A 71-year-old, retired, senior intellectual and a research Physicist died of a natural cause. He migrated from Karnataka state, in 1972. He holds B.S from Karnataka University (1970) M.S from IIT (1972), MS (1974), and Ph.D. (1978) from the University of Cincinnati. He was never married and worked all his life as a scientist. Unfortunately, he did not have any family members in the USA and his two sisters living in Bangalore could not travel to the US for his funeral. TEAM Aid, Hindu Community Organization, and BMM together coordinated a religious funeral service for him.Â