ST ANN, Jamaica — Hundreds of people, including a large percentage of the Portia Simpson Miller-led cabinet and several members of the Opposition led by leader Andrew Holness, turned out Thursday to pay their last respects to the revered politician and musician Seymour ‘Foggy’ Mullings.

An official funeral service for the former Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament was held at the St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Claremont, his hometown. 

Mullings died on October 9 at 82 years old after ailing for sometime.

Using Mullings’ favourite sport to describe him, former Prime Minister PJ Patterson who delivered the remembrance said Mullings “a comrade to the bone,”

According to Patterson, Mullings who contested seven major elections between 1969 and 2000 as the PNP candidate in South East St Ann , except for 1980 where he won by 53 per cent, won every one by over 70 percent.

“Using the imagery of his favourite sport—horseracing, Seymour Mullings established himself as Jamaica’s finest political thoroughbred,” Patterson said.

Mullings who earned the nickname Foggy, through a musical rendition during his school days, was remembered as a great politician who “touched the lives of thousands of persons in the North East St Ann constituency, Jamaica and the world”.