His life, a gay kaleidoscope,
Made humble plodders dream and sigh:
His death, so filled with Christian hope,
Has taught the Godless how to die.
Once more the death-toll has sounded and in its encircling wave of silence carried away a prominent, illustrious and patriotic son of St. Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States, to the Great Beyond.
Adolph Francisco Sixto, died at his home two o’clock on Saturday morning July 5th, after what seemed to have been a short illness, as up until Tuesday of the same week he was seen moving about town. Paralysis seemed to have been the cause. His daeth marks a serious loss to the Race,
On the morning of July 4th after the gala parade had reached the field, friends who passed the way of his residence stopped to inquire about him only to learn and later spread the news of his precarious sick condition. Too late aware most of his friends who afterwards hurried to see him as consciousness had already taken leave.
St. Thomas has lost a Son that may not again be replaced in a few generations. Adoph Sixto (alias Ding) became known to us about 42 years ago. As a young man, he was a Stage Artist, and as such fired the ambition of many a youthful life to fit itself intellectually. Up to a certain period of his career, he held the commanding Cord of respect and admiration of the entire community that cheerfully moved in response to his touch.
Rivalling his professional career, were his successful activities, when he branched out as a dreamer of the future prosperity of his country and became the author of the book "Time and I, (or looking forward)"
Adolph Fraocisco Sixto was a man of wide experience, well read, with a storehouse of knowledge gained through extensive travels, having touched with his feet the soils on almost all the countries of North, Central and South America, the Bahamas, Windward and Leeward Islands, Porto Rico, Sto, Domingo, Haiti and Cuba.
During the last 6 years, he was twice sent by the people of St Thomas to the United States to make representation on their behalf. First on a political mission, and second on an economic one to advertise the Virgin Islands at the Sequ-Centenial, held at Philadelphia in 1926.
As a leader in Civic circles, or as a social worker, he may for many years not have been an outstanding figure, but who among us dares cast a stone at Nature and Nature’s handiworks?
Adolfo Francisce Sixto is dead. Died at the age of 71 years, at a time when he was about completing a historized volume containing the life of the Virgin lslands past and present, already advertised under the name
"The Three Carib Virgins’’. Dead in so far as the weakness of the senses given to human to penetrate into things inpenetrable. Dead, in so far as applied to our mortal bodies where in illusions make of us, beasts brutes, devils, angels, destroying evilly or constructing hopefully. But Adolph Francisco Sixto has disrobed the husk of mortality and received the wages of Sin, only to live on in the memory of generations unborn. His spirit unlike most of the forgotten dead sons of St. Thomas, cannot be buried as its footprints are reeorded on the Sands of Time. Men like James Chesterfield Roberts, Adolph Sixto and others who live only as sacrifices to illuminate the way for better conditions of their people can never die. His evening Sun is set but his Stars are forever brilliant.— "The Emancipator.”
(St. Croix avis 15. juli 1930).
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