Hundreds gathered at the Bethesda Methodist Church on September 14, 2022, to pay their last respects to Clement Montgomery Carty who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 74.
Carty, as he was called by many is described as “a pioneer in the Credit Union movement in Dominica” and the region having served on the boards of various credit unions on the island and the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Union (CCCU).
Among mourners at his funeral service were President of Dominica Charles Savarin and his wife Clara, government minister Reginald Austrie and other government ministers, members of the credit union fraternity, family, friends, and well-wishers.
“The patriarch is no longer physically with you, he is now with God,” said officiating Minister Rev Morna S. Christmas Frazer.
She told the gathering that we scriptures remind us that all the resources that have been entrusted to us, are to be used for God’s glory and the common good of humankind.
“We are also reminded, that we are also going to be God, for what we do with what we have. He tells us that none of us poses a talent of our own, but all our gifts and talents are of the Lord and so, it would be good then for us to pause and ask ourselves what we have and how are we using what is entrusted to us for the glory of God and the advancement of humanity,” she said.
“This, as we continue to leave in a world which is increasingly marked by the pursuit for power, prestige, and possession fueled by selfishness and greed.”
Brother Carty, she stated, was a gifted accountant with “an astute mind and a heart of service.”
“This he demonstrated well which has been aptly chronicled and he was also close to many persons in his sphere of work in the church and community. He loved what he did, and he used his skills to serve. He knew that he was not his own and walked with God, he also walked with a blessed assurance that Jesus was his and he resorted to prayer as he journeyed life that Jesus keeps me near the cross.”
She called on the faithful to live a life in such a way that when called, God will say, “well done good and faithful servant.”
His body was laid to rest at the Roseau Public Cemetery.
