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Died:
- Harbans Singh, 94, of Kingwood, TX, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Thursday, October 10, 2024.
Harbans was born in Jalalpur, British India (now Pakistan) on January 1, 1930, the fifth of eight children to Dr. Karam Singh, a major in the British Army, and Viran Devi.
In his early years, Harbans and his family traveled all over British India for his father?s work. In 1935, they all miraculously survived a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Quetta. His family later settled in the city of Meerut, shortly before the 1947 partition of India. He attended Meerut College and eventually graduated from the U.P. Veterinary Science College in Mathura. During this time, he met one of his lifelong friends, as well as his lifelong partner, Bhupinder Kaur Batra of Campbellpore (now Attock, Pakistan) whom he married in 1957. One year later, he flew to the United States for the first time on a student visa for Kansas State College. After landing at New York?s Idlewild Airport, he went to visit his friends in Minnesota, who asked him to stay and study with them. Bhupinder then came to the U.S. in 1961 and gave birth to their first daughter the following year.
Harbans completed his Ph.D. in dairy cattle nutrition, receiving his diploma from the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul on December 19, 1964. He accepted research positions with the Hormel Institute in Austin, Minnesota, with the Government of New Zealand in Wellington where their son was born, and with Talladega College in Alabama where their second daughter was born. He spent the remaining 25 years of his career with the United States Department of Agriculture in Lawrence, Kansas and Sanford, North Carolina. When he retired, he moved back to Alabama where his granddaughters grew up.
Perhaps more than anything else, Harbans loved to travel, whether for work or for leisure. He often went on spontaneous road trips with his family and loved to visit India. In his retirement, he went back to many of the cities he once lived in, including Austin, Talladega, Sanford, and Mathura. Most recently, he traveled to his favorite city, Dehradun, India, at the age of 92.
Harbans was a Sikh and spoke seven languages fluently: Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, Balochi, English, and Spanish. He loved his great-grandchildren, whom he called ?the little guys,? and would call his grandson almost every week for nearly six years until he passed peacefully in his sleep.
Harbans will be remembered dearly by all who loved him. He was predeceased by his parents; and six siblings, Satwant, Narinder, Kulwant, Joginder, Kuldeep, and Kuldip. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Bhupinder; a brother, Tarlochan, of Virginia; a brother-in-law, Hanwant, of India; a sister-in-law, Swaran, of India; three children, Neena Davis (Glenn) of Alabama, Davinder Singh (Robin) of Georgia, and Saveena Singh of Connecticut; grandchildren Lisa Wheel (Gavin), Lindy Roper (Ryan), Brittney Davis (Edgar), Tess Reser (Mac), Bradley Singh, Jeremy Singh, and Aaron Winchell; great-grandchildren Hudson, Colton, Eric, and Francesca; and many nieces and nephews who reside in four different continents.
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1930 - 2024 (94 years)
