July 1, 1955 – January 1, 2024.
It is with a heavy heart that we notify you of the passing of Krishna Kumar Gupta on January 1, 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta. A loving soul who put his family first is survived by his mother (T.d. Gupta), his wife (Sita Gupta), four siblings (Ram Kumar, Prabha, Shobha, Abha & their spouses), four children (Anubha, Anuj, Anuraag, Anupam & their spouses), and six grandchildren (Avyaan, Asha, Raahi, Sana, Omisha, and Rishaan). His passion for life, selfless service to others, and dedication to the community were a hallmark of his character until the very end, including through the last two years during his battle with cancer. As the pillar of the Gupta family and the strength for many, he will be missed dearly. His legacy and values will live on through others. “Khush raho swasth raho khoob pragati karo.” Jai Bajrangbali
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, January 5, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. from Edmonton Crematorium & Funeral Home 6403 Roper Road.
The services will be Live Streamed and can be viewed at the link below:
Mausaji…!! You will be missed, the warmth you gave every time we met will be missed.. Your ever smiling face and always helpful nature…. May you be same where ever you are.. Rest in peace. May God give strength to all to over come this loss.. OM Shanti 🙏🙏
दुखद समाचार 🙏
*बड़े दुख के साथ सूचित करना पड़ रहा है कि श्री कृष्णा गुप्ता जी (कनाडा) का आकस्मिक निधन हो गया है.. श्री कृष्णा गुप्ता जी श्री हनुमान सेवा ट्रस्ट के मूर्ति प्रदाता थे. हम श्री हनुमान धाम परिवार की ओर से स्व. कृष्णा गुप्ता जी की आत्मा को श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित करते हैं. तथा श्री हनुमान जी से प्रार्थना करते हैं कि स्व. कृष्णा गुप्ता जी की आत्मा को प्रभू के श्री चरणों में स्थान मिले..*
ओम शांति शांति 🙏🙏
श्री हनुमान सेवा ट्रस्ट (पंजी)
अंजनी ग्राम छोई
रामनगर (नैनीताल) उत्तराखंड
परम स्नेही,समाज व धर्म की सेवा मे सदेव आगे रहने वाले, दानवीर,और हंसमुख व्यक्तित्व के धनी,श्री हनुमान जी के परम भक्त श्री कृष्णा गुप्ता जी आज शरीर के रूप मे हमे छोड गये हे। परंतु वो हमारे साथ सदा बने रहेंगे।
मे व्यक्तिगत रूप से दिवंगत आत्मा को भावपूर्ण श्रधान्जलि अर्पित कर्ता हु और प्रभू से प्रार्थना हे दिवंगत आत्मा को अपने श्री चरनो मे स्थान दे,और परिवार को यह दुख सहन करने की शक्ति प्रदान करे।
ओम शान्ती शान्ती ओम।
आचार्य विजय
संस्थापक अध्यक्ष
श्री हनुमान धाम
भारत।
Our heartiest condolences to Gupta Family.May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Natubhai and Vimlaben Rash Nottingham.🕉Shanti🕉
Anubha.. I am so sorry for your Loss.. Please be strong and take care of Mausi..
Thats so well said Anuj.. Take care of everyone just like him 🙏
A Great personality. Learn a lot from him.
Amit Aery President
Alberta Hindi parishad
My sincere condolences to the family…. So sorry for your loss. My prayers and thoughts are with you.
Om Shanti 🕉️
I’m sorry for your loss. You have my condolences, and you and your family are in my thoughts. Please accept my deepest condolences for you and your family’s loss. om shanti om tauji 🙏
Take care Anupam and Anurag.. He lives on in you.. Please be strong and take care Mausi
Our deepest condolences to Anuj, Maya and all the Gupta family. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. Chetan, Anita, Anish, Aneesha, Shiv & Kish Paw 🕉️🙏🏽🕉️
Our sincere condolences to the Gupta family. May his soul rest in peace. We remember his happy face. Always enjoyed meeting Krishnaji.
Praying for family to go through this very sad event.
🕉 Shanti 🕉
Namastey Bade Tauji We Will Miss You 😢 you Always be in our heart ♥️🙏 jai Shri Ram
As you close your eyes in rest, may you find paradise and a world of eternal life…
We will miss you but never forget you and will remain alive in our hearts.
May your soul Rest in Peace…
Om Shanti.
Praying for strength to all the family during this very difficult time. He has left a legacy of love for family, culture, roots and tradition. Om Shanti 🙏🏽
Our heart goes out to the entire family. Sending all of our love and strength to you all to get through this very difficult time. You all beautifully captured his essence in your speeches dedicated to him—his impact and values instilled in all of us will live on forever. You will be dearly missed by the entire community, Phuphaji. May your soul rest in peace. 🙏🏽
I am so sorry to hear the sad demise of Mr. Krishna Kumar Gupta, President of International and Heritage Languages Association ! Krishna was a great supporter of Bangladesh Canada Association of Edmonton (BCAE) initiative on building Mother Language Monument Square in Edmonton. He visited Bangladesh Center in 2023. I and Nakib Ahmed (Chair, BCAE International Mother Language Monument Committee 2023-2024) attended IHLA board meeting upon his invitation. BCAE will miss a great friend and collaborator.
Rest In Peace Krishna!
Dr. Zahidul Islam, President of BCAE Executive Committee 2023
It’s a huge loss. Sir, you were a true mentor and mentor never really dies. Your work and service to the community will live forever. I’m blessed to have work with you and receive your blessings. Your memory is a treasure for me and I will cherish forever. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Nirmal Malhotra
January 2024 At 3:50Pm
Our sincerely condolences to all the
Gupta family. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
May his soul rest in peacefully
praying for the whole family
To go through this difficult time
‘Mamaaji’ is how I knew him. ‘Mamaaji’ is the Hindi word for maternal uncle. In fact he wasn’t just Mamaaji, he was ‘Bade Mamaaji’, which roughly translates to ‘Big Uncle’ since he was the eldest of 5 children.
We all knew different versions of Mamaaji. He was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather and a friend. However for most of my life, Mamaaji was an ephemeral and mysterious being who I only learned about in stories. I was told he went to university and then travelled overseas to seek a better life for his family. “Where did he go?” I once asked. I was told that he went to some place called Canada – a land of deep winter, snowmen and poutine.
I didn’t have the opportunity to meet Mamaaji properly until I was an adult. Our relationship was fairly uncomplicated in the beginning. I was his nephew who had moved as a young child to a place called Australia – a land of blistering heat, pouring rain and crocodiles. I had finished university and was visiting to attend Anuraag’s wedding to Esther.
As soon as I met him, Mamaaji put his arms around me and welcomed me into his house as if I was one of his own sons. He asked me about my life in Australia, about my work and what I did in my spare time. When I think back to these conversations, I can still see his bright eyes beaming at me as we spoke, and his booming infectious laugh. I learned about his business as a mortgage broker, his life in Canada, and how he managed to pull off the feat of transporting his family home to a nearby farm he purchased.
There’s an old saying ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going’. In the Gupta family, the saying goes a bit more like ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going and quickly call Mamaaji’.
Mamaaji had lived through more than his fair share of hardship. As a young boy he lived through the unfortunate passing of his father. He then pushed on to seek an education, adjust to life in a new country, recover from a nasty car accident and the list goes on. During our conversations, his resilience and grit wasn’t just something to admire, it was something I felt in my heart.
So when I was going through a very difficult time of my own, I listened to our family creed and quickly organised a video call with Mamaaji. Over multiple conversations, he listened. He empathised. He considered all options. And then he gave me his counsel. What I respect most about Mamaaji, is that he never gave up on me, even when I felt close to giving up on myself. Although I made some tough decisions, he kept in touch and he kept me close. I regret that I never got to tell him how much his support and guidance meant to me and how it kept me sane.
After Mamaaji got his diagnosis, we continued to keep in touch. In one of our more recent conversations, I asked Mamaaji about what he remembered of my grandfather. Mamaaji told me that my grandfather was a reserved but industrious family man. He went to university and trained to be an engineer. He was a man of integrity and strong work ethic who put his family first. Somehow there is an uncanny symmetry to this story.
They say in physics that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. I feel the same is true for relationships. Even though my heart sinks in sadness every time I think about the fact that I will never be able to speak to him again, I know that my relationship with Mamaaji doesn’t end here. Instead it is transformed into something different. My memories of Mamaaji, my respect and admiration for him will continue to live on with me.
To honor Mamaaji’s memory, I have been reflecting on the most important lessons I learned from him. One of the lessons I learned is to never give up on people even if they are finding it difficult to find their way. This is his legacy for me that I hope to live up to when raising my own family.
To naani, maamiji and my dear cousins, I can’t imagine the pain that you must be feeling. Even if I am very far away, please know that I am with you in spirit always and wish I could give each one of you a big hug.
Mamaaji, I will miss you.
Dear Mamaaji,
Thank you for everything you’ve done for me and our big family. I won’t forget you.
With lots of love,
Ankit
Heartfelt condolences to our sister Sita, and all family members on this sad demise of Shri Krishna Kumar ji and pray to almighty God to give solace and let his soul rest in peace.
He was very brave, courageous, always calm, cheerful, very religious and friendly person, always there to help anyone as we knew him.
शत शत नमन करते हुये 🙏🙏
श्रीकान्त एवं समस्त परिवार यूनाइटेड किंगडम
Miss you bade bhaiya aapka jaana hamhare parivaar ke lye big loss h bhagwan aap sabhi ko es dukh se ubharne ki himmat de anubha,anuj, anuraag,nd ,anupam aap sabhi ek dusare ka hamasha saath dena aur bhabhi nd buaji ka dhyan rakhna,,bless you baccho,, miss you bhaiya
My heartfelt sympathy and sincere condolence to Mr. Krishna Gupta, an inspirational human being. I pray to god to ease the pain and provide strength for his entire family for their irreplaceable, immense loss in these difficult times.
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Director of IT and Communication & Ex-Principal (Juneli School)
Nepalese Canadian Society of Edmonton (NECASE)
Our sincere condolences to the whole Gupta Family. May God give peace to the departed soul and courge to all of you to bear this loss.
OM SHANTI OM
ASHOK AND SHASHI NARULA. TORONTO
Deepest condolences to Gupta and family. May the soul Attain Moksha.
Louis and Jeannie
I’m at a loss of words. My deepest condolences to the family. May his legacy live on in each of you. Please take care of yourselves and each other.
Condolences to Krishna’s family. Thank you Krishna for your years of service on Alberta Drainage Council, the Cameron Drainage District board, as well as your years of service with Alberta Environment. The Drainage Council board was saddened to hear of Krishna’s passing. His wisdom, knowledge, and advice will be missed.