First Quarter Sans Mother- A Tribute

It had been a difficult time for the whole family to pass three months without an important member of a family who nearly spent more than eight decades on this planet and nearly six decades to build my family as it stands together. Her life can roughly be divided into four phases. The first phase was of her childhood at Parao Mehna village and education at Moga upto graduation level and then graduation in education from D.S.College Firozepur. This phase also includes her brief stint as a teacher in a school owned by the then Chief Minister of Punjab Pratap Singh Kairon at Patti. Second phase of her can be said to have begun with her wedding with Kehar Singh Kang of Dharamkot village in 1953 A.D. This phase included her decade long stay at Dehradun upto 1962 A.D, where my father worked as Physics demonstrator at Indian Military Academy. This phase was a blend of sorrow, joy and achievement. Her source of sorrow was the loss of her first child and joy knew no bounds when she was blessed with a daughter and in between these two phases her academic achievement was post graduation in Maths along with her husband Shri Kehar Singh Kang from D.A. V. College Dehradun and Agra University. Second phases ended with twin events- one was her husband's new assignment as Physics teacher at Sainik School Chittorgarh and then the birth of her son in 1962. During this phase of her life too she had brief stint of service as a matron in the school. Lack of domestic help compelled her to leave this job in the interest of the family. This phase also saw the sad demise of her parents as her father passed away in 1969 and then demise of her mother in 1972 A.D . Despite these sorrows she strengthened herself by devoting her entire energies to build her family. The fourth and last phase of her life began after my father's retirement from Sainik School and the family shifted to the bought house from Housing Board. Though marriage of her daughter was held in third phase of her life but her son's marriage and the joy of grandchildren could come only in the fourth phase of her life. she gave strong support to her husband in his illness as heart patient and seeing his illness no body could have even dreamed that she would breath her last in the dying month of the last year.