May 26, 2025

Written after the hearing on May 19. 2025

The way that the case was presented is not the way it happened.

Miss Gwenny and I might have done wrong by spending all we ever earned on a property that didn’t belong to either of us.  But should we end up with nothing after all these years? Should I end up with a debt?  She only wanted to show her gratitude to her friend and caregiver.  She was a mentor for me.  I followed her instructions; she gave me her Power of Attorney.  Her aunt brought her back into her will by saying she should get a quarter of any sale or lease of the property.

The law says that Miss Gwenny could not give what she didn’t own. She thought that since Miss Marion’s will gave her guaranteed lifetime tenancy and called her the “legal owner” she could make her own will. She knew no other way to secure anything.  Mr. Clitus Angol, the Justice of the Peace and Mr. George Royer, respected senior citizens of Portsmouth, were both witnesses to her will.  Could they have stopped this tragedy?

The chain of executors has been established.  Ownership of the property has been established.  The beneficiaries of Miss Marion’s will were all dead at the time Miss Gwenny wrote her will.  She alone was left standing.

There is nothing of Miss Marion’s, Miss Kitzia or Miss Gwenny’s in the house.  There is no furniture, no objects, no glassware, no keepsake, no books, or religious pieces.  Everything has been destroyed over the years by various hurricanes, earthquakes and finally Hurricane Maria. Not even the house was standing in liveable condition. Miss Marion had died in 1988, Miss Kitzia, months after in 1999. Miss Gwenny had to sell her grandmother’s Meb bed to bury Miss Kitzia.  Ma Dewhurst bought the bed. 

It is not a true statement to say that I did nothing after I received Mr. Alick Lawertence’s letter. I took the letter to Miss Gwenny’s lawyer. Para Riviere.  After his death the situation was moved to Noreen John, who was still with Legal Aid, then Hurricane Maria came, and so I continued with her at her private office. She was communicating with Michael Bruney looking for a solution.  After Noreen John died nothing at all was ever heard from them until the Bailiff, as a surprise, came from Dawn Yearwood’s office.

I am at the Court’s mercy.   I am about to be on the street with no where to go or live.  I didn’t know what was written, or how the law was interrupted.  I didn’t force Miss Gwenny to do anything.  What she did was from her good heart.  May she rest in peace.

I wonder how Miss Gwenny and her aunt are getting along in heaven? Miss Marion, Miss Kitzia and Miss Gwenny are looking at this confusion from heaven with dismay. May their souls rest in peace.

McDowell Magloire