Friday Dec-18-09 from 6:00pm to 5:30pm:
Wake-Keeping, (Celebration of Pa's life) & Cry-die
Saturday Dec-19-09 @ 8am :Removal of corpse
Saturday @ 9:00am to 11:00am:
Funeral Procession (A grand tour of the City of Bamenda)
Saturday Dec-19-09 @ 2:00pm: Requiem mass .. Burial
"Life celebration" continues after burial, @ Pa's compound through the night.
Sunday Dec-20-09: Babadjou-Cameroon cultural and traditional rites of passage, and traditional dances (juju) will take place....
It is believe that his age was 107 at time of death. Pa had the physique of a man in his seventies. He was one of a few veterans of World War 11 in Cameroon.Pa J.T was one of the most experienced drivers in Cameroon, well known on Douala – Bamenda – Mamfe roads in those days.
He was driving a truck/Lorry one day in 1939 returning from Mamfe with passengers when the British soldiers stopped him at gunpoint, kidnapped in Bali and was forced to abandon his vehicle on the highway with the passengers. He was forced to join the British military. The French and British needed soldiers for its military during WW11. JT was forced into war where he drove army trucks for the allies in West Africa (Sierra Leone) South Africa (Cape Town) Bombay [India] now Mumbai, Egypt and in Burma, now Myamar.
After the war, in 1946, Pa J.T returned to Cameroon and was hired by the Bamenda Catholic Diocese. He transported building materials and other supplies and food commodities with his truck for several Catholic missions in the North Western Province of Cameroon. These materials were used to build secondary schools. He was forced to retire without pension in 1980.
Pa J.T never received military pension or an award since he returned to Cameroon after the war.But he remained fiercely proud and very passionate of his military service, so proud that he continued, on a daily basis, to wear his World War 11 caps, jackets, uniforms adorned with British military commendations.
Pa J.T. is survived by his two wives, mammy Regina Ndikum and mama Cecilia Ndikum.
12 children between the two wives, namely Francis Ndikum, Martin Ndikum, Michael Ndikum, Peter Ndikum, Emmanuel Ndikum, Brigitte Ndikum Nyada, Agnes Ndikum, Edith Ndikum-Konde, Grace Ndikum-Mokum, Gladys Ndikum-Ngoua, Florence Ndikum-Deidro and Alphonse Ngwalaju Ndikum. Pa leaves behind daughters-in-law, Helene Desbordes-Ndikum, Regina Ndikum, Victoire Ndikum-Formekong, sons-in-law : John Nyada (USA), Lasme Diedro (USA), Hippolyte Hegngi Kunde (USA), Jean Marcel Ngoua (YDE), and many others…
Pa JT Ndikum also leaves behind many grand and great-grand children, Nancy Ndikum, Tepe Ndikum, Alain Ndikum, Henry Ndikum, Delphine Edwin Formekong, Yvonne Formekong, Bernard Formekong, Marcel Formekong, Liliane Formekong, Fola Formekong, Nkolo Nyada, Tepe Joseph Nyada, Folla Atia Nyada, Helene Ndikum, Bertrand Ndikum, Makisia Ndikum, Forbasaw Nkamebo, Tchuijo Nkamebo, Bertrand Ngoua, Jenny Della Nchami, Janvier Ndikum, Gladys, Ndikum, Theresa Ndikum, Sonita Ndikum, Tamyka Challa, Ashley Challa,, Alphonse Ndikum, Belong Kunde, Anais Kunde and Roehe Kunde.
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You can read more about Pa in the“life story page"
Pa J.T Ndikum ne Tepeu Ndeko [Temboue Deko] was born in Babadjou, West Province in Cameroon sometime between 1902 and 1910.A reckless motorcylcist(Bendshikin) killed Pa J. T. Ndikum on Tuesday November 24, 2009 as he was walking in his neighborhood in Bamenda.
