Guy Ot­t­ley, a for­mer pres­i­dent of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) was hailed as a very nice and car­ing in­di­vid­ual at his fu­ner­al ser­vice at the San Fer­nan­do Open Bible Church on Thurs­day.

Ot­t­ley died sud­den­ly in his sleep last Mon­day at the age of 82 but his lifestyle drew a large turnout of friends, fam­i­ly and well wish­ers, most of whom just want­ed to pay their fi­nal re­spects to a man whose life would have touched them. In ad­di­tion to be­ing an ed­u­ca­tor, Ot­t­ley's car­ing na­ture for peo­ple was high­light­ed in the eu­lo­gies done by his chil­dren and grand­chil­dren.

He was a de­vot­ed fam­i­ly man and teacher, hav­ing taught at the San Fer­nan­do Se­nior Com­pre­hen­sive School and Gas­par­il­lo Pri­ma­ry school. In 1978 he won a schol­ar­ship to the Leeds Uni­ver­si­ty in Eng­land. And due to his tremen­dous tal­ents he al­so worked for Guardian Life in the area of sales.

In the area of sports Ot­t­ley served as vice pres­i­dent of the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League (SS­CL) and played a piv­otal role in the de­vel­op­ment of ath­let­ics.

His fu­ner­al was at­tend­ed by a num­ber of dig­ni­taries in­clud­ing Luke Quam­i­na, a for­mer na­tion­al un­der-16 crick­eter, Ephraim Ser­rette- NAAAs pres­i­dent, Forbes Per­saud- for­mer Chief Ex­ec­u­tive of the T&T Crick­et Board, William Wal­lace- pres­i­dent of the SS­FL, Emer­i­tus Rohlehr- for­mer prin­ci­pal at El Do­ra­do Sec­ondary and Dr Claude Dem­bo, among oth­ers.

Ot­t­ley was lat­er cre­mat­ed at Bel­groves Fu­ner­al Home Cre­ma­to­ri­um in San Fer­nan­do.