GLEN ROCK, NY: Sikhs came from the United States and Canada to pay homage to S. Sohan Singh at a bhog of the Akhand Path held on January 6, at the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara here.

The devotion of the departed soul to Sikh community affairs, his kind and generous manner and the inevitability of earth, as well as the ways in which the Guru Granth Sahib tells us to face this painful time, were amongst the common themes which were touched upon by various speakers on the occasion.

Those who addressed the sangat were Bhai Avtar Singh, Dr. Manohar Singh Grewal, Baldev Singh, Tejinder Singh Kahlon, and Surjit Singh who represented the sangats of Glen Rock, Boston, New York, Long Island, and Bridgewater respectively, as well as Harbhajan Singh, president of Sikh Youth of NJ, Dr. Satwant Kaur Dhamoon, President Sikh Women’s International Organization, and Harbhajan Singh Gill, Vice president of World Sikh Organization.

After the Bhog of the Akhand Path, Giani Gurdeep Singh the head Granthi of Sikh Cultural Society, Richmond Hill NY, did the Ardas in which he asked the almighty to grant to the bereaved family the strength to face the painful loss.

The Hazuri Ragi jatha of Bhai Nirmal Singh rendered kirtan, whereas Bhai Amarjit Singh and Giani Gurdeep Singh Performed the Katha.

All the members of the Grewal family including S. Jarnail Singh, S. Amarjit Singh, S. Pritam Singh, S. Kamikkar Singh and S. Wazir Singh were present at the bhog as were S. Sohan Singh’s father S. Kaka Singh Khere, mother Sardarni Dalip Kaur, and S. Mohan Singh, the elder brother of S. Sohan Singh.

As reported earlier, Sardar Sohan Singh, 33, passed away on December 28, His car skidded on an icy pat of route 663 in Pennsylvania and collided with a truck killing him instantaneously. He is survived by his wife Sardarni Harvinder Kaur, and his two children Gurpreet Singh (6) and Damanpreet Kaur (2),

Sardar Sohan Singh an engineer by training had immigrated to the United States six years ago. He ran a gas station business in New Jersey. He was the son-in-law of S. Jarnail Singh Grewal.

Article extracted from this publication >> January 12, 1990