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Memorials
120 lives remembered from around the world.
Giovanni Battista Cavallo
“Tita”
1939 – 2021
Viticoltore di La Morra, custode del nebbiolo e cercatore di tartufi con la fedele Birba
La Morra, Italy
Sibusiso Elias Mkhwanazi
“Baba Sbu”
1946 – 2021
Gold miner turned NUM organiser who taught a thousand shop stewards to stand their ground
Johannesburg, South Africa
Patrick Joseph Nolan
“Paddy”
1938 – 2021
Guinness fermenting-room foreman, Shamrock Rovers man and Crumlin's unofficial bike mender
Dublin, Ireland
Vera Lúcia Coutinho Barbosa
“Dona Vera”
1950 – 2021
Petrobras reservoir engineer and one of the first women on Brazil's offshore frontier
Niterói, Brazil
Willem Adriaan de Kock
“Wim”
1935 – 2021
Philips NatLab engineer, Indo-Dutch camp survivor and lifelong PSV season-ticket holder
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Thérèse Ngo Mbock Bassong
“Mama Thérèse”
1951 – 2021
Commerçante du marché Mokolo, présidente de tontine et mère de tout un quartier
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Jorge Alberto Zamora Ibáñez
“El Profe Zamora”
1941 – 2021
UNAM engineer who taught Mexico City's buildings, and its engineers, to ride out quakes
Mexico City, Mexico
Abdullahi Mohamed Hussein
“Mzee Abdi”
1949 – 2020
Provincial administrator and peacemaker who settled disputes over sweet tea and patience
Nairobi, Kenya
Tomiko Iwasaki
“Tomi-baa”
1939 – 2020
Ama diver of Toba: sixty years beneath the waves, and a teacher of the next divers
Toba, Japan
Wilson Kipkemboi Rono
“Mzee Wilson”
1946 – 2020
Kitale maize and dairy farmer, church elder, and the man who timed his children to school
Kitale, Kenya
Hélène Marie Aubry
1941 – 2020
Sorbonne professor of medieval literature who made Old French sound like yesterday
Paris, France
Gerhardus Cornelius Oosthuizen
“Gerrie”
1948 – 2020
Eskom power-station engineer, Blue Bulls fan and the man who kept Kendal's lights on
Pretoria, South Africa
Elias Antoine Najjar
“Doctor Elias”
1936 – 2020
AUB engineering professor who kept teaching through fifteen years of civil war
Beirut, Lebanon
Elizabeth Araba Mensah-Bonsu
“Mama Araba”
1932 – 2020
Teacher and headmistress of Cape Coast who taught three generations to stand tall
Cape Coast, Ghana
Archibald Donald McKinnon
“Archie Mac”
1935 – 2020
Govan shipyard welder, UCS work-in steward and tenants' champion for twenty-five years
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Eduardo Santos Dela Cruz
“Mang Eddie”
1948 – 2019
Jeepney driver, hands-on tatay and the heart of a Quezon City street
Quezon City, Philippines
Elliot Tafara Mashingaidze
“Mufundisi Elliot”
1945 – 2019
Methodist minister and university chaplain who fed three hundred mourners in a hungry year
Harare, Zimbabwe
Henryk Józef Pawlik
“Heniek”
1930 – 2019
Górnik z Nikiszowca, hodowca gołębi i ojciec, który posłał syna na uniwersytet
Katowice, Poland
Arvind Kanji Mehta
“Judge Mehta”
1944 – 2019
High Court judge, birdwatcher and maker of Nakuru's most dreadful, beloved masala chai
Nakuru, Kenya
Gurbachan Singh Sethi
“Bauji”
1939 – 2019
Northern Railway clerk, hockey man and Partition survivor who fed thousands at langar
New Delhi, India
Emmanuel Nii Okai Quartey
“Okai Trumpet”
1939 – 2019
Highlife trumpeter, Achimota music master and the heartbeat of Jamestown's Homowo
Accra, Ghana
Titilayo Bosede Ajayi
“Matron Tito”
1940 – 2019
Matron of UCH Ibadan who trained a generation of nurses and sang at every bedside
Ibadan, Nigeria
Tanveer Ahmed Baig
“Coach Tanny”
1946 – 2019
PIA engineer, first-class fast-medium bowler and the Karachi coach who never cut a boy
Karachi, Pakistan
Tesfaye Alemu Gebre
“Ato Tesfaye”
1948 – 2019
Ethiopian Airlines engineer who kept the fleet flying and taught a street to build planes
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia