAL SENSE OF JOY.

HIS QUICK, RADIANT SMILE, AND THAT SMILE DID NOT COME READILY ANYMORE.

LATE LAST YEAR GOVERNOR TURNBULL TRAVELED TO THE USA TO VISIT FAMILY.

HE DID NOT MAKE IT BACK ALIVE.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL BREATHED HIS LAST BREATH AND SAID GOODBYE TO LIFE IN THE USA ON AUGUST 3rd, 2022.

ON JULY 3rd, 2022.

SORRY.

NOW, IN A MATTER OF HOURS HIS BODY WILL BE LAID TO REST IN A TOMB.

GOD, NOT MAN, WILL MAKE THE DECISION ABOUT THE GOVERNOR´S FUTURE BEYOND THIS LIFE.

FOR NOW, HE WILL REST IN HIS TOMB.

HOWEVER, WHILE HE LIVED THE LATE GOVERNOR TURNBULL LEFT MARKERS WHICH WE WHO REMAIN ALIVE CAN STILL SEE, APPRECIATE, GROW AND BENEFIT FROM.

AS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SAID, THE LIVES OF GREAT MEN REMIND US, WE TOO CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME AND DEPARTING LEAVE BEHIND US FOOTPRINTS ON THE SAND OF TIME.

GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL LEFT SOME CLEAR, VIVID FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF HIS TIME IN THESE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

EACH OF US HERE TODAY IS CHALLENGED TO NOTE AND APPRECIATE THE LEGACY HE LEFT US.

WE CAN EMULATE HIS DILIGENCE, HIS SENSE OF INTEGRITY, HUMAN EMPATHY.

AS GOVERNOR TURNBULL DID, WE TOO CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO FIND TIME AND REACH UP TO GOD.

WE CAN ALSO REACH OUT TO OUR FELLOW MEN AND TOUCH THEIR LIVES WITH LOVE, RESPECT AND HUMILITY.

RECENTLY I DISCOVERED A MESSAGE WITH PROFOUND MEANING WRITTEN BY THE FORMER COMMISSION AS HE REFLECTED ON THE LIFE AND PERSON OF THE LATE GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

I CONCUR FULLY WITH COMMISSIONER RUDNICK.

HE WROTE, IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE I WILL NEVER FORGET.

HE WAS A MAN I WILL ALWAYS RESPECT, A MAN OF LOYALTY, HONESTY, TRUSTWORTHINESS, INTELLIGENCE AND COMPASSION.

IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE BEST GOVERNORS THIS VIRGIN ISLANDS EVER HAD.

TO MY FRIEND, I SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW AND REST IN PEACE AFTER A JOB WELL DONE.

>> THANK YOU, MR. WHITMAN, FOR THAT COMPREHENSIVE REFLECTION OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

WE WILL NOW HAVE SOME TRIBUTES.

MR. BARBARA CLAY WILL BEGIN THE TRIBUTES.

>> GOOD MORNING.

MY NAME IS BARBARA MURRAIN CLAY, AND I AM THE FIRST-BORN NIECE OF FORMER GOVERNOR DR. CHARLES W. TURNBULL.

I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

FIRST, MY LORD AND MY SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, AND TO THE UNDERSHEPHERD OF THIS HOUSE, BISHOP CHARLES SETON.

I WANT TO GIVE HONOR TO THE DIGNITARIES AND THE GOVERNOR´S OFFICE WHO SUPPORTED OUR FAMILY AS WE GRIEVED THE LOSS OF OUR PATRIARCH OF OUR FAMILY.

I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE MANY FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF MY UNCLE AS HE TRAVERSED THROUGH THE DIFFERENT STATIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE ON HIS JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE.

HE LOVED THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND IT WAS EVIDENT IN HIS LOVE FOR HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS RELATED TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

SOME CALLED HIM DR. CHARLES TURNBULL, OTHERS CALLED HIM BOSS, GOV, DOC, WHILE MANY CALLED HIM GOVERNOR TURNBULL, BUT HIS FAMILY, WE JUST CALLED HIM WESLEY AND UNCLE WESLEY.

HE WAS A FAMILY MAN AND HE TOUCHED US ALL.

HIS LOVE FOR TEACHING IMPACTED ME AS I BECAME AN EDUCATOR AS WELL.

THROUGHOUT OUR FAMILY GENERATIONS, HE ATTENDED ALL OF THE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS SUCH AS GRADUATIONS, WEDDINGS, HOLIDAY GATHERINGS.

OUR FAMILY SAW FIRSTHAND HIM BEING A LIFELONG EDUCATORS, AND HIS SIBLINGS OFTEN SHARED WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN HE WOULD PREFER TO READ CLASSIC BOOKS WHILE THEY READ COMIC BOOKS.

AT MANY FAMILY GATHERINGS HE COULD ALWAYS CONNECT A DATE TO SOMETHING HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT, WHICH LED INTO THE MANY, MANY IMPROMPTU HISTORY LESSONS.

MY UNCLE, YES, WAS A GENTLE GIANT WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR, BUT WE KNEW THAT HE MEANT BUSINESS WHEN HE CLASPED THOSE LARGE FINGERS TOGETHER AND PLACED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE, AND WE WILL REMEMBER WHEN HE GOT EXCITED HE WOULD MOVE HIS INDEX FINGER BACK AND FORTH AS HE SPOKE.

WE ALL WILL MISS HIS HEARTY LAUGHTER AND THOSE MEMORABLE QUOTES HE WOULD SHARE, BUT I LEAVE YOU BY SAYING THAT WHEN I SAW HIM IN MAY I ASKED, UNCLE WESLEY, WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HYMN, AND HE IMMEDIATELY STARTED TO SING, WHICH WAS ONE OF HIS, "THROUGH ALL THE CHANGING SCENES OF LIFE."

HOW I LOOK BACK AT THOSE WORDS.

O MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME.

WITH ME EXALT HIS NAME.

WHEN IN DISTRESS TO HIM I CALLED, HIM TO MY RESCUE CAME.

I FIND COMFORT IN THOSE WORDS.

MY UNCLE, HE IS A LEGEND AND HE LOVED THESE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

I CAN HEAR HIM SING TILL NOW.

THIS IS A CELEBRATION.

THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU, MS. CLAY.

THE NEXT TRIBUTE WILL BE BY MR. DANIEL WELLS.

>> GOOD MORNING.

I WOULD LIKE TO READ A POEM BY LINDA ELLIS CALLED "THE DASH."

BEFORE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO READ SOME WORDS OF WHAT MY UNCLE, DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, MEANT TO ME.

TO MANY MY UNCLE WAS A GOVERNOR, AN EDUCATOR, A PRINCIPAL, A COMMISSIONER, A HISTORIAN, A SCHOLAR, AN INTELLECTUAL, A TRAVELER, A COLLECTOR, A POWERFUL VOICE OF REASON AND, OF COURSE, A GIANT.

TO ME, HE´S ALL OF THOSE THINGS, BUT ABOVE THEM ALL HE IS MY BELOVED UNCLE.

MY EARLIEST MEMORIES OF MY UNCLE WESLEY GO BACK TO MY INFANCY WHEN I BELIEVED HE WAS ACTUALLY SANTA CLAUS.

HE SPENT MANY CHRISTMASES WITH US AND IN A WAY HE WAS SANTA CLAUS, ALWAYS GIVING RARE AND THOUGHTFUL GIFTS FROM WHERE HE TRAVELED, ALWAYS FILLING THE ROOM WITH HIS JOVIAL AND DISTINCTIVE LAUGH.

OF COURSE, HE GAVE PHYSICAL GIFTS SELFLESSLY BUT MORE IMPACTFUL WERE THE GIFTS OF KNOWLEDGE HE SHARED WITH EVERYBODY HE ENCOUNTERED.

HE WAS ALWAYS TEACHING AND ALWAYS SERVING OTHERS.

HE WILL REMAIN A STRONG INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE, AND HE CONTINUES TO INSPIRE ME TO REACH THE HIGHEST HEIGHTS ALONG MY JOURNEY, ALONG MY DASH, JUST AS HE DID ALONG HIS.

AS HE RESTS NOW AFTER A PURPOSEFUL LIFE OF ACHIEVING, LEADING, GIVING AND SERVING, HIS CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE TO PERSIST AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF SO MANY, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.

I WILL ALWAYS BE PROUD TO SAY HE IS MY UNCLE.

IN MY EYES, MY UNCLE HAS ALWAYS BEEN LARGER THAN LIFE AND HE WILL REMAIN THAT WAY FOR ETERNITY.

I´M GOING TO NOW READ "THE DASH" BY LINDA ELLIS, WHICH EXEMPLIFIES EXACTLY HOW MY UNCLE LIVED HIS LIFE EVERY DAY.

I READ OF A MAN WHO STOOD TO SPEAK AT A FUNERAL OF A FRIEND.

HE REFERENCED TO THE DATE -- HE REFERS TO THE DATES ON THE TOMBSTONE FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END.

HE NOTED THAT FIRST CAME THE DATE OF BIRTH AND SPOKE OF THE FOLLOWING DATE WITH TEARS, BUT HE SAID WHAT MATTERED MOST OF ALL WAS THE DASH BETWEEN THOSE YEARS.

FOR THAT DASH REPRESENTS ALL THE TIME THEY SPENT ALIVE ON EARTH, AND NOW ONLY THOSE WHO LOVE THEM KNOW WHAT THAT LITTLE LINE IS WORTH.

FOR IT MATTERS NOT HOW MUCH WE OWN, THE CARS, THE HOUSE, THE CASH.

WHAT MATTERS IS HOW WE LIVE AND LOVE AND HOW WE SPEND OUR DASH.

SO THINK ABOUT THIS LONG AND HARD.

ARE THERE THINGS YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE?

FOR YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT THAT CAN STILL BE REARRANGED.

TO BE LESS QUICK TO ANGER AND SHOW APPRECIATION MORE AND LOVE THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES LIKE WE´VE NEVER LOVED BEFORE.

IF WE TREAT EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT AND MORE OFTEN WEAR A SMILE, REMEMBERING THAT THIS SPECIAL DASH MIGHT ONLY LAST A LITTLE WHILE.

SO WHEN YOUR EULOGY IS BEING READ WITH YOUR LIFE´S ACTIONS TO REHASH, WOULD YOU BE PROUD OF THE THINGS THEY SAY ABOUT HOW YOU LIVED YOUR DASH?

THANK YOU.

>> AT THIS TIME WE CONTINUE WITH OUR TRIBUTES.

THE HONORABLE TREGENZA ROACH, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> GOOD MORNING.

FIRST, TO THE HONORABLE ALBERT BRYAN, GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND FIRST LADY YOLANDA BRYAN, TO OUR NEIGHBORS, THE HONORABLE DR. WHEATLEY AND TO HIS DELEGATION FROM THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE HERE PRESENT FROM THE 34th LEGISLATURE, TO OUR DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, STACEY PLASKETT, TO BISHOP SETON AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY, MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY, FORMER GOVERNOR JOHN P. DEYOUNG, SENATORS WHO PRESENT WHO SERVED IN OUR LEGISLATURES PREVIOUSLY, THE FAMILY FOR BELOVED FORMER GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, THE CHURCH, THE GREATER VIRGIN ISLANDS COMMUNITY, GOOD MORNING.

FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF OUR BELOVED GOVERNOR, DR. CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, TO THANK YOU FOR SHARING HIM WITH THIS VIRGIN ISLANDS.

WE ARE INDEBTED TO YOU AS WE ARE INDEBTED TO HIM FOR HIS LIFE OF SERVICE TO THE TERRITORY.

IN THE REQUIRED READINGS THAT I HAVE HAD SOMEWHERE IN HIGH SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY, A BOOK STANDS OUT, "CRY OF THE BELOVED COUNTRY."

AND IT IS A BOOK THAT SPEAKS ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA PRECEDING APARTHEID.

THIS CHARACTER IN THE BOOK, HIS SON IS KILLED, AND WHEN HES TO BURY HIM HE FINDS HIS WRITINGS.

ONE OF THE WRITINGS -- IN ONE OF THEM, THE SON SPEAKS OF A WAY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE, IN AN EXPLANATION OF WHY HE LEFT HIS COMFORTABLE LIFE TO WORK WITH BLACK YOUTH IN JOHANNESBURG.

THERE´S THIS ONE LINE THAT HAS ALWAYS RESONATED WITH ME, AND IT IS, "WHEN A MAN DIES IT IS NOT SO MUCH THE MEMORIAL THAT HE RECEIVES AS THE MEMORIAL THAT HE SHALL DESERVE."

THE MEMORIAL THAT HE SHALL DESERVE.

IN PUBLIC LIFE THIS IS CRITICAL BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL TAKE THE MEMORIAL, WELL, HE WAS THE COMMISSIONER OF MY DAUGHTER VICKIE´S SCHOOL AND HE WAS THE GOVERNOR WHEN I LOST MY JOB, AND THAT WILL BE THE MEMORIAL THAT THEY WILL HAVE.

THE LEGACY OF A PERSON FOR THAT ONE PERSON WILL BE SUMMED UP IN A MEMORY SUCH AS THAT.

THOSE OF US WHO HAVE SPOKEN TODAY AND OTHERS WHO HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE HAVE TRIED TO DISTILL FROM THE LIFE OF THIS BRILLIANT, COMPASSIONATE, HUMBLE PUBLIC SERVANT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WHAT WE WILL TAKE FROM HIS LIFE, WHAT WE WILL KEEP AND WHAT WE WILL CARRY.

SO I´M FORCED AS WELL TO THINK ABOUT DR. TURNBULL AND WHAT I WILL CARRY OF HIS LIFE.

IN DECIDING THAT, I REFLECT ON WHEN WE FIRST MET, WHEN I FIRST MET HIM.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 1952 OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, AND SO HIS 25th REUNION WAS OUR CLASS, THE CLASS OF 1977.

I APPLIED FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP THAT WAS GIVEN BY HIS CLASS, AND I REMEMBER THE QUESTIONS THAT HE POSED TO ME BECAUSE HE WAS A STERLING EDUCATOR.

I THINK WHAT DR. TURNBULL ENDEAVORED TO DO WAS TO REMIND US OF THE VALUE OF EDUCATION, IN EDUCATING THE MIND, THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT OF THE PERSON FOR PEOPLE WHOSE FORBEARS, WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE FORBIDDEN READING AND WRITING.

WHEN I THINK OF MY OWN GRANDMOTHER, BORN IN 1897, AND HER MOTHER BORN SOMEWHERE IN THE 1860s, JUST A GENERATION AFTER THE EMANCIPATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN THE BRITISH TERRITORIES, THEY WERE FORBIDDEN FROM READING AND WRITING.

THAT´S WHAT I BELIEVE THAT I WANT TO TAKE FROM HIM AS A MEMBER OF THAT CLASS OF EDUCATORS, INCLUDING PERSONS LIKE DR. CRAIGOR, SOME OF THE LAST REMAINING ONES WHO BELIEVED THAT AN EDUCATION DIDN´T JUST MEAN THAT YOU GOT A BETTER JOB OR BETTER SALARY, BUT AN EDUCATION WHICH MADE YOU A BETTER HUMAN BEING.

THAT´S WHAT HE SHOWED TO US.

AND IN HIS TEACHING AND IN HIS LEARNING, THAT WAS HIS MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY.

WHILE WE WOULD LAUD HIM FOR ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT HE CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING OUR LIVES IN THIS TERRITORY BETTER, I WILL CONTINUE TO BE INSPIRED BY HIS LOVE OF EDUCATION AND THE VALUE THAT HE PLACED ON IT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHOLE PERSON, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF US WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE DENIED THEIR VERY HUMANITY AND FORBIDDEN READING AND WRITING.

DR. TURNBULL, MAY YOU BE WELCOMED INTO PARADISE.

MAY YOU RECEIVE THE WELCOME THAT YOU DESERVE.

THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROACH.

AT THIS TIME I WILL ASK YOU TO STAND AS WE WELCOME THE NEXT SPEAKER.

THE GOVERNOR OF THESE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, HONORABLE ALBERT BRYAN JR. >> PLEASE BE SEATED.

GOOD MORNING, FIRST LADY, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROACH, DELEGATE PLASKETT, GOOD MORNING TO PREMIER WHEATLEY, GOOD MORNING SENATE PRESIDENT, OTHER SENATORS, MINISTERS.

GOOD MORNING, FORMER GOVERNOR JOHN DEYOUNG.

GOOD MORNING SENATORS AND OTHERS IN THE CHURCH.

GOOD MORNING.

I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A CELEBRATION.

YOU KNOW, I DIDN´T PLAN TO SPEAK TODAY.

I WAS SITTING THERE THINKING ABOUT WHAT I SHOULD SAY, AND I THOUGHT ABOUT MY MEMORY OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

MY MOST FONDEST MEMORY OF HIM IS WHEN HE CAME TO SENATOR GIDDENS´ MOM´S FUNERAL AND HE WASN´T GOVERNOR AT THAT TIME.

HE GOT A STANDING OVATION.

SO THE FIRST THING I WANT YOU TO DO TODAY IS TO CLAP FOR OUR DEAR GOVERNOR, CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

[ APPLAUSE ] >> THE THING ABOUT THIS REMARKABLE INDIVIDUAL WAS NOT AS A GOVERNOR BUT AS A PERSON, BECAUSE HE LED WITH HIS HUMANITY ALL THE TIME.

I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING WITH THE GOOD GOVERNOR SEVERAL TIMES, AND THE THING THAT I LOVED THE MOST ABOUT HIM, REMEMBER ABOUT HIM, HE WAS JUST A FUNNY GUY.

I NEVER REALIZED HOW FUNNY HE WAS.

WE WENT TO DINNER AND HE WAS PICKING ON PEOPLE AND MAKING ALL KINDS OF LITTLE REMARKS, AND I ENJOYED THIS IMMENSELY BECAUSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME MYSELF.

SO I REALLY LOVED BEING IN HIS COMPANY, AND I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT TODAY, YOU KNOW, I THINK HE PLANNED THIS, HIS FINAL ACT.

I MEAN THINK ABOUT THIS NOW.

I´M GOING TO TELL YOU SOME THINGS TODAY THAT´S GOING TO REALLY FREAK YOU OUT.

SO IT IS THE HEIGHT OF THE ELECTION SEASON AND WHEREVER CHARLES TURNBULL IS HE´S LAUGHING BECAUSE HE IS SAYING, OH, NOW, YOU CUSSING AND FIGHTING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, SAYING BAD THINGS ON THE RADIO, LOOK ALIVE.

HAVE TO CLAP AND SING AND PRAISE THE LORD TOGETHER.

HE´S REMINDING US THAT HERE IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS WE ARE ONE PEOPLE.

THAT´S HOW WE GOVERNED.

HE GOVERNED LIKE I´M GOING TO COME BACK DOWN -- YOU KNOW, AS GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, ANY GOVERNOR WILL TELL YOU KNOW MATTER WHO YOU FIRE THEY´RE CONNECTED SOMEHOW TO THE POLITICS AND TO YOU.

HOW YOU FIRE ME AUNT?

THAT´S YOUR AUNT?

IT IS ALWAYS CONNECTED.

SO WHEN YOU -- WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH ONE ANOTHER, THAT HUMANITY IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT.

HE TOLD ME THAT.

YOU SEE, YOU GUYS MADE ME THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, BUT CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL INDUCTED ME INTO THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF GOVERNORS.

I SAY FRATERNAL, BUT I DON´T KNOW, IT MIGHT TURN INTO A SORORITY SOON.

NOT SO QUICKLY.

BUT HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITY AS A LEADER OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE COMPASSION THAT YOU NEED WHEN DEALING WITH OUR PEOPLE.

AS HE LAYS THERE TODAY, HE´S SMILING SOMEWHERE SAYING, LOOK, OUR BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS PREMIER REMINDING US WE ARE ONE PEOPLE IN THIS GREATER VIRGIN ISLANDSS.

AS HE SAID, WHEN WE CRY, THEY CRY.

WHEN THEY CRY, WE CRY.

THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE TRIBULATIONS WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST YEARS, OUR PEOPLE IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WANT A LEADER AND WE ARE MAKING SURE WE BUILD ON THAT.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL ESTABLISHED THAT LEGACY.

HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PERSON OF COMPASSION, BUT IN THIS, HIS FINAL ACT, IT WAS JUST SO EPIC.

I REMEMBER SITTING WITH HIM AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, ALL GOVERNORS HAVE A NUMBER.

I AM TURNBULL, THE SIXTH.

THERE´S JOHN, THE SEVENTH.

ARE YOU THE ALBERT, THE NINTH?

IT TURNS OUT I WAS.

GAVE ME THAT LECTURE ABOUT HOW TO GOVERN AND REMINDED ME THERE WAS ONLY NINE OF US IN THE HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ELECTED, AND WE OWED THE PEOPLE A GREAT SERVICE AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON A GREAT SERVICE.

HE WAS A KEEPER OF THAT FRATERNAL ORDER, AND IT IS A SAD DAY FOR ALL OF US AS GOVERNORS AS HE PASSES ON.

BUT HE´S REMINDING US ONCE AGAIN THAT WE HAVE A COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE AS HUMAN BEINGS FIRST AND THEN AS GOVERNORS SECOND.

HE ALSO REMINDED ME THAT NO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR HAS EVER SERVED ONE TERM, AND THEN HE CHIDED ME, DON´T MESS IT UP.

DON´T MESS IT UP.

BUT IN HIS FINAL COUP DE GRAS, BUT A REMINDER, HE DEPARTED ON JULY 3rd, EMANCIPATION DAY.

AS AN EDUCATOR, TELLING US, REMINDING US THAT WHILE WE ARE FREE TO LEARN AND GET EDUCATED AND DO STUFF, WE ARE FREE TO MOVE FROM ONE PLACE TO THE OTHER.

THERE´S STILL AN EMANCIPATION OF THE MIND FOR VIRGIN ISLANDERS THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE, FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE FROM OTHER PLACES ARE NOT BETTER THAN US, FOR US TO CONTINUALLY INVEST AND BELIEVE IN OUR LEADERS AND OUR FRIENDS AND OUR NEIGHBORS WHO COME INTO LEADERSHIP POSITION, FOR US TO REMEMBER THAT EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, EVERY HUMAN BEING AND THOSE THAT COME IN ARE DESERVING OF ALL OF THE RIGHTS OF ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL WANTED US TO KNOW THAT THERE´S MUCH WORK TO BE DONE, BUT THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT IS TO GET UP.

YOU SEE, HE DIDN´T HAVE THE EASIEST TENURE.

WHEN TURNBULL TOOK OFFICE THEY WERE PATCHING THE ROOFS, TAKING IT OFF THE TRUCK.

THEY DIDN´T HAVE MONEY TO BUY TAR.

HE HAD A BUDGET OF $550 MILLION AND WAS SHORT $150 MILLION.

I´M A GOVERNOR HISTORIAN.

I KNOW ALL OF THE FACTS.

BUT BY THE TIME HE HAD LEFT OFFICE HE HAD DOUBLED THE BUDGET.

DOUBLED THE BUDGET, PAID BACK PEOPLE THEIR TAXES, AND WAS MOVING THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FORWARD.

YOU SEE, IN THE FIRST ELECTION I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO WAY HE COULD WIN.

PROVED ME WRONG.

IN THE SECOND ELECTION I KNEW THERE WAS NO WAY HE COULD LOSE.

AS HE GOES DOWN AS THE UNLIKELY GOVERNOR, HE WILL FOREVER BE IN OUR HEARTS BECAUSE WE PUT EDUCATION FIRST, AND THE ONLY THING YOU PUT BEFORE THAT IS PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY HIS FAMILY.

GOD REST IN PEACE, GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

MAY THE LESSONS THAT YOU HAVE TAUGHT US IN THIS VIRGIN ISLANDS CONTINUE TO BLESS US FOR YEARS TO COME.

AMEN.

>> THANK YOU, GOVERNOR BRYAN.

WE WILL NOW COME TO THE FINAL TRIBUTE IN THE FORM OF A SONG.

A SPECIAL SELECTION BY MR. DARRELL LEWIS SR. >> GOOD MORNING.

TO THE FAMILY, ESPECIALLY MS. MAVIS THAT I KNOW, I BRING GREETINGS, CONDOLENCES FROM MY FAMILY, ESPECIALLY MY AUNT IN NEW YORK, ELSA GIBBS AT THAT TIME.

I HAVE HEARD HERE TODAY OF JUDGE HATCH READING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE CLASS.

ANY OF THEM HERE TODAY BESIDES JUDGE HATCH?

REALLY?

OKAY.

WELL, MY AUNT, ELSA DE GRAFF AT THAT TIME, THE CLASSMATE PROBABLY WENT FOUR YEARS.

ASTOR WENT 12 YEARS WITH HIM FROM KINDERGARTEN.

TO GO WITH SOMEONE FROM KINDERGARTEN TO 12th GRADE, HOW MUCH MORE COULD SHE TAKE?

ANYWAY, I DEDICATE THIS SONG HERE TO THE GOVERNOR, THE FORMER GOVERNOR, YOU KNOW.

SPEAKING TO YOU FROM THE BACK CAT WALK.

ALL RIGHT.

I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO THE FORMER GOVERNOR, CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

♫♫ ♫ AND NOW THE TIME HAS COME THAT WE MUST SAY FAREWELL TO WESLEY ♫ ♫ MY FRIEND, I´LL SAY IT CLEAR ♫ ♫ I´LL STATE MY CASE OF WHICH I´M CERTAIN ♫ ♫ HE LIVED A LIFE THAT´S FULL ♫ ♫ HE´S TRAVELLED EACH AND EVERY HIGHWAY ♫ ♫ AND MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS ♫ ♫ CHARLES DID IT HIS WAY ♫ ♫REGRETS ♫ ♫ HE´S HAD A FEW ♫ ♫ BUT THEN AGAIN TOO FEW TO MENTION ♫ ♫ HE DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO AND SAW IT THROUGH WITHOUT EXEMPTION ♫ ♫ HE PLANNED EACH CHARTED COURSE ♫ ♫ EACH CAREFUL STEP ALONG THE BYWAY ♫ ♫ AND MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS WHEN HE DID IT HIS WAY ♫ ♫ YES, THERE WERE TIMES I´M SURE HE KNEW WHEN HE BIT OFF MORE THAN HE COULD CHEW ♫ ♫ BUT THROUGH IT ALL, WHEN THERE WAS DOUBT ♫ ♫ HE ATE IT UP BUT HE NEVER SPIT IT OUT ♫ ♫ HE FACED IT ALL AND HE STOOD TALL AND DID IT HIS WAY ♫ ♫ HE´D LOVE ♫ ♫ HE´D LAUGH AND CRY ♫ ♫ HE HAD HIS FILL, HIS SHARE OF LOSING ♫ ♫ BUT NOW AT THIS TIME WE FIND IT ALL SO AMUSING ♫ ♫ YOU´D THINK CHARLES DID ALL THAT ♫ ♫ AND MAY I SAY NOT IN A SHY WAY ♫ ♫ OH, NO ♫ ♫ OH, NO, NOT CHARLES ♫ ♫ HE DID IT HIS WAY ♫ ♫ FOR WHAT IS A MAN, WHAT HAS HE GOT ♫ ♫ IF NOT HIMSELF THEN HE HAS NAUGHT ♫ ♫ NOT TO SAY THE THINGS THAT HE TRULY FEELS ♫ ♫ AND NOT THE WORDS OF ONE WHO KNEELS ♫ ♫ THE RECORD SHOWS CHARLES TOOK THE BLOWS ♫ ♫ AND DID IT HIS WAY ♫ WHEW!

♫♫ ♫ AND MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS ♫ ♫ YES, IT WAS WESLEY´S WAY ♫ GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

THANK YOU.

>> WITH ALL THE TRIBUTES PRESENTED, WE INDEED HAVE RECEIVED MUCH FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

IF WE CAN TAKE AWAY EVEN ONE THING FROM ALL THAT WAS SAID, THEN EACH ONE OF US WILL BE ABLE TO SAY IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE BEEN HERE.

WE CONTINUE NOW WITH THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD.

MRS. JUEL MALLOY WILL PRESENT A SCRIPTURE, 44:1-50.

>> GOOD MORNING.

AFTER ALL OF THAT, THE MINISTRY OF THE WORLD, AND TO READ THE MINISTRY, THIS SCRIPTURE, BELIEVE THIS PART OF THE SCRIPTURE AS WRITTEN JUST FOR MY COUSIN.

ECCLESIASTES 44:1-15.

LET US NOW SING THE PRAISES OF FAMOUS MEN, OUR ANCESTORS IN THEIR GENERATION.

THE LORD APPORTIONED TO THEM GREAT GLORY, HIS MAGESTERY FROM THE BEGINNING.

THOSE WHO GAVE COUNSEL BECAUSE THEY WERE INTELLIGENT.

THOSE WHO SPOKE IN PROPHETIC ORACLES.

THOSE WHO LED THE PEOPLE BY THEIR COUNCIL AND BY THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE´S LAW.

THERE WERE THOSE WHO WERE WISE IN THEIR WISDOM, IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION, THOSE WHO COMPOSED MUSICAL TUNES OR PUT VERSES IN WRITING.

RICH MEN, ENDOWED WITH RESOURCES LIVING PEACEFULLY IN THEIR HOMES.

ALL OF THESE WERE HONORED IN THEIR GENERATIONS AND WERE THE PRIDE OF THEIR TIMES.

SOME OF THEM HAVE LEFT BEHIND A NAME SO THAT OTHERS DECLARE THEIR PRAISE, BUT OF OTHERS THERE IS NO MEMORY.

THEY HAVE PERISHED AS THOUGH THEY HAD NEVER EXISTED.

THEY HAVE BECOME AS THOUGH THEY HAD NEVER BEEN BORN.

THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM.

BUT THERE ARE ALSO THOSE WHO ARE MEN OF COMPASSION, WHOSE RIGHTEOUS DEEDS HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN.

THEIR WEALTH WILL REMAIN WITH THEIR DESCENDANTS AND THEIR INHERITANCE WITH THEIR CHILDREN´S CHILDREN.

THEIR DESCENDANTS STAND BY THE COVENANTS.

THEIR CHILDREN ALSO FOR THEIR SAKE.

THEIR OFFSPRING WILL CONTINUE FOREVER AND THEIR GLORY WILL NEVER BE BLACKENED OUT.

THEIR BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE, BUT THEIR NAMES LIVE ON GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.

THE ASSEMBLY DECLARES THEIR WISDOM AND THE CONGREGATION PROCLAIMS THEIR PRAISE.

THESE ARE THE WORDS OF GOD.

CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

THANK YOU.

>> OUR NEXT READING WILL BE DONE BY MRS. BERNICE A. TURNBULL.

>> GREETINGS IN THE WONDERFUL NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

THE EPISTLE READING COMES TO US THIS MORNING FROM PAUL´S LETTER TO -- THE FIRST LETTER TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH.

CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 15 VERSES 50 THROUGH 58.

BEGINNING THE READING.

WHAT I AM SAYING, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IS THIS.

THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, NOR THE PERISHABLE INHERIT THE IMPERISHABLE.

LISTEN, I WILL TELL YOU A MYSTERY.

WE WILL NOT ALL DIE BUT WE WILL ALSO BE CHANGED IN A MOMENT, IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE AT THE LAST TRUMPET.

FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SURROUND AND THE DEAD WILL RAISE IMPERISHABLE AND WE WILL BE CHANGED, FOR THIS PERISHABLE BODY MUST PUT ON IMPERISHABILITY AND THIS MORTAL´S BODY MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY.

WHEN THE PERISHABLE BODY PUTS ON IMPERISHABILITY AND THIS MORTAL BODY PUTS ON IMMORTALITY, THEN THE SAYING THAT IS WRITTEN WILL BE FULFILLED.

DEATH HAS BEEN SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY.

WHERE, O DEATH, IS YOUR VICTORY?

WHERE, O DEATH, IS YOUR STING?

THE STING OF DEATH IS SIN AND THE POWER OF SIN IS THE LAW, BUT THANKS BE TO GOD WHO GIVES THE VICTORY TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

THEREFORE, MY BELOVED, BE STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE, ALWAYS EXCELLING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT IN THE LORD YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN.

THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD.

>> THANKS BE TO GOD.

>> OUR GOSPEL READING COMES TO US FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN, CHAPTER 14, READING VERSES 1 TO 6 AND VERSE 27.

>> DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED.

BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.

IN MY FATHER´S HOUSE THERE ARE MANY DWELLING PLACES.

IF IT WERE NOT SO, WOULD I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU?

AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND WILL TAKE YOU TO MYSELF SO THAT WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.

AND YOU KNOW THE WAY TO THE PLACE WHERE I AM GOING.

THOMAS SAID TO HIM, LORD, WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, HOW CAN WE KNOW THE WAY?

JESUS SAID, I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.

PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU.

MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU.

I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES.

DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND DO NOT LET THEM BE AFRAID.

THIS IS THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

>> PRAISE BE TO CHRIST, OUR LORD.

>> WE WELCOME OUR JOINT CIRCUIT CHOIR AS THEY MINISTER NOW THE WORD IN SONG.

PLEASE BE SEATED.

♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ AMEN ♫ >> THANK YOU, CHOIR.

INDEED, YOU BLESSED OUR HEARTS TODAY, REMINDING US THAT EVEN IN THE MIDST OF OUR SORROWS AND CHALLENGES WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, CONTINUING TO ENCOURAGE US IN THIS MORTAL LIFE.

I WISH TO OFFER SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY OF OUR LATE DR. TURNBULL, TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, TO THOSE WHO ARE HIS SPECIAL AND CLOSE FRIENDS AND, IN FACT, TO ALL WHO MOURN.

MY COLLEAGUES IN MINISTRY PRESENTLY ON VACATION, REVEREND JOHN AND HELEN MALALOU TEXTED ME THIS MORNING AND ASKED ME TO OFFER THEIR CONDOLENCES AS WELL.

WE HERE AT THE CHRISTCHURCH METHODIST CHURCH WILL MISS HIM TREMENDOUSLY.

I CAN POINT EXACTLY WHERE HE SITS WHEN HE WAS ABLE TO COME.

EVER SO OFTEN WE WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE PLEASANTRIES AND LITTLE TIDBITS.

I MET HIM MANY, MANY YEARS AGO WHEN LEADER OF DISTRICT CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST CONFERENCE CHURCH WAS HOSTED AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND HE WAS THE GOVERNOR.

IMMEDIATELY I WAS IMPRESSED.

I DON´T KNOW WHAT IMPRESSED ME MOST, WHETHER IT WAS HIS NAME, WESLEY -- CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, OR THE FACT THAT I WAS SO IMPRESSED BY HIS SHEER HUMILITY.

NOT VERY OFTEN YOU COME INTO CONTACT WITH PEOPLE OF STATURE IN THE COMMUNITY AND FIND THEM SO VERY DOWN TO EARTH.

BUT I WAS IMPRESSED THEN MANY YEARS AGO AND I WAS MORE IMPRESSED AS I GOT TO KNOW HIM A LITTLE BETTER AS A MEMBER OF THIS CONGREGATION.

I WANT TO ASSURE YOU THOUGH THAT THOSE WHO ALSO LIVE FOR GOD ALSO DIE IN GOD.

WE PRAY HIS SOUL MAY REST IN PEACE AND THAT ALL OF YOU WHO ARE IN MOURNING MAY KNOW THE COMFORT AND STRENGTH THAT ONLY GOD CAN GIVE.

AMEN.

LET US PRAY.

ETERNAL GOD AND OUR FATHER, TODAY HAS BEEN A DAY OF CELEBRATION AND YET A MIXED DAY, A DAY OF MOURNING AND OF SORROW FOR ONE WHOM WE HAVE KNOWN, ONE WHOM YOU GAVE TO US AS A GIFT HAS BEEN TAKEN BACK TO YOURSELF, AND WE MOURN HIS LOSS.

YES, O GOD, WE PRAY EVEN AS WE REFLECT UPON HIS LIFE THAT WE MAY ALSO REFLECT UPON OUR LIVES, THAT THE MEANINGFUL LESSONS HE LEFT BEHIND WE ALSO MAY EMBRACE AND EMULATE.

AND IMPORTANTLY FOR ALL OF US, THAT WHEN OUR TIME COMES THAT WE WOULD LEAVE BEHIND FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME.

WE PRAY, O GOD, EVEN NOW THAT YOU MAY BLESS THE SPOKEN WORD TO OUR HEART AND GLORIFY YOUR NAME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

AMEN.

TODAY, MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IS A SPECIAL DAY INDEED FOR THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, THE MAINLAND AND, INDEED, THE METHODIST CHURCH OF THE ST. THOMAS AND JOHN CIRCUIT, AND FOR ALL WHO KNEW THE LATE GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

IT IS A SPECIAL DAY, NOT THAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT HAVING TO BID HIM FAREWELL OR TO SAY OUR LAST GOODBYES FOR THAT MATTER.

RATHER, THE TRIBUTES AND THE EULOGY, IN ADDITION TO THE NUMEROUS SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED, FORMAL AND INFORMAL, STAND AS A FITTING TESTIMONY TO A MAN WHO STOOD TALL -- NO PUN INTENDED -- IN THIS COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.

CERTAINLY, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE MUCH BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE LATE GOVERNOR WOULD BE CAREFUL IN YOUR OWN WAY IN A TIME TO COME ALONG THE MANY OUTSTANDING QUALITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SUCH A PROMINENT FIGURE AND CORRECTLY SO AS IS FITTING OF ANY CIVILIZED SOCIETY.

OUR TEXT FROM ONE OF THE EXTRA CANONICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, SURAC, OR ECCLESIATICAL, THIS IS A HYMN MEANT TO HONOR THE ANCESTORS OF ISRAEL.

THIS IS A EULOGY ABOUT HOW A DEVOUT YOU FELT ABOUT HIS OWN MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED IN THEIR TIME.

THE POET REFERRED TO TWO SETS OF PEOPLE, THOSE WHO WERE WELL-RENOWNED AND COUNTLESS OTHERS ABOUT WHOM LITTLE OR NOTHING WAS KNOWN EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THEY REPRESENTED AND SERVED THE NATION WELL.

FROM THE LONG LIST, A FEW ARE SINGLED OUT FOR SPECIAL MENTION, PERSONS SUCH AS ENOCH, NOAH, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB AND MOSES.

LIKE THE POEM MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF SIRAC, THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS, CHAPTER 11, WAS ALSO CAREFUL TO CATALOGUE WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS HEROES OF THE FAITH, MEN AND WOMEN WHO DIED AND RECEIVED THEIR REWARD FROM GOD.

IT WAS NOT BY MISTAKE THOUGH THAT THE WRITER ALSO MADE REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THE PROMISE, WHO WERE NOT EVEN MENTIONED, YET THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAITH HAD NOT GONE UNNOTICED BY GOD.

BECAUSE, YOU SEE, WITH GOD HIS PEOPLE ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN OR OVERLOOKED.

WHEN WE REFLECT ON THIS POEM, WE DO ACCEPT THAT WE TOO HAVE SOME THINGS IN COMMON WITH ANCIENT ISRAEL.

WE TOO AS A COMMUNITY HAVE SOUGHT TO ENSURE THAT BY AND LARGE HONOR IS GIVEN TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY.

IT IS A SIGNIFICANT GESTURE THAT HERE IN THIS TERRITORY EFFORTS ARE CONTINUING AT RECOGNIZING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE MADE STERLING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY BY HAVING IMPORTANT LANDMARKS NAMED AFTER THEM.

YET, AS IMPORTANT AS THIS IS, PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY IS THAT WE ALL SHOULD ASPIRE TO A FAR GREATER GLORY AND TO ENSURE THAT OUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB´S BOOK OF LIFE SO THAT WHEN WE DIE WE TOO ARE RECOGNIZED BY GOD, OUR MAKER AND OUR FATHER.

WE ASK OURSELVES, WHAT MAKES A PERSON GREAT.

IS IT WEALTH, STATUS, IF YOU LIKE, FAME, POWER?

BY EXTENSION, WHAT MAKES A COUNTRY GREAT?

SINCE OBVIOUSLY GREAT PEOPLE MAKE A GREAT COUNTRY.

WILLIAM RALPH EMERSON ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE WHEN HE SOUGHT TO EXPLORE A NATION´S STRENGTH IN THE POEM ENTITLED "A NATION´S STRENGTH."

IN THE CLOSING STANZA OF THE POEM HE WROTE, NOT GOLD, BUT ONLY MEN WHO CAN MAKE A PEOPLE GREAT AND STRONG MEN WHO FOR TRUTH AND HONOR´S SAKE STAND FAST AND SUFFER LONG.

BRAVE MEN WHO WORK WHILE OTHERS SLEEP, THEY BUILD A NATION´S PILLARS DEEP AND LIFT THEM TO THE SKY.

IN AN AGE WHERE LINES ARE SOMEWHAT BLURRED BETWEEN WHAT COMPROMISES GREATNESS, THE BIBLE IS CERTAINLY NOT OBSCURE ON THIS MATTER.

I PARTICULARLY LIKE HOW THE PROPHET MICAH PUTS IT.

HE SAYS, DO JUSTICE, LOVE MERCY AND WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD.

MICAH 6:8.

AMOS RENDERS SOMEWHAT DIFFERENTLY THE SAME POINT WHEN HE SAID, LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE WATER AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE AN EVER-FLOWING STREAM.

AMOS 5:24.

TODAY IN THE FIELD OF BUSINESS AND OTHER ENDEAVORS THERE IS AN EVER-GROWING INTEREST IN A STUDY CALLED "EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE."

THAT BRANCH OF SCIENCE WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND BEING EMPATHETIC, ESPECIALLY IN BUSINESS DEALINGS, BUT A STUDY THAT IS APPLICABLE TO ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

IMAGINE WITH ME FOR A BRIEF MOMENT WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WE WOULD HAVE IF PERSONS WERE MINDED TO DISPLAY JUSTICE, MERCY AND LOVE INSTEAD OF BRUTE FORCE, HARSH DISPLAY OF POWER, VINDICTIVENESS, SPITE AND MALICE.

CERTAINLY THESE ARE NOT THE MARKS OF GREATNESS, RATHER GREATNESS IS REFLECTED IN THE NATURE OF OUR CREATOR.

BOB MALLEY OPINED, THE GREATNESS OF A MAN IS NOT IN HOW MUCH WEALTH HE ACQUIRES BUT IN HIS INTEGRITY AND ABILITY TO AFFECT THOSE AROUND HIM POSITIVELY.

ONE CANNOT HELP THOUGH BUT ADMIRE THE OLD TESTAMENT JOB WHO NOT ONLY ASSERTS BUT EMBRACES THE PRINCIPLE OF INTEGRITY.

IN ALL OF HIS LIFE HE WAS STEADFASTLY HOLDING ON TO INTEGRITY FOR HE KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF IT.

IN ALL OF HIS CHALLENGES HE AFFIRMED, TILL I DIE I WILL NOT PUT MY INTEGRITY AWAY FROM ME.

IN THE END HISTORY WILL JUDGE US ON THE CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER MORE THAN OUR ACHIEVEMENTS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY´RE DEEPER.

IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, OUR COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO CAN BE DEPENDED UPON TO STAND TALL, MEN AND WOMEN WHO CAN BE STRONG AND BE RESOLUTE IN THE FACE OF DIFFICULTY.

THIS IS PRECISE BY WHAT THE POET JOSIAH HOLLAND HAD TO SAY IN THE WONDERFUL PRAYER, "GOD GIVE US MEN."

HE WROTE, GOD GIVE US MEN.

A TIME LIKE THIS DEMANDS STRONG MINDS, GREAT HEARTS, TRUE FAITH AND READY HANDS.

MEN WHOM THE LOSS OF OFFICE DOES NOT KILL, MEN WHOM THE SPOILS OF OFFICE CANNOT BUY.

MEN WHO POSSESS OPINIONS AND THE WILL, MEN WHO HAVE HONOR, MEN WHO WILL NOT LIE, MEN WHO CAN STAND BEFORE A DEMAGOGUE AND DANGEROUS FLATTERIES WITHOUT WINKING, TALL MEN, SOME CROWNED MEN WHO LIVE ABOVE THE FOG IN PUBLIC DUTY AND IN PRIVATE THINKING.

FOR WHILE THE RABBLE WITH THEIR WORN CREED, THEIR LARGE PROFESSION AND THEIR DEEDS MINGLE IN SURFACE STRIVE, LO, FREEDOM WEEPS.

WRONG RULES THE LAND AND WAITING JUSTICE SLEEPS.

SO IN CLOSING, THE QUESTION WHICH EACH OF US MUST ASK OURSELVES, WHEN THE BELL TOLLS FOR US, WHAT KIND OF LEGACY WOULD WE LEAVE BEHIND?

WHAT WILL CONSUME US MOST AND WHAT WE LEFT AFTER OUR TROUBLED BONES ARE DUST?

I LIKE THE WAY THE SONGWRITER PUTS IT, AND WITH THAT I WILL CLOSE.

THE SONGWRITER WROTE ONLY WHAT IS DONE FOR CHRIST WILL LAST.

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AMEN.

LET US PRAY.

GRACIOUS GOD AND FATHER, AS YOUR WORD HAS GONE FORTH AND CANNOT RETURN TO YOU EMPTY, WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL ACCOMPLISH YOUR PURPOSE IN OUR LIVES AND, INDEED, O GOD, IT WILL BE A REMINDER TO US OF OUR PURPOSE HERE ON EARTH SO THAT WE MAY LEAVE BEHIND FOOTPRINTS THAT OTHERS WHO ARE COMING AFTER US WILL BE PLEASED TO WALK IN, TO EMULATE, TO MAKE OUR COUNTRIES BETTER AND, INDEED, OUR LIVES AS A FITTING TRIBUTE TO YOU AND FOR OTHERS.

AMEN.

>> AMEN.

>> KINDLY TURN WITH ME IN YOUR ORDER OF SERVICE ON PAGE 14.

I INVITE YOU TO STAND AS WE MAKE AN AFFIRMATION OF OUR FAITH IN THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE´S CREED.

I AM SORRY.

IN MY RUSH TO MOVE ON I HAVE OMITTED A HYMN.

AFTER THE HYMN WE WILL REMAIN SINGING.

AND CAN IT BE THAT I WOULD GAIN AN INTEREST IN THE SAVIOR´S BLOOD.

♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN AN INTEREST IN THE SAVIOR´S BLOOD ♫ ♫ DIED HE FOR ME, WHO CAUSED HIS PAIN ♫ ♫ FOR ME, WHO HIM TO DEATH PURSUED ♫ ♫ AMAZING LOVE!

HOW CAN IT BE ♫ ♫ THAT THOU, MY GOD, SHOULD DIE FOR ME ♫ ♫ AMAZING LOVE!

HOW CAN IT BE ♫ ♫ THAT THOU, MY GOD, SHOULD DIE FOR ME ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ >> AMEN.

AMEN INDEED.

AFTER SUCH A GREAT HYMN, WE WILL, OF COURSE, TAKE PRIDE IN AFFIRMING OUR FAITH IN THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLES CREED.

PAGE 14.

TOGETHER.

I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD, WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

HE SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE.

HE WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED.

HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD.

HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER.

HE WILL COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.

I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY AND LIFE EVERLASTING, AMEN.

KINDLY BE SEATED.

OUR PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING.

PRAISE BE TO YOU, O GOD, OUR FATHER, WHO CREATED US IN YOUR OWN IMAGE FOR ETERNAL FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU.

PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING TO YOU, O CHRIST, OUR LORD AND OUR GOD, WHO HAVE OVERCOME THE SHARPNESS OF DEATH AND OPENED THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN TO ALL BELIEVERS, AND ARE NOW SEATED AT THE RIGHT-HAND OF GOD IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER.

PRAISE AND BLESSING BE TO YOU, O HOLY SPIRIT, GOOD, OUR COMFORTER, WHO BEAR WITNESS WITHIN US OF OUR ACCEPTANCE WITH THE FATHER AND HAVE BECOME THE PLEDGE OF OUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE.

ALL PRAISE AND GLORY, BLESSING AND HONOR, THANKSGIVING AND WORSHIP BE TO YOU, O BLESSED TRINITY, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, ONE GOD, FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.

WE BLESS YOUR NAME, O GOD.

FOR HIM WHO WE LAY TODAY TO REST, WE GIVE YOU THANKS FOR THE JOY AND BLESSING THAT HIS LIFE HAS BROUGHT TO OTHERS, FOR HIS SERVICE AND HIS GENERATION ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL AND FOR EVERY HAPPY REMEMBRANCE OF HIS LIFE.

WE BLESS YOU FOR YOUR MERCY AND GOODNESS WHICH HAVE FOLLOWED HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE, THAT NOW THE TRIALS OF THIS WORLD ARE OVER AND DEATH ITSELF IS PASSED.

RECEIVE HIM INTO YOUR PERFECT KINGDOM AND BRING US WITH ALL WHO HAVE LIVED AND SERVED YOU FAITHFULLY TO THE FULLNESS OF YOUR ETERNAL JOY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, AMEN.

>> AMEN.

>> KINDLY STAND AGAIN AS WE HAVE OUR PRAYER OF COMMENDATION FOLLOWED BY THE LORD´S PRAYER.

LET US PRAY.

ETERNAL GOD, WHO HAVE MADE US ALL IN HERE TO NOTHING THAT YOU HAVE MADE AND HAVE GIVEN YOUR SON FOR OUR REDEMPTION, WE COMMEND OUR BROTHER, CHARLES WESLEY, TO YOUR PERFECT MERCY AND WISDOM.

ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD, AMEN.

WE WILL CHANT THE LORD´S PRAYER.

♫♫ >> OUR FATHER HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME.

BLESSED BE YOUR NAME.

THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER.

AMEN.

♫♫ >> AND NOW THE GOD OF PEACE WHO ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, BY THE BLOOD OF THE ETERNAL COVENANTS, MAKE YOU PERFECT IN EVERY GOODS THING TO DO HIS WILL, WORKING IN YOU THAT WHICH IS WELL PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO WHOM BE THE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.

AND NOW WE BRING THIS ASPECT OF THE SERVICE TO A CLOSE AS WE SING OR RECESSIONAL HYMN, "WE ARE MARCHING TO ZION."

♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ COME, YE THAT LOVE THE LORD ♫ ♫ AND LET YOUR JOYS BE KNOWN ♫ ♫ JOIN IN A SONG WITH SWEET ACCORD ♫ ♫ JOIN IN A SONG WITH SWEET ACCORD ♫ ♫ AND THUS SURROUND THE THRONE ♫ ♫ AND THUS SURROUND THE THRONE ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫ LET THOSE REFUSE TO SING ♫ ♫ WHO NEVER KNEW OUR GOD ♫ ♫ BUT CHILDREN OF THE HEAV´NLY KING ♫ ♫ BUT CHILDREN OF THE HEAV´NLY KING ♫ ♫ SHALL SPEAK THEIR JOYS ABROAD ♫ ♫ SHALL SPEAK THEIR JOYS ABROAD ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫ ♫ BUT CHILDREN OF THE HEAVEN KING ♫ ♫ SHALL SPEAK THEIR JOYS ABROAD ♫ ♫ SHALL SPEAK THEIR JOYS ABROAD ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫ THEN LET OUR SONGS ABOUND ♫ ♫ EV´RY TEAR BE DRY ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING THROUGH EMMANUEL´S GROUND ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING THROUGH EMMANUEL´S GROUND ♫ ♫ TO FAIRER WORLDS ON HIGH ♫ ♫ TO FAIRER WORLDS ON HIGH ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫ MAY SPEAK THEIR JOYS ABROAD ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING TO ZION ♫ ♫ BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL ZION ♫ ♫ WE´RE MARCHING UPWARD TO ZION ♫ ♫ THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD ♫ ♫♫ ♫♫ >> WHAT NAME!

WHAT NAME!

♫♫ ♫♫ >> YOU HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB WITH -- HISTORIAN GOT UP YEARS FROM NOW -- HELLO.

>> HELLO.

GOOD.

♫♫ ♫♫ >>> THE FUNERAL HAS CONCLUDED.

A LARGE NUMBER OF DIGNITARIES, THE FAMILY, WE ARE ALL HERE AT THE CHURCH IN MARKET SQUARE.

WE HAVE WITH US THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, THE NINTH AS CHARLES WOULD EMPHASIZE THE NUMBER.

THE NINTH ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> GOOD EVENING, JIMMY.

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

>> FINE, GOVERNOR.

I WANT TO TELL YOU STRAIGHT UP, YOUR REMARKS WERE MOST APPROPRIATE AND VERY INSPIRATIONAL.

>> THANK YOU.

THE GOVERNOR WAS A REAL INSPIRATION.

CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL GAME AT A TIME IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WHEN WE REALLY DIDN´T KNOW HOW WE WERE GOING TO MAKE IT, BUT HE WAS AN UNLIKELY CANDIDATE AND IT SHOWS ABOUT THE FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD BECAUSE HE BROUGHT A BLESSING TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> AS ONE WHO WAS THERE THE DAY THAT IT STARTED, I REMEMBER ALWAYS TELLING ME THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE GUIDED BY HISTORY AND HE ALWAYS SAID THAT REGARDLESS OF WHAT CRISIS CAME THAT HE WANTED TO BE -- HE WOULD HOLD THE LINE BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN HIMSELF, THAT HE HAD MADE A RIGHT DECISION AND THAT HISTORY WOULD VINDICATE HIM.

HOW DO YOU ADVANCE ON THAT THOUGHT?

>> WELL, LIKE I SHARED IN MY COMMENTS TODAY, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT GOVERNING WITH A PURE HEART, CHARLES TURNBULL CAME TO THE LEADERSHIP POSITION WITH NO SPECIFIC AGENDA BUT JUST TO DO RIGHT BY THE PEOPLE.

HE SET THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ON A BEAUTIFUL COURSE.

WE WERE ABLE TO GET SO MUCH DONE WITH THE FINANCES AND GET PEOPLE, BUT THAT CONCERN THAT REALLY COMES FROM HIM REMINDS ME A LOT OF MY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WITH THAT PEACE AND PATIENCE, FINDING THAT STILLNESS WITHIN YOURSELF TO FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE AND MAKE DECISIONS NOT BASED ON POLITICAL EXPEDITION BUT BASED ON PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THINK IN THE LAST DAY HE WAS GETTING READY TO TURN OVER THE OFFICE, WE MET IN HIS OFFICE WITH HIS FINANCIAL PEOPLE AND THEY HAD BEEN THROUGH THE HORRORS OF THE EARLY DAYS.

>> RIGHT.

>> AND THE ONE LADY, MARGARET, GOT UP AND SAID, GOVERNOR, YOU DON´T KNOW HOW REMARKABLE THIS RECOVERY HAS BEEN.

SHE STARTED TO CRY, AND ALL OF US STARTED TO CRY, THOSE WHO HAD BEEN THROUGH THE CAMPAIGNS, EVERYTHING.

WE WERE AWASH WITH EMOTION, BUT IT WAS A SENSE OF PRIDE THAT WE -- THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT $600 MILLION IN CDs IN THE ACCOUNTS OF THE GOVERNMENT, AND WE BASICALLY WERE IN CONCERT WITH ALL OF OUR BILLS.

THAT WAS NOT THE CASE THE FIRST DAY WHEN WE MET AFTER THE INAUGURATION WAS OVER, MR. MALLOY BROUGHT IN IN A EARLY BRIEFING SESSION AND SHE SAID, GOVERNOR, THEY JUST CALLED FROM ARIZONA AND SAID WE HADN´T PAID THE BILLS FOR THE PRISONERS AND THEY´RE SENDING THEM HOME TOMORROW MORNING.

THAT WAS OUR -- YOU KNOW, OUR BAPTISM.

>> IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE A BAPTISM BY FIRE WHEN YOU COME INTO THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR.

EVERY DAY IS THAT TRIAL, YOU WOULD SAY, BUT -- >> I NEVER GOT UP NOT KNOWING THERE WAS GOING TO BE A CRISIS THAT DAY, BUT WHAT KIND OF CRISIS I NEVER KNEW.

>> YEAH, THAT´S THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT IT.

IT IS EXCITING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE CHALLENGES.

I MEAN FOR ME, MY FAVORITE THING TO DO IN THE WORLD IS A CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

EVERY DAY IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS THERE ARE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, AND THERE´S ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE LONGSTANDING ONES WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ATTACK AND THERE ARE A LOT MORE THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO ATTACK IF WE ARE BLESSED WITH ANOTHER TERM.

I THINK ABOUT THE GOVERNOR, WHICH IS TRUE, IS EVERY GOVERNOR SHOULD BE GUIDED BY HISTORY.

SO YOU KNOW JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF FEAST COME SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE.

SO AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION, WE HAD A FAMINE.

[ INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS ] >>> GOOD AFTERNOON, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

>> GOOD AFTERNOON.

>> IT IS GOOD TO BE HERE.

I HAVEN´T SEEN YOU IN A WHILE.

>> A GOOD WHILE.

IT WAS A REMARKABLE DAY I THINK, AN OUTPOURING OF LOVE FOR OUR GOVERNOR, OUR HISTORIAN, OUR EDUCATOR.

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY AND ABOUT THE GOVERNOR?

>> WELL, I HAVE BEEN WITH THE GOVERNOR NOW FOR THE LAST I THINK FOUR DAYS.

WE WERE IN ST. CROIX AND ST. JOHNS AND ST. THOMAS, AND I´VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH THE FAMILY.

-- TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

THERE WERE MANY, MANY MEETINGS THAT WE HAD BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME TURBULENT TIMES.

>> I REMEMBER.

>> IN THE ADMINISTRATION.

>> I REMEMBER.

>> AND HE GUIDED US WELL.

ONE THING I WOULD HAVE TO ALWAYS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS WHAT OF THE LEGAL ADVICE OR THE LEGAL SOLUTIONS WE CAME UP WITH THAT GOVERNOR TURNBULL WOULD ALWAYS GROUND US IN THE HISTORY AND THE CULTURE AND WHAT IT WAS WE WERE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE FRAME OF WHAT WAS REALLY BETTER FOR THE ENTIRE TERRITORY.

I WILL TAKE FROM HIM, YOU KNOW, A LEGACY OF HUMBLE SERVICE.

HE WAS REALLY A COMPASSIONATE AND WONDERFUL AND LOVING PERSON TO THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

AS YOU SEE ALL OVER THE OUTPOURING AS WE WISH HIM GOODBYE AND AS WE PRAY FOR HIS ETERNAL REST, PEACEFUL REST BECAUSE HE SERVED US WELL.

EACH OF US WILL CARRY PROFOUND MEMORIES OF THE TIME SPENT WITH HIM INTO THE FUTURE.

>> I THINK ALL OF US WILL.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

>> THIS REALLY HAS BEEN A PERFECT CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

THANK YOU, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

>> THANK YOU.

>> GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

>> GOOD TO SEE YOU AS WELL.

>>> GOOD AFTERNOON, SENATOR HANSON.

>> GREETINGS.

HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

>> I AM AWESOME, ALTHOUGH I AM VERY SADDENED TO SEE -- ACTUALLY, MOST PEOPLE MAY NOT RECALL, BUT HE ALWAYS REFERRED TO ME AS COUSIN BECAUSE I AM, FROM THE TURNBULL FAMILY FROM THE DISTRICT OF TORTOLA.

>> WELL, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SERVICE I THINK AND AN OUTPOURING OF LOVE FOR THE GOOD GOVERNOR, OUR EDUCATOR, THE HISTORIAN.

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

>> THOUGH IT WAS LENGTHY, WE WERE NOT BORED BY IT BECAUSE EVERYONE IN A STORY TO TELL, A REAL STORY OF WHAT HE REALLY WAS.

WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT.

FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, REMEMBER THAT WHILE HE WAS GOVERNOR I SERVED AS THE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR OF THE LEGISLATURE.

ALL RIGHT.

I WAS ALSO AN INDEPENDENT, NO PARTY.

>> RIGHT.

>> HE WAS STRONG.

YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE THE RELATIVE ISSUES OF THE PARTY VERSUS THE NONPARTY MEMBERS.

I DELIVERED FOUR BALANCED BUDGETS AND NO TAXATION OF THE PEOPLE, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

THOSE WERE JUST FILLED, FILLED WITH REVENUE-GENERATING MEASURES.

WHEN IT WENT TO GOVERNOR TURNBULL I COULD SEE THE SCENES BEHIND IT.

YOU CAN´T VOTE FOR IT, YOU CAN´T SIGN IT.

>> I WAS ON THE GOVERNOR´S TEAM.

I WAS RIGHT THERE WHEN THOSE WERE TAKEN.

>> OKAY.

YOU REMEMBER THAT BECAUSE YOU WERE PART OF THAT ADMINISTRATION.

>> I WAS.

>> EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT I´M SAYING AND IT´S CORRECT.

YOU DID A GOOD JOB.

>> AND HE DID.

HE ALWAYS COMPLIMENTED STAFF FOR THE JOB THAT THEY DID.

HE ALWAYS WAS COMPLIMENTARY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

>> HE NEVER GOT PERSONAL.

HE KEPT IT VERY PROFESSIONAL AND SHOWED HIS LOVE.

>> THAT´S WHAT WE´LL REMEMBER.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> YEAH.

>> I´M HERE WITH THE LEADER AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WHERE HE SPENT ALMOST TWO DECADES AS A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY.

WHAT IS HIS LEGACY TO THE UVI?

>> HIS LEGACY IS THAT HE REPRESENTED EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION.

HE WAS AN EDUCATOR WHO BECAME A GOVERNOR, NOT A GOVERNOR WHO BECAME AN EDUCATOR.

BECAUSE OF THAT, I THINK THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAS BENEFITTED ENORMOUSLY.

HE WAS A THOUGHTFUL AND SINCERE MAN AND SOMEONE WHO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR OUR STUDENTS.

I THINK THE REAL CHALLENGE FOR US AS A UNIVERSITY IS TO BE ABLE TO EMBODY SOME OF THE WRITINGS THAT HE DID AND TO HAVE THEM PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

>> THE LAST TIMES WE WERE TOGETHER BEFORE HE WENT TO THE STATES, HE SHOWED ME A BIG BINDER OF DATES THAT WERE WRITTEN IN HIS HAND LIKE FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.

THERE WAS TEN HISTORICAL VIRGIN ISLANDS FACTS.

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET TOGETHER TO START PUBLISHING THEM.

WHAT HAPPENED IS HIS BROTHER DIED.

AFTER HIS BROTHER DIED, HE KIND OF WENT INTO A DEPRESSION.

SO WE NEVER GOT TO REALLY DO THEM.

MY HOPE IS THE FAMILY WILL DONATE THEM TO THE UNIVERSITY WHERE THEY CAN BE REALLY PUT TO GOOD USE, BECAUSE IT IS A TREASURE TROVE OF VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORY.

>> WE WOULD BE HONORED TO RECEIVE THEM.

WE HAVE THE WRITINGS AND COLLECTIONS OF OTHER VIRGIN ISLANDERS.

IF IT NEEDS TO BE PUBLISHED, WE WOULD BE MORE THAN WILLING TO EMBRACE THAT.

I WAS VERY HONORED TO GET TO KNOW HIM IN MY ROLE AS PRESIDENT.

HE ALSO SERVED AS A TRUSTEE FOR THE UNIVERSITY.

I WAS ALSO ABLE TO BESTOW UPON HIM AN HONORARY DOCTORATE OF HUMANE LETTERS.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> TAKE CARE.

>> GOD BLESS.

>> OKAY.

>> WE´RE HERE WITH FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT MYRON JACKSON, WHO HAS BEEN A LONG TIME FRIEND OF THE LATE GOVERNOR BECAUSE OF HIS PENCHANT FOR HISTORY.

TELL US ABOUT THE HISTORIAN THAT YOU KNEW.

>> WELL, IT´S AN HONOR TO BE HERE TODAY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN THAT MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

OUR COMMON INTEREST, OF COURSE, WAS HISTORY AND CULTURE.

IN MY TRIBUTE IN HIS BOOK CLUB I MADE MENTION THIS YEAR MARKS 40 YEARS SINCE I REALLY FIRST MET THE GOVERNOR AS A RESULT OF THE TRAGIC DEATH OF MY DAD, I WAS ENCOURAGED TO MAKE A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA.

I DECIDED THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRIP I WOULD MAKE.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN MAKING THAT HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THE CREATION OF THE CULTURAL EDUCATION DIVISION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

I WROTE A PROPOSAL THAT HE APPROVED AS COMMISSIONER TO ALLOW US TO INVESTIGATE THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE GOLD COAST, WHICH IS TODAY GHANA AND THE FORMER DANISH WEST INDIES.

WORKING IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOR 32 YEARS UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION OF EIGHT YEARS, I SERVED AS DIRECTOR UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP.

WE TOOK A TRIP TO DENMARK, MORE SPECIFICALLY TO DEAL WITH THE ARCHIVES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE RETURN OF THEM.

YOU WERE IN HIS CABINET AT THAT TIME.

>> YES.

I REMEMBER OUT OF THAT CAME BACK THE INITIATIVE TO BUILD THE TURNBULL LIBRARY.

>> TO BRING THE RECORDS TO THE TERRITORY BACK.

IT HAD BEEN DECIDED THAT THE DIGITAL IMAGERY WOULD BE THE FORM TO WHICH VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE WORLD WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR HISTORY.

YOU CAN GO ONLINE ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME AND LINK THE VIRGIN ISLANDS TO THIS HISTORIC PAST.

>> SENATE PRESIDENT MYRON JACKSON, IT´S BEEN A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU HERE.

>> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE MY RECOLLECTIONS OF GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

>> THANK YOU.

>>> GOOD AFTERNOON SENATOR, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

>> I´M GOOD.

HOW ARE YOU?

>> FINE, THANK YOU.

IT´S BEEN A WONDERFUL DAY CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL.

I´D LIKE TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS OF THE GOVERNOR.

I BELIEVE HE MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTRUCTOR OF YOURS.

>> I´M NOT THAT OLD.

ACTUALLY GOVERNOR TURNBULL WAS OUR GOVERNOR WHEN I WAS IN EIGHTH GRADE.

ACTUALLY MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE AND THEN YOUNG WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR AT THAT TIME.

MYNORRINE MICHAELS.

I HAVE A PICTURE OF HIM SHAKING MY HAND ON GRADUATION DAY.

WHAT I REMEMBER MOST ABOUT HIM IS HIS DEVOTION TO GOD.

HE WAS IN THE SECOND PEW RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR.

WHILE HE WAS GOVERNOR, HE NEVER MISSED A SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE EVER.

HE CAME IN HUMBLE.

THERE WAS NO SECURITY, NO GIGANTIC PROTOCOL.

HE JUST ASSUMED HIS REGULAR PEW AND HE WORSHIPPED GOD.

THOSE ARE MY FINEST MEMORIES.

I´M FROM A DIFFERENT ERA CLEARLY.

I DIDN´T SERVE IN HIS CABINET OR ANY OF THE ABOVE, BUT HIS IMPACT ON VIRGIN ISLANDS LIFE AND KIND OF MINIMIZE WHAT HE´S DONE FOR THE PEOPLE AND OUR GOVERNMENT.

>> I DID SERVE IN HIS CABINET.

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GOT.

HUMBLE.

NO AIRS ABOUT HIM.

JUST A HUMBLE MAN WHO WANTED TO SERVE.

>> IT´S INTERESTING BECAUSE I REMEMBER CAMPAIGNING WITH MY DAD FOR GOVERNOR SNYDER.

MY DAD WAS GOVERNOR SNYDER´S ADMINISTRATOR.

I REMEMBER US LOSING TO GOVERNOR TURNBULL IN 1995.

IT WAS A SAD DAY GOING TO THE HEADQUARTERS.

AS I CONTINUED TO STUDY HIM AND LOOK AT HIM, I REALIZED, YOU KNOW, HE WAS A GREAT GUY.

>> THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS ON GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

IT´S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

>> SAME HERE.

THANK YOU.

>>> AS WE CONCLUDE THESE ACTIVITIES SURROUNDING THE STATE FUNERAL OF GOVERNOR CHARLES WESLEY TURNBULL, IT´S ONLY APPROPRIATE THE PERSON WE SPEAK TO LAST IS HIS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR RICHARDS.

>> THANK YOU.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

>> WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

>> WELL, MY THOUGHTS ARE MULTIPLE.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL TODAY WAS HONORED RIGHTFULLY SO, AND THE OUTPOURING OF LOVE AND AFFECTION IS INDICATIVE OF THE TYPE OF PERSON HE WAS.

HE WAS A HUMBLE HUMAN BEING.

HE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT SOUGHT AFTER THE LEAST OF THESE.

I´VE ALWAYS SAID THAT.

GOVERNOR TURNBULL, WHEN ASKED TO CONSIDER LAYING OFF PEOPLE IN THE TERRITORIES TO THE TUNE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, BALKED AT IT AND GOT FURIOUS AND SAID NO, I WOULD NEVER DO THAT.

INSTEAD, HE CHOSE ATTRITION.

HE FOUND A DIFFERENT WAY TO AT LEAST DEAL WITH THE PAIN OF HAVING TO LAY OFF PEOPLE.

>> THOSE ARE MY MEMORIES.

>> YEAH.

>> WHAT I ALWAYS APPRECIATE WAS THAT HE HAD A FONDNESS FOR YOU.

YOU OPERATED IN A WAY THAT MOST GOVERNMENTS WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEIR LEADERS OPERATE.

BEFORE HE MADE A DECISION, HE ASKED YOUR OPINION.

WHETHER HE AGREED WITH IT OR NOT, WHATEVER.

BUT HE SHOWED YOU THE RESPECT OF A LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

THAT´S THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP LOOKING ON FROM MY POINT OF VIEW.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

IF I MAY, FOR THOSE THAT MAY SEE THIS, WE HAD A GREAT RELATIONSHIP.

HE SHARED WITH ME THE ISSUES AS IT RELATES TO POLICY.

HE ALLOWED MY INPUT.

HE GAVE ME A FULL HAND TO RUN ST. CROIX AT THE TIME, WHICH WAS HAVING ITS OWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.

HE WAS VERY GENEROUS IN HIS LEADERSHIP.

LIKE I SAID, HE SHARED THAT LEADERSHIP WITH ME.

THERE ARE OTHER INSTANCES WHEN I BROUGHT PEOPLE BEFORE HIM.

THE DANISH PROGRAM WHERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE CAME FROM DENMARK.

WHEN I WENT TO GOVERNOR TURNBULL SAYING I NEED YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS INITIATIVE IN ST. CROIX, HE SUPPORTED AND VALUED IT.

>> IT´S A BITTERSWEET MOMENT THAT WE MEET.

GOOD TO SEE YOU, BUT WE WERE HERE TO CELEBRATE A LIFE WELL LIVED AND VERY PRODUCTIVE.

>> WELL, I WOULD SIMPLY SAY GOD BLESS GOVERNOR TURNBULL.

HE´S LEFT THE PLACE IN A BETTER PLACE THAN HE MET IT.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>>> NOW THE FUNERAL IS HEADED TORNADO THE INTERMENT.

WE BRING THIS COVERAGE OF HIS STATE FUNERAL TO AN END.

JOANNE, IT´S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.

IT BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES, MEMORIES OF THE CABINET OF HIS, HIS ADMINISTRATION.

WHAT WAS YOUR CONCLUSION AS TO THE SERVICE?

>> I THINK THE SERVICE WAS A LITTLE LENGTHY, BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE THAT HAD SOMETHING TO SAY.

EVERYONE HAD A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.

I THINK THE CONSENSUS WAS HE WAS A HUMANITARIAN, A HISTORIAN, JUST A GENUINE GOOD PERSON.

IT WAS SO LOVELY TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE, FORMER COLLEAGUES THAT I HAVEN´T SEEN IN YEARS EVEN THOUGH WE ARE STILL LIVING IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

BUT IT WAS SO NICE TO SEE SO MANY OF THEM COMING OUT TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO OUR BELOVED GOVERNOR.

IT WAS A WONDERFUL SERVICE.

I THINK THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SPEAKING ABOUT HIS HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE.

I HAD TO SMILE, BECAUSE EVERY MEETING WE HAD, EVERY CABINET MEETING, HE HAD TO RELATE SOMETHING BACK TO HISTORY THAT WAS OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING THAT DAY.

>> ALMA ADAMS WHO WORKED WITH MY OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND THE MAJOR SPEECHES, WE ALWAYS LAUGH ABOUT THE TIMES WHEN WE WERE WORKING TO DEVELOP THE STATE OF THE TERRITORY ADDRESS FOR THE NEXT NIGHT.

THE GOVERNOR WOULD EVERY LINE OF THE SPEECH AFTER EACH PARAGRAPH HE WOULD GIVE A PAUSE.

IT GOT TO 2:00, 3:00 IN THE MORNING.

THEN AT 3:30 RELIGIOUSLY HE´D SAY I´M COMING BACK.

THEN HE´D WALK TO HIS ROOM.

NEXT THING YOU HEAR WAS SNORING.

WE´D HAVE TO FINISH HIS SPEECH.

HE HAD A STRONG SENSE OF HISTORY.

HE ALWAYS SAID WHATEVER DECISION I´M MAKING, IF THE PUBLIC IS OUT IN THE STREETS PROTESTING, AS LONG AS I FEEL IN MY HEART IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION TO MAKE, I´M WILLING TO AWAIT THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY.

THAT´S THE KIND OF MAN HE WAS.

>> I THINK THE GOVERNOR BRYAN COMMENTS ABOUT HIM BRINGING US BACK FROM THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY.

I RECALL MANY NIGHTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WOULD MAKE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL.

AT THE END OF HIS SERVICE, HE TURNED OVER A GOVERNMENT IN MUCH BETTER CONDITION THAN HE INHERITED.

AND THAT WILL BE A PART OF HIS LEGACY.

JIMMY, IT WAS A PLEASURE SITTING WITH YOU.

YOU CALLED ME INTO SERVICE.

>> IN CHARLES´S WORDS.

>> IN HIS WORDS.

I´LL TELL YOU WHAT I USED TO TELL HIM, GOVERNOR, UNDER PROTEST AND MUCH DURESS, BUT I COMPLETED EVERY ASSIGNMENT.

IT WAS GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> I REALLY ENJOYED SHARING THIS EVENT WITH YOU, BECAUSE IT WILL BE IN OUR MEMORIES FOREVER.

>> TAKE CARE.

THANK YOU.

>> SIGNING OFF ON BEHALF OF WTJX AT THE STATE FUNERAL OF GOVERNOR CHARLES W. TURNBULL.

HAVE A GOOD DAY.

THANK YOU.