Service to the end

SHE LIVED HER LIFE avoiding the spotlight. She preferred to help others behind the scenes.

But yesterday, Verona Gibson took centre stage as her life and times were celebrated by the hundreds she touched.

The sweltering afternoon heat was no deterrent to the hundreds who crammed inside and also gathered on the outskirts of St Barnabas Anglican Church to pay their last respects to Gibson, who lost her life two weeks ago during a savage attack by dogs.

The 74-year-old former nurse was mauled to death by a pack of dogs shortly after leaving her Monroe Road, Haggatt Hall, St Michael home on Saturday, January 29, on her way to clean her beloved St Barnabas Church. (AD)

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