Hugh Ewing

Hugh Sinclair Ewing was born in Belmont, Trinidad on June 26, 1930, was the second child of Edward and Agata McMillan Ewing. After completing high school at St Mary's College, Hugh took a position in the court system as a reporter for the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper. While in Trinidad, Hugh developed an abiding interest and passion in music and carnival and as a young man he became the leader of DEM BOYS, one of the most prestigious Steel Bands in the island at that time. Upon his migration to the United States in 1960, Hugh held a number of positions in which he excelled. However, he possessed a keen sense of entrepreneurship and in 1964 founded H&S Color Lab located in the heart of Manhattan which became his second home. He would spend long hours enhancing his talent in, as he stated the "finishing end" of photography. During that time he married and raised a family in the Bronx and continued to "grow" his business producing work for publishers, designers, architects and other professionals who valued his expertise and attention to detail. Hugh's many loves included his large extended family in the USA and in Trinidad. Among them he was known as an excellent story teller. He often reminisced about old times, travel, family, parenting and steel pan. His talent for trading stories was so highly developed and enjoyed by all that he was the person often called upon to make spontaneous speeches and toasts at many special occasions which he did with aplomb and delight. Although raised in the Methodist Church, he was fond of attending mass in New York at St Patrick's Cathedral when he could, often taking family members and visiting friends with him. He talked passionately and constantly about Carnival in such vivid and immediate language that those around him would think that he had just returned from a Trinidad Carnival, even though he had not set food on the island in over twenty years. And there was no better advertisement for Trinidad Carnival than Hugh. He was able to talk even skeptics into experiencing it, if only one time. Hugh's other passions included tennis (playing and watching), cooking, music of every sort especially operas and the arias derived from them as performed by artists like Luciano Pavaroti, Leontyne Price, and Andrea Bocelli. Music swelled in the air when Hugh was around. And even after he lost his sight, he still continued to concoct some delicious meals based on the recipes he had mastered over the years. He was known to start a party where one or two were gathered together. In passing, Hugh joins his parents, Agata and Edward, sister, Joyce, and three brothers, Leon, Terry and Edward. He is survived by his companion of 25 years, Jean Keizs; two sons, Eric, and Shawn; daughters-in-law, Hisha and Joanna; four grandchildren, Devina, Amber, Jordyn and Shannon; five sisters, Jean, Joyce, Joan, Bunny and Julia; a cousin, Carl, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. The many close friends and extended family are too numerous to mention by name.