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THERE were tears of sorrow, gusts of laughter and shouts of affirmation as people remembered Steve, Kizzy and six-year-old Janea Elder at their joint funeral at the Mt D’Or Seventh Day Adventist Church, San Juan on June 11.

The three died when Steve Elder, 40, lost control of the vehicle they were in shortly before midnight on May 31. The car flipped over after it ran off the Solomon Hochoy Highway in Claxton Bay and Elder and his family died at the scene, along with passenger Kathlyn Wright. An unidentified male passenger sustained serious injuries.

Elder’s first cousin Sheryl-Ann Chan shared memories of growing up with him in San Fernando, where he was raised by his grandmother. She said although his mother died when he was young, his grandmother and his aunts showed him the love of a mother.