Granny Luces was a Goliath: Family, friends remember veteran runner at funeral Friday 26 February 2021 People gather to view photographs of the late long-distance runner Lynette ‘Granny’ Luces, at her funeral, on Thursday at the Mt D’Or Seventh Day Adventist Church. - ROGER JACOB LYNETTE "GRANNY" Luces was remembered as the female Goliath and a legend by former colleague and friend Curtis Cox during the funeral of the beloved long-distance runner at the Mt D'Or Seventh Adventist Church on Thursday. Luces, an avid long-distance runner, was 93. She had a stroke in October, and died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex on February 18.