Indian community to bid adieu to Dr Raman Vasan in Wellington
The Indian community in Wellington and entire New Zealand is in grief after the sudden, but a peaceful demise of a prominent member of the community, Dr Raman Wason, on Wednesday, July 12 with his family by his side from an unexpected illness.
Dr Vasan is survived by wife Latha, children: Nilesh, Neesha, Shirena, Lavanya and Sai, daughter-in-law Dimple, sons-in-law Alan and Phillip, and grandchildren Dylan, Krish and Mariam.
A service to celebrate Ray's life will be held at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, at 10.30 a.m. on Monday, July 17, followed by a private cremation.
Messages for the family may be sent c/o- Lychgate Funerals, 306 Willis Street, Wellington 6011.
The family and the near and dear ones of Dr Wason is appealing all guests planning to buy flowers for the funeral today to kindly think of donating The Blind Foundation and Heart Foundation, in lieu of flowers.
This will be a befitting adieu to a person who found absolute joy in reaching out to the wider community in his capacity as an acclaimed physician and surgeon in Gisborne and Wellington.
Ray, as he was commonly known, lived life to the fullest and enriched those lives that interacted with him.
He had treated countless, grateful patients in Gisborne and Wellington with his diagnostic and excellent surgical skills.
However, it was his passion to contribute to community’s cause other than those requiring his immediate medication that made him so adorable in the community.
As President of the Wellington Indian Association, Dr Vasan foresaw the funding, purchasing, and building of the Indian Association Temple and Hall in Kilbirnie; a facility that will serve the Indian community for years to come.
Similarly, Dr Vasan was an integral member of the team that has been passionately pursuing the cause of finding an amicable legislative solution for a dignified immersing of ashes of beloved members of Hindu (and Sikh) community in New Zealand.
Dr Vasan was a part of six member team of Wellington Hindu Community who met with the Law Commission on Wednesday, December 4, 2014, about the long felt cultural needs of burial and dignified immersion of ashes in water bodies in New Zealand.
Sadly, this is the second precious loss to the Hindu Community of Wellington and the larger Indian community in Wellington after the earlier demise of Dr Rajiv Chaturvedi from Hindu Council of NZ.
Dr Rajiv Chaturvedi had passed away on Sunday, April 23 at his residence in Wellington after suffering respiratory difficulties and died within a short time as emergency services arrived.
“Undoubtedly, this is a great loss to the Wellington Indian community and the Hindu community of NZ who have been long raising the voice of realising aspirations of having a respectable way to depart our loved ones in a culturally appropriate manner,” said Selva Ramasami, another integral part of Hindu community of Wellington.
The Indian community in Wellington and entire New Zealand is in grief after the sudden, but a peaceful demise of a prominent member of the community, Dr Raman Wason, on Wednesday, July 12 with his family by his side from an unexpected illness.
Dr Vasan is survived by wife Latha, children: Nilesh,...
The Indian community in Wellington and entire New Zealand is in grief after the sudden, but a peaceful demise of a prominent member of the community, Dr Raman Wason, on Wednesday, July 12 with his family by his side from an unexpected illness.
Dr Vasan is survived by wife Latha, children: Nilesh, Neesha, Shirena, Lavanya and Sai, daughter-in-law Dimple, sons-in-law Alan and Phillip, and grandchildren Dylan, Krish and Mariam.
A service to celebrate Ray's life will be held at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, at 10.30 a.m. on Monday, July 17, followed by a private cremation.
Messages for the family may be sent c/o- Lychgate Funerals, 306 Willis Street, Wellington 6011.
The family and the near and dear ones of Dr Wason is appealing all guests planning to buy flowers for the funeral today to kindly think of donating The Blind Foundation and Heart Foundation, in lieu of flowers.
This will be a befitting adieu to a person who found absolute joy in reaching out to the wider community in his capacity as an acclaimed physician and surgeon in Gisborne and Wellington.
Ray, as he was commonly known, lived life to the fullest and enriched those lives that interacted with him.
He had treated countless, grateful patients in Gisborne and Wellington with his diagnostic and excellent surgical skills.
However, it was his passion to contribute to community’s cause other than those requiring his immediate medication that made him so adorable in the community.
As President of the Wellington Indian Association, Dr Vasan foresaw the funding, purchasing, and building of the Indian Association Temple and Hall in Kilbirnie; a facility that will serve the Indian community for years to come.
Similarly, Dr Vasan was an integral member of the team that has been passionately pursuing the cause of finding an amicable legislative solution for a dignified immersing of ashes of beloved members of Hindu (and Sikh) community in New Zealand.
Dr Vasan was a part of six member team of Wellington Hindu Community who met with the Law Commission on Wednesday, December 4, 2014, about the long felt cultural needs of burial and dignified immersion of ashes in water bodies in New Zealand.
Sadly, this is the second precious loss to the Hindu Community of Wellington and the larger Indian community in Wellington after the earlier demise of Dr Rajiv Chaturvedi from Hindu Council of NZ.
Dr Rajiv Chaturvedi had passed away on Sunday, April 23 at his residence in Wellington after suffering respiratory difficulties and died within a short time as emergency services arrived.
“Undoubtedly, this is a great loss to the Wellington Indian community and the Hindu community of NZ who have been long raising the voice of realising aspirations of having a respectable way to depart our loved ones in a culturally appropriate manner,” said Selva Ramasami, another integral part of Hindu community of Wellington.
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