Lynette E. Rocke

Ms. Lynette E. Rocke, 56, of Conyers, GA passed Wednesday, December 2, 2015. A Memorial Service for Ms. Rocke will be held at 10:00AM Monday, December 7, 2015 at Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Home 4347 Flat Shoals Pkwy, Decatur, GA 30034 (404) 241-5656. Lynette Rocke was born on April 7, 1959 in Enterprise Village, Chaguanas, Trinidad. The daughter of Cecil and Viola Rocke. She had three sisters (Noreen, Lystra, and Lyrette) also four brothers (Winston, Steve, Lloyd, and Lawson). At the tender age of four (primarily to accompany her brother Lloyd) she started school. Lynette went on to “Lendore Hindu” School in Enterprise where she built friendships that would last her entire lifetime. In November of 1972 (at the age of 13) Lynette migrated to New York with her sisters to join the rest of her family. She began attending school at Erasmus Hall High School. One year after graduation, she joined the U.S. Air Force where she was stationed in places like Virginia, Massachusetts, Texas, and Japan (reuniting with her lifelong best friend Monica Callendar). Lynette excelled the ranks in the Air Force to Senior Master Sergeant (one rank away from Chief), also earning her Bachelors degree. Lynette had three children (Nicholas, Nigel, and Danielle who passed on shortly after birth) and a gift from her eldest son Nicholas, a grandson named Tai, who she could not have a greater care or love for other than God. Godself as she would say. After retiring from 22 years of military service, she departed from San Antonio, Texas to Georgia in 2002 (first to Augusta then to Atlanta less than a year later). She began work in Atlanta with the FDA then went to work for the EPA where she worked until she retired early 2015. Lynette Rocke was also an avid student practitioner of profound spiritual teaching. For those who can understand the spiritual, she has laid down mortality to embrace immortality on December 2, 2015 at 8:15am. From where she is now, she can see and feel what we are all experiencing. She is probably saying “we have no idea how much better, glorious, fulfilling, and free she is and that there are no words to describe this experience.”Before her transition, Lynette, aka “Da Priestess” had a true love and passion for the steel pan, hence the song that was written for her and sung by Barnett Henry aka Da Preacher “Passion for Pan.” She loved the steel pan, calypso music, and just the whole Trinidadian culture as a whole, that she formed a company, “Priestess Productions, Inc.” as an event specialist to present pan and Caribbean culture to people of all nationalities and ethnic backgrounds. Lynette truly left us all a legacy to be remembered and carried on.

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Lynette E. Rocke

April 7, 1959 - December 2, 2015