Miss Fanny

Our final stop for the day was with Frances Henry (Miss Fanny). She was watching cartoons. In her younger days, Miss Fanny, 100 years old, was a higgler who bought and sold fruits in Brown's Town, St Ann. She has nine children and one son is deceased. Her husband Thaddius died four years ago aged 100 years old.

Miss Fanny remembers Hurricane Charlie in 1951.

"It was a Sunday and I was in the kitchen cooking. Mi did just draw out the wood from under the food when a voice said go check on the children."

" I ran into the house and see that the children were fast asleep so I wake dem up. Mi ask dem what dem a do if them nuh hear breeze a blow."

By now, her eyes began to light up as she told the story. "Suddenly the breadfruit tree drop down pon top of the house and the Lord pitch mi out of the way and I land on the barbecue," she continued.

"Little after mi see the children dem a jump through the window one by one. But the youngest one, Robert was still inside, him was trapped because the whole house did come down on him." In the end, the next-door neighbour came to his rescue.