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Submitted by: Mr Ramnik Dattani
Via email: dtd Feb 14, 2008 (received at 2:00AM / London, UK Time)

This is to sorrowfully notify all Musomians and all our friends from Mwanza District (Tanzania) about untimely demise of late Mr. Suryakant Trivedi who passed away last Sunday February 10, 2008.

I was told, he got an attack in the plane while traveling to Cyprus for an anticipated enjoyable holiday. He was accompanied by his wife, son-in-law and daughter.

He was immediately admitted in the hospital in Cyprus and showed good sign of recovery while kept in ICU. But, unfortunately, he got another fatal attack and thus his sacred soul took a final journey to heaven instead.

Let us all collectively pray to Almighty God to rest his soul in peace and bestow his immediate family members with enormous strength to endure such a shocking and sorrowful trail of pain that they might be undergoing. My personal sincere condolences to all immediate family members concerned.

Late Mr. Trivedi, myself, Mr. Yogendra Vyas, Mr. Purohit and late Mr. Kanubhai Patel worked for Barclays Bank DCO in Mwanza and Musoma. All five of us were very good friends. Regretfully, we have now lost two.

Late Mr. Trivedi (74) whom I knew right from my school age was a very learned and charming person. He served our society in several respects including performing matrimonial ceremonies and kathas. We have lost a very good friend and particularly Mr. Vyas,  Mr. Purohit and myself will miss him a lot.

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PRAYERS:

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FUNERAL:

I shall be grateful if you would please convey this URGENT message to all fellow Musomians via your blog (source) and also please, if you can,  pass on this crucial message personally to all your individual friends too.

Many thanks.

Ramniklal Dattani.

Note from Admin/MusomaBlog:

An email has been sent to Mr Ramnik Dattani to confirm the date and time of the Prayer Meeting and the funeral. As soon as clarification is received, the changes, if necessary, will be made.

Note from Admin/MusomaBlog:

The dates and times are now clarified and confirmed and are as above.

Thank you to Mr Ramnik Dattani for communicating efficiently and promptly. He sent out the first email to MusomaBlog at around 2AM UK time just so that the news reaches everyone.

News submitted by: Rahim Kassam
via |Contact| page: on Feb 13, 2008

We regret to inform you of the sad demise of Saied Madat Hussein Walji.

He passed away in Alabama, USA on 2/10/08. He was laid to rest on 2/12/08 in Alabama.

Praying to god to rest his soul in peace. Our condolence to Walji family.

New content coming soon! informed Musomians of some pictures that have been received by MusomaBlog and will make for interesting browsing through.

Following the earlier pictures submitted under {Old Musoma Pictures | Contributed by Mr Vikram Thind}, here is the next set of pictures.

The following pictures had been submitted, via email, some time back by Mr Anil Chudasama. The recent news of the passing away of Musomians did not make it conducive to post the pictures.

Mr Anil Chudasama, will obviously know, the places and location in Musoma where these pictures have been taken. Maybe fellow Musomians can chip in and share their memories of Musoma of old and how it looks today.

Last week MusomaBlog promised some group pictures from way back. These pictures will create a lot interest among Musomians. It is hoped that our community, spread across all the corners of this world, will join forces and make these pictures even more interesting by naming or identifying the people in the pictures. It would also be appreciated by many Musomians, if various stories, anecdotes, memories surrounding these pictures are shared.

MusomaBlog requests all Musomians to share any information on the following pictures, submitted by Mr Vikram Thind with the help of Mr Pritpal Sandhu. Information such as, year the picture(s) were taken, events surrounding the pictures, and of course, identifying the people in the pictures.

Without further ado, here are the pictures:

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Pictures contributed by: Mr Vikram Thind and forwarded to MusomaBlog by: Mr Pritpal Sandhu.

Received by email of Feb 5, 2008

Hello there:

Thanks to all of you for your condolences and sympathies on the sad demise of my mother Zerakhanu (Fatma) Hussein Bhanji Rehemani.

I browsed thru the website and thought would let you know that I am her daughter, Mina Hussein Bhanji. 

My mother passed away in Dar-es-Salaam on Thursday October 4th at 10:15 a.m. at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam.  She died of heart failure.  Her sons Riyaz and Maheboob Bhanji live in Dar-es-Salaam and l, her daughter Mina, live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.    

I was able to also attend the funeral on Saturday October 6th at the Upanga Jamatkhana Social Hall in Dar.

I had visited Dar during the Golden Jubilee on August 17th and the family had fun and met all the friends and family from Musoma after a long time.  Most of the people who were visiting from other countries who were Musomians also met my mother.  The entire family celebrated Golden Jubilee together.

My Mum fell sick on August 21st and went thru pneumonia. However, she recovered after two weeks.  I came back to Edmonton (Sep. 13th) and subsequently exactly after 2 weeks she passed away on the 23rd day of the holy month of  Ramadhan.  Here cemetery is located at the Ismaili cemetery in Dar-Es-Salaam.

We miss our mother terribly and all we can do is pray for her soul to rest in eternal peace. 

Ameen.

My mother is survived by her Sons Riyaz, Maheboob, her Daughters-in-law - Shairose Riyaz Bhanji and Shama Mahboob Hussein Bhanji; Daughters Izat, Nadia, Mina and Grandchildren: Taslim, Alikhan, Yasmin Dinani, Sabrina Esmail, Rina, Shairin & SirhanRiyaz Bhanji, Noren & Ruhee Maheboob Bhanji & Talib & Aseef Daredia.

Thanks to all Musomians for the support.

I did attend the 2005 reunion in Toronto and thoroughly enjoyed meeting everybody and of course my childhood friends as well.

Thanks for keeping this website.  It is quite informative.

Please note my email address is: amynah_bhanji {[at]} yahoo {[dot]} com

Thanks,
Mina