Husband dies days after wife’s traffic death
The grief for a family and church in St Ann was intensified just before Christmas with the death of Bishop Lawford Bolt, just days after the death of his wife Pastor Phyllis Bolt, 61, in a traffic accident.
Pastor Bolt, travelling with family members and friends, was returning to her home in Lime Tree Gardens following a visit with her husband in St Ann’s Bay Hospital when she was involved in a traffic crash. The head on crash with a VW Jetta was on the Llandovery Main road, a section of the North Coast Highway, on Sunday December 13.
She was killed on the scene and her body had to be cut from the mangled wreck. The driver of the VW involved in the crash has been charged.
Family members of Pastor Bolt had been in shock over the death of a woman about whom almost everyone, interviewd in her community by The Times, spoke positively and glowingly.
The Times reported last week that Bishop Bold, her husband had not been told of the death of his wife until two days later, a day after he underwent surgery in connection to his kidney complaints for which he was in hospital when his wife visited.
But grief was added to the community and their church, Triumphant Church of God of Lime Tree Gardens, when on Thursday morning, December 24 Bishop Bold died.
Pastor bolt’s sister, Norma Jean Perry said the news had shocked the whole family. She said the couple’s three children – including their daughter Judena Bolt who was in the traffic crash — are comforting each other in their grief. She said they were even trying to help comfort her. She said it was particulalry hard for the family and friends because the two deaths had come so close.
Mrs Perry said she knew members of the Triumphant Church of God were also shocked and grieving but the church would go on. People in Deon, Lime TreeGardens and as far away as Brown’s Town were also expressing their sense of loss at the deaths. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
