- Date Of Birth: November 3, 1933
- Date Of Death: April 27, 2016
- State: New Jersey
Lille Phullo Rampersad, 82, wife of the late Ramnarase Rampersad, Principal of Durham Village Hindu School, in Charlieville, entered into peaceful rest on April 27, 2016 in Oradell, NJ. Lille was born in Tacarigua, Trinidad & Tobago in 1933. She was one of 12 children, 7 brothers and 5 sisters.
Lille spent most of her life bringing up her 6 children and was devoted to family life. She will be dearly missed by her children, her friends and neighbors, especially in her home village of Felicity. She was an excellent seamstress learning to sew at an early age which became her passion. She was always proud to have sewn her own wedding dress which was saved until this day. She could just look at the various fashions and delighted in cutting out free form from memory. She sewed all her daughters’ clothes through their teen years, as well as for friends, family and neighbors. Lille was also a wonderful cook and we recall Dan’s friends from Mt. St. Benedict loving when he was dropped off on weekends as they knew Mom had packed food for all of them. Holiday baking was always a real treat and she took great joy in sharing with the neighbors and children.
Lille always said she was not ‘book smart,’ leaving school at 16, but had a lot of ‘street smart’. She practically ran her father’s business from an early age. She had a great sense of pride in everything she did, whether it was running the business, sewing or cooking.
Lille is survived by her six children, Shakuntala (Shaks) Lehmann, Geeta Fletcher (Martin), of the UK, Dan Rampersad (Shama), Sue (Pops) Rampersad, Dani (Cherrie) Wehrmann (Robert) of CT and Radhika (Seeta) Zelhof (Bernie) of FL. She is also survived by 2 grandchildren, 1 great grand-daughter and 7 siblings.
