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The Tennessee South Sudanese Community lost a Good Man!
Nashville, TN (USA) -- South Sudanese Community in Middle Tennessee lost a great fellow and a community member through a short illness after he returned from Africa. Wour Chuol Gatluak (50) died Sunday, February 21, 2021, a few weeks after he came back from visiting his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Wour was an extraordinary man with a decent heart and a friend to many people in the community. He was a beloved father to his wonderful children he cared for in Ethiopia.
Fathers are someone to look up to, someone to follow, someone to admire, someone to be proud of and someone to brag about, someone to hold and someone to cry with, someone to learn from and someone to respect, someone to listen and talk to, someone to try and impress, sometimes rebel against, and most of all, someone with whom to share everything this wonderful life has to offer. Wour Chuol Gatluak was that someone!
We are incredibly grateful and happy that we can stand today and publicly tell the world in general what we knew of our wonderful cousin and beloved father of his amazing children he left behind. Wour Chuol Gatluak (“Kuey” or “Meter”), as he was known, was a gifted and remarkable person. For his children, Wour was everything and indeed a big loss, not only because he was the father who provided wisdom and counsel to his young children, but he was likewise the only means for their survival financially.
While in Ethiopia, Wour paid for their housing, food, school fees, and medical needs, as well as clothes and other family wishes that only a responsible parent can afford. Losing him is not solely a loss for a family pillar and a role model, but a loss for survival means, especially for his innocent children. It is also a great loss for the caring mother and young wife who will forever struggle to nurture kids with no father while she has no financial income except a future willing from a Giving God!
To say we loved Wour would be an understatement - and to say we are going to miss him would be an even greater understatement as well. We cannot begin to imagine not having Wour as a cousin, a community and a church elder, as well as a father on the end of a phone providing assistance to his children, advising them how they can behave and listen to their beloved mother Nyayan Yien while he was here on the other side of the world working very hard sometimes two jobs to ensure he afforded their necessities.
Wour was a hard worker, compassionate towards everyone in the community. Even though nobody can be perfect; however, our cousin was as close to being the maximum perfect person to anyone who had known him. He was easily adapted to members of any community because of his incredible personality and character. His love was unconditional, and this is something we will cherish from his character – and take with us forever as a lasting legacy. His kindness and generosity will be remembered by all who had the pleasure of knowing him personally while alive.
We would like to thank everyone in advance for their willingness to help us help his children during this difficult time, as well as for the burial expenses. Your financial contributions will dearly address short and long-term needs for his burial costs in addition to the necessities of his beloved children. It is through time like this one that people with problems always know who stood with them during their difficult moments. This is our difficult moment as a family and community, especially the children he left alone with no means and hope to endure this challenge after their only hope and father had gone untimely. His children may wonder why God allowed misery to their life by taking away their only father and meaning for their existence? But again no one has an answer for a question like this one, but what we know everyone can do… is give them a little hope by showing that we can stand with and care for them!
Late Wour Chuol Gatluak was the firstborn in the family of Chuol Gatluak Thong. He struggled a lot like other South Sudanese refugees who came to America or live elsewhere in refugee camps. He arrived in the USA as a refugee in the early 2000s. He acquired English Language skills and attended college though he did not graduate because of a family commitment as the sole person whose immediate and extended families depended on him for their financial assistance in refugee camps and in other places in Africa where families dispersed.
Mr. Wour got sick when he visited his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as stated above. After he experienced Covid-19 related symptoms though he was tested in Addis Ababa negative with Covid-19, Mr. Wour sustained unstopped cough, fatigue, congestion, shortness of breath, high fever, and likely symptoms, and because of that, Mr. Wour returned to America to attend Medical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was admitted and treated for a month until he returned to be with Kuoth Nhial (God of Heaven) on Sunday, February 21, 2021. Wour left a wife and three beautiful children (15, 13, and 4 years old!). His burial service is scheduled for March 27, 2021.
We are trying to raise $20,000.00, $12,000.00 for funeral expenses, and $8,000.00 to support his wife and children.
If you would prefer to donate using cashapp, please send donations to $GatluakTThach, $BolLPuk, or $bothluak.
For more information, please contact:
1. Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach [phone redacted]
2. Mr. Bol Lam Puk [phone redacted]
3. Mr. Both Reat Yioy [phone redacted]
4. Mr. Bith Deng Tut [phone redacted]
Nashville, TN (USA) -- South Sudanese Community in Middle Tennessee lost a great fellow and a community member through a short illness after he returned from Africa. Wour Chuol Gatluak (50) died Sunday, February 21, 2021, a few weeks after he came back from visiting his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Wour was an extraordinary man with a decent heart and a friend to many people in the community. He was a beloved father to his wonderful children he cared for in Ethiopia.
Fathers are someone to look up to, someone to follow, someone to admire, someone to be proud of and someone to brag about, someone to hold and someone to cry with, someone to learn from and someone to respect, someone to listen and talk to, someone to try and impress, sometimes rebel against, and most of all, someone with whom to share everything this wonderful life has to offer. Wour Chuol Gatluak was that someone!
We are incredibly grateful and happy that we can stand today and publicly tell the world in general what we knew of our wonderful cousin and beloved father of his amazing children he left behind. Wour Chuol Gatluak (“Kuey” or “Meter”), as he was known, was a gifted and remarkable person. For his children, Wour was everything and indeed a big loss, not only because he was the father who provided wisdom and counsel to his young children, but he was likewise the only means for their survival financially.
While in Ethiopia, Wour paid for their housing, food, school fees, and medical needs, as well as clothes and other family wishes that only a responsible parent can afford. Losing him is not solely a loss for a family pillar and a role model, but a loss for survival means, especially for his innocent children. It is also a great loss for the caring mother and young wife who will forever struggle to nurture kids with no father while she has no financial income except a future willing from a Giving God!
To say we loved Wour would be an understatement - and to say we are going to miss him would be an even greater understatement as well. We cannot begin to imagine not having Wour as a cousin, a community and a church elder, as well as a father on the end of a phone providing assistance to his children, advising them how they can behave and listen to their beloved mother Nyayan Yien while he was here on the other side of the world working very hard sometimes two jobs to ensure he afforded their necessities.
Wour was a hard worker, compassionate towards everyone in the community. Even though nobody can be perfect; however, our cousin was as close to being the maximum perfect person to anyone who had known him. He was easily adapted to members of any community because of his incredible personality and character. His love was unconditional, and this is something we will cherish from his character – and take with us forever as a lasting legacy. His kindness and generosity will be remembered by all who had the pleasure of knowing him personally while alive.
We would like to thank everyone in advance for their willingness to help us help his children during this difficult time, as well as for the burial expenses. Your financial contributions will dearly address short and long-term needs for his burial costs in addition to the necessities of his beloved children. It is through time like this one that people with problems always know who stood with them during their difficult moments. This is our difficult moment as a family and community, especially the children he left alone with no means and hope to endure this challenge after their only hope and father had gone untimely. His children may wonder why God allowed misery to their life by taking away their only father and meaning for their existence? But again no one has an answer for a question like this one, but what we know everyone can do… is give them a little hope by showing that we can stand with and care for them!
Late Wour Chuol Gatluak was the firstborn in the family of Chuol Gatluak Thong. He struggled a lot like other South Sudanese refugees who came to America or live elsewhere in refugee camps. He arrived in the USA as a refugee in the early 2000s. He acquired English Language skills and attended college though he did not graduate because of a family commitment as the sole person whose immediate and extended families depended on him for their financial assistance in refugee camps and in other places in Africa where families dispersed.
Mr. Wour got sick when he visited his family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as stated above. After he experienced Covid-19 related symptoms though he was tested in Addis Ababa negative with Covid-19, Mr. Wour sustained unstopped cough, fatigue, congestion, shortness of breath, high fever, and likely symptoms, and because of that, Mr. Wour returned to America to attend Medical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was admitted and treated for a month until he returned to be with Kuoth Nhial (God of Heaven) on Sunday, February 21, 2021. Wour left a wife and three beautiful children (15, 13, and 4 years old!). His burial service is scheduled for March 27, 2021.
We are trying to raise $20,000.00, $12,000.00 for funeral expenses, and $8,000.00 to support his wife and children.
If you would prefer to donate using cashapp, please send donations to $GatluakTThach, $BolLPuk, or $bothluak.
For more information, please contact:
1. Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach [phone redacted]
2. Mr. Bol Lam Puk [phone redacted]
3. Mr. Both Reat Yioy [phone redacted]
4. Mr. Bith Deng Tut [phone redacted]
Organizer
Gatluak Thach
Organizer
Nashville, TN