Community pays tribute to Kenton Kirby

[Pan Times]

Caribbean Life

Brooklyn, New York, USA - The Caribbean community in Brooklyn on Saturday paid their last respects, during a funeral service, for Kenton K. Kirby, editor emeritus of Caribbean Life, who died on Sept. 6 at NYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney, a nursing rehabilitation center on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn, where he was a resident for some time. He was 76.

Kenton Kirby, the Vincentian-born Editor Emeritus of Caribbean Life, dies at age 76

....“Kenton was like a professor,” said Trevor Hepburn, a steelpanist, who trekked from the Bronx to play at the service.

“When Kenton gave you music, you have to take it or leave it,” he added. “Kirby had given me musical arrangements.”

Trevor Hepburn, left, and Arthur Smith pay tribute on pan

Hepburn then proceeded to play on steel pan “Into My Heart” and “Sweet Hour of Prayer.”

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