Late Eileene L. Parsons OBE getting a fit for a queen send-off
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The body of Mrs Parsons, who passed away on June 22, 2025, at Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital, was taken from the House of Assembly to the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in a carriage this morning.
The funeral procession began around 8:00 AM.
A pre-service is scheduled for 8:30 AM, with the funeral service at 10:00 AM.
Interment will follow at the Road Town Methodist Church Cemetery in Long Bush, on the main island of Tortola.
Lying in State
The body of the late legislator and cultural icon laid in state on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, and the general public was also given an opportunity to pay their final respects.
Mrs Parsons, who died just days shy of her 95th birthday, was the first woman in the Virgin Islands (VI) to serve as a Government Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Deputy Speaker of the then Legislative Council.
Meanwhile, official flags will be flown in the Territory at half-mast at all Government buildings today.
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37 Responses to “Late Eileene L. Parsons OBE getting a fit for a queen send-off”
Gone but would not be forgotten.
May her soul rest in eternal peace.
May your soul Rest In Eternal Peace....
You will be Missed
In the last 75 years we only had 2 state funerals: Hon Lavity & Hon Paul. I recall for our first ever for Lavity we had to seek advice from Antigua and other countries on how to perform a State Funeral
Do you even know the definition of state funeral? And by the way there were more state funerals held in the BVI other than Hon. LH Stoutt and Paul Wattley.
Was it your money?
Take several seats Mr Burnett
It is not the cost I have an issue with but the fitness for purpose.
I have no doubt that Mrs. Parsons served this country well.
However, all the glits and glamour, fine speeches cannot give entrance into God's Kingdom. All I heard while watching the funeral was what she did for the country, what she did, what she did. What about her soul? I am not God, but the Bible says, "By their fruits ye shall know them." From the Special Sitting one can hear about her love for Johnny Walker and what she did. Absolutely nothing for the Lord.
What made me shake my head is when the Methodist Minister failed to preach to the couple hundreds of people that were at the funeral and invite them to REPENT of their sins, but no, it was all about Eileen who has gone to sleep after being on this earth for 94 years and a couple of days! It is a crying shame, and some of these so-called Ministers need to come off the pulpit because God is not pleased. Ministers like these are one of the reasons I don't care to attend funerals these days because they disgust me with all these fancy speeches when there is an opportunity to invite them to surrender to God. No matter if they are honourable this, or honourable that, they NEED THE LORD because death is no respecter of persons. It is time to speak to the living! Time is short! Jesus is soon to come! STOP compromising or get off the pulpit!!
When we can’t see enjoy smell taste experience
Their tired bbl and fake hips looking very disgusting and them tired anyways nothing new for the eyes to wonder
#seen all yuk
Mrs. P was a Queen, a Nubian Princess indeed.