The fu­ner­al of so­ca artiste Dex­ter “Blaxx” Stew­art will take place at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, at 10 am next Wednes­day (April 6). 

The “fi­nal cel­e­bra­tion” for Stew­art, 60, who passed away at the Ari­ma Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal on Mon­day due to com­pli­ca­tions re­lat­ed to COVID-19, was an­nounced by his fam­i­ly and friends in a re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day. 

In the re­lease, his fam­i­ly sought to thank the doc­tors and nurs­es at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, St Au­gus­tine Pri­vate Hos­pi­tal and the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal, who pro­vid­ed “ut­most” care to him be­fore his death. 

“His loved ones would like to take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to open­ly say “thank you” to every­one who have giv­en freely of them­selves dur­ing the last few months of Dex­ter’s time with them—Giselle Gellineau-Pen­rose, Tri­cia Har­ri­paul, Richard Gor­dan, Kevin Stephen, Carlysle Roberts, De­on Joseph, Adana Joseph and Swee­lan Ger­ald-Re­ece,” it said. 

The re­lease not­ed that Stew­art had been an icon in the so­ca in­dus­try for over three decades and was a beloved fa­ther, broth­er and un­cle. 

“He was an im­pec­ca­ble en­ter­tain­er with pas­sion and en­er­gy, who gave of him­self ef­fort­less­ly to en­rich and im­prove the lives of oth­ers,” it said. 

It said that his great­est loves were his chil­dren, rel­a­tives and en­ter­tain­ing. 

“Their hearts are sad­dened but they know that he’s now in per­fect peace. They cher­ish all the won­der­ful mo­ments with him and feel blessed to have ex­pe­ri­enced his ex­tra­or­di­nary gift,” it said. 

The re­lease ad­vised mem­bers of the pub­lic who wish to sup­port in any way in the cel­e­bra­tion to con­tact Richard Gor­dan at gor­don­richard868@gmail.com or 684-4528.