ADEUS MARY JOSEPHINE D'SA.

ADEUS MARY JOSEPHINE D’SA.

It is with deep sorrow I wish you Mary adeus not only to Kuwait forever but also to this world. Tuesday 26th August your mortal remains will be flown to Goa via direct flight from Kuwait to Dabolim. To start this direct flight facility for Kuwait Goans your devoted and faithful husband has also spent his time, energy and resources. To get this direct flight materialised you too patronized our activities done to raise funds for this cause. Along with your husband you always supported and patronized Konkani which is the soul of Goa and Goans. You were an avid reader of my writings in Konkani. In the beginning when I came to Kuwait I was Konkani writer writing regularly in Goa’s famed Weekly “Goycho Mog”. In order to read my column you and your husband subscribed to Goycho Mog direct from Goa. This shows your love for the soul of Goa, Konkani.

Whenever we organized Konkani functions you always associated with us and patronized our activities along with your husband. When Kuwait Konknni Kendr first time organized a Konkani function in a 5 Star Hotel, in Kuwait at Meridien, KKK was proud to have you both as guests. It was about 25 years back and that was the most memorable and most important Konkani function ever held in Kuwait though it was only for especial invitees and you were KKK’s especial invitees along with others in the hall packed audience. You were always bold enough to converse with me in Konkani and you always gave due respect to Konkani. By this attitude of yours you made us Konkani promoters and Konkani lovers proud because rarely in Kuwait ladies like you exhibited their love for Konkani as you have done. In your death Konkani lost one of its strong lovers and supporters.

You come from Arpora Bardez which produced the first English High School of Goa for boys where your beloved and faithful husband completed his education. As a young school going boy, I saw you in Arpora as one of the most immaculate girls of your time. You were during those days a beautiful girl in your locality, so also decent and disciplined with superlative character. This was your family tradition since you inherited all round discipline from your home. Your younger and late brother Assumption D’Costa was my colleague at Arpora where we spent many years together not only studying but also in sports fields.

Yesterday for the Mass in the Church while preaching his homily, Fr. Domnick Santamaria praised your husband very appropriately by saying that as a devoted and faithful husband he has fulfilled his marriage vows to stand by you in good time and bad time, in sickness and otherwise and openly congratulated him for fulfilling his marriage vows. Such attitude is rarity nowadays but in your husband it was a reality. I too admire him in this respect. Your devoted and faithful husband Raymond D’Sa took so much of care of you almost during the last 2 years when you were bed ridden, till your death, of course patiently and most importantly, LOVINGLY. Yours was the perfect match and perfect pair always elegant, morally upright, dignified, disciplined and pious. I observed you that in a pure Goan tradition you always revered your devoted and faithful husband.

In your death Raymond your devoted and faithful husband lost his equally devoted and faithful wife; your all 3 lovely children lost their equally lovely and caring mother. And Konkani lost a supporter among females in Kuwait.

May Your Soul Rest In Peace and may Heavenly God give courage to Raymond and your children to bear this colossal loss.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.