Dr. Shem Arungu Olende
Beloved Son, Brother, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Patriarch, Uncle, Shemeji, University Lecturer, Lover of Learning, Scientist, Pioneering Engineer, Long-Serving United Nations Official, Art Connoisseur, Music Aficionado, Mentor, Gentleman and Friend.
With broken hearts and unwavering faith, we announce the death of our Baba, Dr. Shem Arungu Olende. Wuod Lukio Olende and Priscilla Alando mose nindo of Kusa, Nyakach. Owadgi the Nyindodos and Olendes, Or to the Ombakas and Malits, and Nyawana to many.
Baba is survived by his adoring wife Rose, and children: Ken, Stephen, Conrad, Achieng’, Sharon, Olende Jr., and grandson: Asa Arungu.
We are tremendously grateful for your prayers, visits, calls, messages and contributions during this tragic time. God bless you, we appreciate your support.
We will hold a private, family burial for Baba and have a memorial service to celebrate his life at a later date.
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it is with profound shock and sorrow to learn that Dr. Shem Arungu passed on several years ago. Dr, Arungu was the classmate of my Uncle, the late Francis Nyawalo Yongo. Before I flew out of Kenya, I had close contact of his family courtesy of his brother in-law, The late Dr. Oki Ombaka, whom I served as his personal Assistant.
My brief knowledge of Dr, Arungu, is that I have known him as a passionate and towering International scholar especially in the realm of Engineering, an astute academician of immense Intelligencia, I further knew him as a top UN diplomat having been posted in the department of Nuclear Control Programs in Vienna, Austria.
The Late Arungu, was tailor blazer of resourceful academic freedom in full realization of the thoughtful achievement not only from the Nyanza region where he hailed from which is worldly renown as academic reservoir, but to the entire caption of the academic world,