Rod Davis Family Fund

Hello Friends and Acquaintances and Well wishers and Blessings Givers!

Our friend Rod (Roderick) Davis has died at the age of 76.

Please note corrected service times for this week as well as his obituary:
The Davis Family will host events at Chapel of the Chimes:
1. Viewing On Thursday 03/12 : 7pm - 10:00 pm,
2. Service On Friday 03/13 : 10:30am -12:30pm and
3. Cremation On Friday 03/13 : 1:30 pm
Thursday and Friday events are listed here with Rod’s obituary:
https://oakland.chapelofthechimes.com/obituaries/Roderick-Davis-3/

 Chapel of the Chimes 
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611

A dear husband, father, friend, 32 year Siddha Yoga Mediation volunteer, 30 year Navy Veteran (Vietnam War Veteran), and 2020Census and VA employee left the world this week on Thursday, February 27 at Summit Hospital in Oakland.
He was working long days, from early morning with Census2020, then taking his daughter to competitive gymnastics before other work to support his family. 

Because of his sweet humility, many of us did not know that Rod was a retired US Navy Master Chief Petty Officer, the highest enlisted rank, and received a Bronze Star with Combat V, a Purple Heart, and many others medals and accommodations.

Deborah texted me on her dad's phone:  "Please tell the people about my dad... tell them he was a hero and he did everything for me...please." She is seen here (front and center in the video opening), this Sunday at Haas Pavilion, UC Berkeley, dancing with her Head Over Heels team. She is a strong young girl, three days after her dad's death.

When he came back from a work trip to Vietnam many years ago, he was so happy to have married his beautiful wife Uyen and to be starting a family soon after.

When he fell ill with the flu, his thoughts were only of his young family and their happiness and providing for them. When he arrived for his weekly volunteer work at the local Oakland Siddha Yoga Meditation Center this Sunday, he said he would have rested but was not sure who would cover his shift. He was that stalwart and unrelenting in his sense of duty, despite our discouraging his working while sick. When a group of us heard from his daughter Deborah that morning at breakfast, that he had veered off the road a few days earlier while driving her to her team practice in Emeryville, we decided to start this fund, at that time to support his recovery, and received his blessings to do so. His wife Uyen does not speak English and works near their home in Oakland.

He had a huge sense of duty to his family and loved them very much and wanted them to prosper and thrive. All funds collected here will go to:
 - daily expenses,
 - drivers to fill in when friends of the family arent able to drive Deborah to gymnastics team practice
 - tuition and related expenses for Deborah's Level 7 competitive gymnastic team at Head Over Heels in Emeryville (yes! she is only a few levels away from Level 10/Elite Level)
 - we request funds in the next few weeks for short term expenses, and then thereafter for longer term expenses that directly support the family
 - if, by some boon of great good fortune, there are funds for a college saving account for Deborah, it would have meant the world to Rod to support her higher education as well.
 
On Deborah's 10th birthday last year in November 24, 2019, Rod asked if I could take Deborah to the snow some time since he and Uyen work on weekends. We would like to carry out Rod's request.

The family, including his step son Cong, Cong's wife Hong, and Rod's brother CR and his family are in disbelief and shock, and are so touched and amazed that we would think of supporting them in their need and in their loss.