Pastor calls out killers of elderly man

The 91-year-old man killed in a horrifying home invasion was remembered at his funeral Friday as a devout family man — and his pastor said the man’s killers “can’t hide from God.”

Dozens of friends and family members filled the Hanson Place Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Fort Greene to pay their respects to Waldiman Thompson, who died last week when crooks broke into the Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone he lived in with his 100-year-old wife, Ethlin. “You can hide from the police for a little while, but you can’t hide from God”, Pastor Bernard Penn said during the service. “Brother and sister Thompson are very special to us.”

Several family members spoke during the somber service, along with Public Advocate Letitia James.

“When Hanson place grieves, the city grieves, and I grieve as well”, James said. “I want to extend my deepest sympathy at the passing of your beloved brother Thompson.” She read a letter from Mayor de Blasio who extended his “deepest sympathies and condolences.”

Waldiman Thompson grew up in Jamaica and worked as a machinist for many years. “Over the course of his long life, he also enjoyed crab hunting, gardening, boxing, weightlifting, cricket, and football (soccer)”, said relative Berwyn Thompson.

His son, Delroy Thompson, called his father “a provider.”

“My father had two priorities – religious consciousness and education. Education was essential”, he said. “He made sure food was on the table, and books were available.”

(nypost)