Dr. Dennis Anthony Warner was known for his generosity.

“Sometimes patients didn’t have the money to pay for their medicine and he would buy it for them,” his ex-wife, Charlene Wallace Warner Coleman, recalled of Dr. Warner, who practiced psychiatry in Richmond from 1978 to 1989.

He also had a vivacious personality and an irrepressible sense of humor.

“He was vibrant with a highly developed sense of humor,” said Mrs. Coleman, who resides in Henrico County. “He was the life of the party.”

Dr. Warner led a remarkable life that took him from his native Trinidad, West Indies, to Kingston, Jamaica, to Richmond, then back to Trinidad.

In that journey, he married, had four children and practiced medicine in the fields of psychiatry and gynecology.

Dr. Warner is being remembered following his death Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, in Trinidad. He was 71. His funeral will be held Monday, Nov. 10, in Trinidad.

Dr. Warner met his ex-wife when they were students at Howard University. He graduated in 1968 with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and mathematics. The couple married that year in Richmond.

Dr. Warner received further medical training at Harvard University in 1972. The family then moved to Kingston, where Dr. Warner earned a medical degree with specialization in gynecology in 1973 from the University of West Indies on the Mona Campus.

He practiced gynecology until the family moved to Richmond from Jamaica in 1978, escaping political upheaval.

After their divorce in 1989, Dr. Warner moved back home to Trinidad, where he practiced general medicine and psychiatry.

He is survived by two sons, Tarik and Dia; daughters Thandi and Saphire; and four grandchildren.