Another Kenyan dies in her Kansas Apartment
By Our Reporter, Ajabu Africa News
TOPEKA, Kan, NOVEMBER 5_SHOCK has again gripped the Kenyan community in the United States after another one of their own, Edah Chemkung Tawarar was found dead in her apartment in Topeka, Kansas.
It is the second similar death within the Kenyan community in the USA in two weeks, after a 25 year old Kenyan man, Andrew Ndungu Muchai died in his apartment last week in Baltimore, Maryland.
Numerous other Kenyans from different states have been found dead in their apartments over the last one year.
In Topeka, Kansas, Chemkung Tawarar started experiencing severe stomach pain, according to a close friend Edward Wanjohi.
He said the deceased then went to St. Francis hospital in Topeka. The same day her supervisor insisted that she had to do her shift.
Wanjohi told AjabuAfrica that later that night Tawarar’s room-mate found her dead in her room in the middle of the night.
Salome Ngure, another friend of the late Tawarar, expressed shock at the death, and indicated that the late Tawarar had been going through a tough time and was very much stressed-out for an extended period.
"Nobody seemed to know what was happening in her life but she was quite depressed", said Ngure , a mother of two .
Ngure said that many Kenyans in Kansas did not seem to know the late Tawarar and she only happened to meet her when Tawarar was working at a location where Ngure brings her baby for baby sitting.
" I met her when she was working as a back up baby sitter at my baby sitter's place", Ngure told Ajabu Africa.
Ngure added that Kenyans in Kansas were really shocked a few months ago when a Kenyan man died in the same area and his body got stuck at a funeral home for luck of funds.
"We hope our friends and Kenyans from everywhere can really help us fund raise to transport this body back home", said the concerned mother of two.
She added that the few friends Tawarah had are doing everything possible to get the money for transporting the body back home to her family in Nairobi, Kenya, but they were far short of the needed amount.
The late Tawarar did not have any relatives at all in the US.
The late Edah Chemkung Tawarar of Topeka, Kansas. Photo from family file |
“An autopsy has been done and the results are pending. She is in the funeral home and her family’s wish is to take her body back to Kenya. We are trying to raise about $10,000. We hope to send her body within two weeks,” a friend who preferred to remain anonymous said.
Tawarar was born on July 31, 1976 in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the daughter of Sammy Chemwey and Roselyne Chemwey originally from Toroso locaton, Cheptais Division in Mt. Elgon District. She was the only girl in a family of five other brothers.
She attended our lady of Mercy primary school in South B, Sacho High School and Baraton University for one year. She then came to the USA in 1998 to attend college at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. In 1999, she moved to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
“She dedicated her life providing social work until the last day of her death,” another close friend said.
“We will cherish the memories we shared with her. We humbly request all our friends to donate funds to help transport her body back to Kenya.”
Friends and well wishers in Topeka told Ajabu Africa that a memorial service and fund raising ceremony will be held this Sunday November 8, 2008 at Brook wood Covenant Church 3601 SW 33rd street Topeka KS 66614 at 3PM.
“For those who are not able to make it to the memorial service can deposit their contributions to:}
Bank of America (opened in Irving Texas) account name:
Comfort Holding :Routing no: 111000025
Account Number: 4810327092.
Friends and relatives said the body of Tawarar has been moved to Brennan Mathena funeral home in Topeka.
For more information, call :
Edward Wanjohi: ( 785) 969-2807
Sally Ngure : (785) 845-7980
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