The joint fu­ner­al for 82-year-old Syl­da Mudie and her 80-year-old hus­band Cal­tus, which was ini­tial­ly card­ed for to­day, has been post­poned un­til fur­ther no­tice.

This was con­firmed yes­ter­day by a rel­a­tive who ex­plained that they took the de­ci­sion af­ter a few fam­i­ly mem­bers test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. The rel­a­tive told Guardian Me­dia that they will have to wait at least 10 days for them to re­cov­er, so they have not yet de­cid­ed on a new date.

Mudie, 82, was chopped and then shot to death by her hus­band, who al­so chopped and in­jured their son De­r­ick at their Ed­ward Trace, Basse Terre Vil­lage, Moru­ga home on Au­gust 10.

When the po­lice re­spond­ed, Cal­tus, a gar­den­er, who was in the yard in front the house, point­ed his shot­gun at of­fi­cers and they fired 11 rounds, hit­ting him sev­er­al times. He died the fol­low­ing morn­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for the Mud­ies was sched­uled for the Ro­man Catholic Church in Gran Chemin, Moru­ga.

In an ar­ti­cle on Au­gust 12, just days af­ter the in­ci­dent, the Catholic News not­ed that Syl­da Mudie was a “prac­tis­ing Catholic” who, in her younger years, taught First Com­mu­nion and Con­fir­ma­tion class­es. She was a lay min­is­ter at the St An­tho­ny’s Chapel in Basse Terre.

Catholic News in­ter­viewed Mudie’s rel­a­tive Josephine Alpheus, who de­scribed Mudie as a gen­er­ous per­son and a men­tor.

Alpheus said, “She was a good per­son in the vil­lage, al­ways teach­ing peo­ple about God. She al­ways cor­rect­ed peo­ple, she was very firm…she was out­spo­ken, es­pe­cial­ly about God to young peo­ple.”

Alpheus al­so re­called that Mudie taught cro­chet­ing at a chil­dren’s camp held dur­ing the Ju­ly-Au­gust va­ca­tion and do­nat­ed to church min­istries. Mudie re­turned to the coun­try from New York the week­end be­fore the in­ci­dent.

Alpheus said Mudie told her she had planned to vis­it New York in Oc­to­ber.

She told the Catholic News that Mudie sup­port­ed church events, en­joyed go­ing out on pil­grim­ages in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties and for har­vest day in Moru­ga, she man­aged the cake stall and pre­pared cas­sa­va pone and cas­sa­va bake.

The Catholic News al­so spoke with Fr David Khan, who knew Mudie. He de­scribed her as a true pil­lar of the Catholic Church in Moru­ga.

Mudie had two chil­dren and one grand­child.

Au­top­sies con­duct­ed on the bod­ies of Mudie and her hus­band con­firmed their deaths were due to mul­ti­ple gun­shot in­juries.