Abu Dhabi: Joyce Rego (60), wife of Rotarian Robert Rego who passed away on Dec 4 in Abu Dhabi, was laid to rest at the Non-Muslim Graveyard, Baniyas in Abu Dhabi on Friday, December 7.
The funeral mass was held on Friday, at St Joseph’s Cathedral, Abu Dhabi at 12 PM.
Buses were also arranged for the people to travel from St Joseph’s Cathedral to the graveyard and scored of people attended the funeral to pay their last respects to the Good Samaritan.
Joyce and her husband were a very active Mangalorean couple in Abu Dhabi’s St. Joseph Cathedral and would spend most of their time off, at the church and doing social work.
She was the coordinator of Cathecism in the Cathedral for a long time and was the secretary of the Christmas Festival committee and a Eucharistic minister.
She was also actively involved in the Konkani community’s services and was a member of Abu Dhabi’s premiere Konkani organisation KCO – Konkani Cultural Organisation of which her husband was a president.
She is survived by husband Rotarian Robert Rego, sons Jonathan, Joel and Joshua.
