Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Saturday July 3, 2010
Tun Ismail?s widow dies
KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Norashikin Mohd Seth, the widow of a former deputy prime minister, Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, passed away yesterday. She was 80.
She will be laid to rest at the Warrior?s Mausoleum, where Dr Ismail is also buried, before zohor prayers today.
The people can pay their last respects from noon until 1.30pm at the Lecture Hall, Masjid Negara, before the funeral.
Her remains were taken to the family residence at No 100, Jalan Pinggir Za?aba, Taman Tun Dr Ismail here.
All her six children ? Mohd Tawfik, 59, Zailah, 57, Badariah, 53, Mohd Tarmizi, 50, Zama*khshari, 46, and Mohd Ariff, 42 ? and 13 grandchildren were by her bedside when she breathed her last.
According to Zama*khshari, Norashikin had bouts of fever and was diagnosed with Influenza A (H1N1) when she was admitted to a hospital.
She later developed complications and septicemia.
Zamakhshari described his late mother as a religious person and a devoted caregiver.
?She loved cooking for us. She was just a housewife when my father became deputy prime minister from 1970 until 1973,? he said.
Zamakhshari said he was only nine when Dr Ismail died, leaving his mother to raise the family on her own.
?Both my parents believed that education is the greatest gift to their children.
?Although she was not highly educated, she persisted in puttting us through university,? he said, adding that five of the siblings were educated abroad while one studied locally.
Among those who paid their last respects were Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his wife Tun Jeanne Abdullah, the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein?s wife Tun Rahah Noah, her sister and widow of the late Tun Hussein Onn Tun Suhaila.
Najib described Norashikin as a respected role model who contributed a lot to society especially in charity.
?She was a dutiful wife,? he said, adding that her character was exemplary.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/3/nation/6601347&sec=nation
Tun Ismail?s widow dies
KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Norashikin Mohd Seth, the widow of a former deputy prime minister, Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, passed away yesterday. She was 80.
She will be laid to rest at the Warrior?s Mausoleum, where Dr Ismail is also buried, before zohor prayers today.
The people can pay their last respects from noon until 1.30pm at the Lecture Hall, Masjid Negara, before the funeral.
Her remains were taken to the family residence at No 100, Jalan Pinggir Za?aba, Taman Tun Dr Ismail here.
All her six children ? Mohd Tawfik, 59, Zailah, 57, Badariah, 53, Mohd Tarmizi, 50, Zama*khshari, 46, and Mohd Ariff, 42 ? and 13 grandchildren were by her bedside when she breathed her last.
According to Zama*khshari, Norashikin had bouts of fever and was diagnosed with Influenza A (H1N1) when she was admitted to a hospital.
She later developed complications and septicemia.
Zamakhshari described his late mother as a religious person and a devoted caregiver.
?She loved cooking for us. She was just a housewife when my father became deputy prime minister from 1970 until 1973,? he said.
Zamakhshari said he was only nine when Dr Ismail died, leaving his mother to raise the family on her own.
?Both my parents believed that education is the greatest gift to their children.
?Although she was not highly educated, she persisted in puttting us through university,? he said, adding that five of the siblings were educated abroad while one studied locally.
Among those who paid their last respects were Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his wife Tun Jeanne Abdullah, the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein?s wife Tun Rahah Noah, her sister and widow of the late Tun Hussein Onn Tun Suhaila.
Najib described Norashikin as a respected role model who contributed a lot to society especially in charity.
?She was a dutiful wife,? he said, adding that her character was exemplary.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/3/nation/6601347&sec=nation