WHEN Pamela Punch asked Monsignor Kenneth Spence to preside at a special thanksgiving mass to celebrate her 60th wedding anniversary on August 21, she did not think it would have turned into a day of sorrow.

What was supposed to be a day of celebration turned on its head when the officiant collapsed during the service and later died.

At the Office of the Dead evening prayer in loving memory of Msgr Spence at Our Lady of Perpetual Help RC Church, San Fernando, on August 27, Punch, a retired principal of Holy Faith Convent, Couva, recalled that dreadful moment.