National Flour Mills (NFM) Feed Mills Superintendent Mc Allister Charles, 46, was described yesterday as not only a dynamic leader but a ferocious worshipper.
Delivering the eulogy at his funeral service, Charles’ wife, Deborah said her husband spoke no negative words in any situation that he was faced with.
The funeral service was held at Miracle Ministries Christ Castle International in Chase Village.
“He was a good husband who protected me at all cost. He was the perfect gentleman. He was also playfully and lovingly provoking that no one would have gotten vex with him,” Deborah said.
“Whenever his subordinates called him on the phone he instantly gave solutions to problems at the Feed Mill Plant,” she added.
Charles was a senior minister and served, alongside with his wife, as a Discipleship Leader where he took up the role as mentor to new converts. Charles’ pastor Dr Winston Cuffie described Charles as a man of integrity and a man of faith. Cuffie pastored him for just over 25 years.
A representative from the NFM, Yvette Eastman described Charles as one who “shared his life with us and which reflected in his work.”
“He used his faith to navigate the challenges of work. We mourn his passing as he was a brother, coworker and a man of dignity,” Eastman added.
She extended condolences to the bereaved family on behalf of NFM’s Board of Director’s and management.
Charles, 46, died at 3 pm on Sunday, while warded at the St Clair Private Hospital. Charles worked at NFM for the past 25 years.
It was reported that at about 1 pm last week Thursday Charles fell from a height and sustained injuries to his head, shoulder and waist.
He was taken to the private hospital where he underwent emergency surgery and subsequently warded in an unconscious state.
NFM’s release issued on Monday said that Charles fell on the southern staircase of the Feed Mill facility.
An autopsy which was done at the Port-of-Spain mortuary on Monday revealed that Charles died from aspiration pneumonia (results from inhalation of stomach contents or secretions of the oropharynx, leading to lower respiratory tract infection), cardiogenic shock (a condition in which your heart suddenly can’t pump enough blood to meet your body’s needs), status post exploratory laparotomy (a surgical operation where the abdomen is opened and the abdominal organs examined for injury or disease) and alleged fall first degree heart block scleroderma (essentially, a conduction defect in the heart caused by an autoimmune connective tissue disease).
Investigators of the Occupational, Safety and Health (OSH) Agency have since launched an investigation into the incident.
Burial took place at the St Mary’s Public Cemetery.
