Ramdaye Sookhan 1920 - 2003

SOOKHAN, CHEDDIE, MOONSAMMY

Posted By: Marguerite (email)
Date: 7/28/2003 at 14:58:14

Ramdaye Sookhan, 83, of 1030 Dover Street, Iowa City, died Friday evening, July 18, 2003, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City following a lengthy illness.

Services with a reception to follow will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 21, 2003 at Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service, 605 Kirkwood Avenue, Iowa City. Friends may call from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Cremation will follow the service. Memorials in her name may be made to the Arthritis Foundation.

Ramdaye Sookhan was born April 23, 1920, in British Guiana, the daughter of Bhoopa and Radhia Sookhan. She married Ramgobin Cheddie in her hometown and lived most of her life in Guiana until after her husband’s death. She moved with her sister in April of 1991 to the United States and made her home with family in Iowa City, Iowa. She loved the land and was an avid gardener of flowers and vegetables. She had a special love for her family on whom she centered her concerns.

Ramdaye is survived by her daughter, Lilian Moonsammy and her husband Albert of Iowa City, two grandchildren, Andrea Moonsammy of Chicago and Christopher Moonsammy of Napa Valley, California, also numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one brother and two sisters.