Berdel Fuller, whose wife perished in the Portland road tragedy, comforts his grandson, affectionately called 'Pops'. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Berdel Fuller sat pensively on his veranda in Ginger House, Portland, reflecting on his wife of 44 years who died in the Dam Ridge truck crash.

It was the ninth and last time for Elrita Fuller as a crash victim. The arthritis-ridden woman was heading to Kingston in the ill-fated Ford truck but, unlike most persons on-board, she was not heading for the market.

"Is food she was carrying for some of our children in town," Berdel told The Gleaner.

Just hours before Elrita boarded the market truck, she sat with Berdel and their four-year-old grandson.

"Mi grandson seh to har, 'Mom, where yuh going?' and she said Kingston."

Berdel said the boy looked at his grandmother and told her, "When yuh go a town and di gunman come, yuh fi shub him."

Berdel said the boy said it to his grandmother twice, warnings the senior citizen views as premonition about her death.

"I will miss her but I will just have to press along and fight di battle," he said.

'When yuh go a town and di gunman come, yuh fi shub him.'

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