October 4, 1941 ~ November 2, 2020
Born in: India,
Resided in:
Augusta, GA
Chandulal L Dodia, 79, of Augusta, Georgia, passed away peacefully on November 2, 2020.
He was born in Rajpipla, India on October 4, 1941, son of the late Lavjibhai and Diwaliben Dodia. He is survived by his wife (Lalita), son (Manish), daughter (Darshana), and five grandchildren that gave him great joy.
Chandulal graduated in 1964 from MS University in Baroda with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He immigrated to the US in 1974, initially living in Chicago, Illinois with his family. After seven years, they moved to Southern California for a brief period and finally settled in Augusta, Georgia where he was a Professional Engineer for almost 25 years at Bechtel Power Corporation.
Chandulal was a man of great faith, honor, and courage. He played many roles as head of the Dodia family: loving husband, giving brother, devoted father, and proud grandfather. His favorite pastimes included reading, playing with his grandchildren, and taking lots of road trips.
After suffering a debilitating stroke in 2005, he was paralyzed on the left side of his body. However, after hard work and immense willpower, he was able to walk (with limitations) again.
He was an avid tennis fan and his favorite player of all time was Rafa Nadal.
Chandulal will be missed dearly for his kindness, compassion,humility, loyalty, and most of all, his genuine smile.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be no public funeral.
Instead, the last rites will be performed by close family members, which will be viewable via livestream on Friday, November 6 at 10:00am
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to one of the following non-profits:
• Hindu Temple Society of Augusta (https://augustahts.org)
• Shakti Mandir Atlanta (http://ambajiusa.org)
• American Stroke Foundation (https://americanstroke.org/donate)
Service will be delayed for a short time, please stand by until the service starts.
Services
Hindu Service: November 6, 2020 10:00 am - November 6, 2020 12:00 pm
Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel
1031 Lawrenceville Hwy.
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
770-277-4550
Our deepest condolences on passing of our dear friend Chandubhai.
God bless his family in these difficult times.
Pravin and Bhanu
Thakkkar Family
Thakkar Family
Our heartfelt condolences
May His Soul Rest In Peace
🕉Shanti🙏
Please accept our condolences and may our prayers help comfort you and family. We’re praying that the light of God’s face shines on you in the darkness of your grief. Dear friend Chandubhai loss deeply saddens us; may our prayers guide his soul to our Vaikunthdham.
Jay Shankar from Uma and Mahesh Gor
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How sorry we are
for your loss.
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. It is great loss of my dear childhood friend Shri Chandubhai, my love and prayers ,peace and comfort to his soul
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believe it. Our deepest condolences and prayers to Dodia Families. God bless your all family we pray for his soul rest in peace 🕉🕉🙏🙏
believe it. Our deepest condolences and prayers to Dodia Families. God bless your all family we pray for his soul rest in peace 🕉🕉🙏🙏
We were honored and delighted to have Uncle at our wedding and loved his vibrant spirit so much. Love and deepest condolences Lalita Auntie, Manish, Darshana and families, from our family.
Chandubhai will be terribly missed along with his smile. He was loved by all of Joshis’.
He will be cherished in our memories forever.
Please accept our sincere condolences.
May his soul rest in peace.
Saroj and Avinash Joshi
Chandubhai will be terribly missed along with his smile. He was loved by all of Joshis’.
He will be cherished in our memories forever.
Please accept our sincere condolences.
May his soul rest in peace.
Our deepest condolences.
He was Very Special and will be Missed by many…
Sending Prayers to You & Your Family.
From- Kishore Chawhan & Family.
Our Deepest Condolences on the passing of our Loving Chandumama.
Sending Prayers to You & Your Family.
From:- Vijay & Daxa
The Rishi Family
Om Shanti 🙏🏼
Amar & Janki Thakkar
Lalitaben, Manish and Darshana, we both will be with you all the time. Chandubhai was our close friend and we had great moments together. Shanta aunti and myself pray God to take good care of him.
Rupa and I offer our condolences to Manish and his family.
So sorry for the loss. He was a fine gentleman. May God give eternal peace to his soul.
Kaushik and Nirmala
Our deepest sympathy for the loss. memories go back to long time ago we when we met you in Los Angeles and then in Augusta GA and worked together at Plant Vogtle. You will be missed …… Our prayers to Almighty Lord Swaminarayan for the family to withstand the loss and give peace & courage.
Extremely sorry to hear Chandu Bhai demise. He is a wonderful human being and a good friend. We are so lucky to known you both for last 30 years. We are going to miss him dearly. RIP.
We are heartbroken at the passing of our dearest family friend Chandubhai. Our deepest sympathy to the Dodia family. God bless you all and hope his soul is resting in peace. I’m Shanti 🙏
Pankaj had, Hemlata and Thakkar family
May the good Lord Shiva brings you and your family much needed peace during this sad time. 🙏🙏
How sorry we are
for your loss.
Please accept our
Deepest Condolences.
🙏Jai sri krishna 🙏
Namaste, 4 we its great great lost of one of most handsome & humble person around us.
May II OUM II place him in most respectful & wonderful places in his next life.
II OUM II
I am sorry for the loss. We lost a great man, I have met fua a couple of times and Irecollect his guidence and his smile. We will miss him. May my condolences bring you comfort and may my prayers ease the pain of this loss.
Chandu fua was a great soul who has dedicated all his life in helping others. It is difficult to think that he is no more.
Let us join hands and pray for his journey to heaven.
Mittal Rakesh Waghela and family.
Chandufua was a great soul who has dedicated all his life in helping others. It is difficult to think that he is no more.
Let us join hands and pray for his journey to heaven. Om Shanti 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Let us join hands and pray for his journey to heaven.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Our deepest condolences to Lalitaben and entire Dodia family Chandubhai will be missed dearly
Our heartfelt condolence to Chandubhai’s Family. Chandubhai’s family was the first Gujarati Family we met when we moved to Augusta in 8/1983. We had great time together carpooling to Knoxville. He was always cracking jokes and laughing , enjoying life.
We used to see him almost everyday in YMCA. even though with some physical limitations, he was always smiling and talking about good events. Great positive attitude.
May god bless his atma. We all miss him very dearly.
May god give strength to Lalitaben, Manish Family and Darshana Family to bear this loss.
Vijay and Bindu Mehta, Martinez, GA
Our deepest condolences to Lalitaben and entire Dodia family Chandubhai will be dearly missed
Chandu, my elemetry school(5th grade) classmate all the way up to college in Vadodara and a close friend. Good hearted, caring and loving individual. Thank u for time we spent and all the good memories. I will miss u my friend. Rest in peace. God bless all.
Parmatma emni aatma ne shanti aape. Hari Om🙏.
Jai Shree Krishna.
God help You and Your Family to get through this difficult time.
Accept My Sincere Condolences on Your Loss.
Om Shanti.
God bless his soul. We pray God to give strength to the family to survive the loss. Chandubhai will be missed.
Rajanikant and Vasu Patel
No words can describe
How sorry we are
for your loss.
Please accept our
Deepest Condolences.
🙏🙏🙏
Shantilal Chauhan
Laxmi Chauhan
Umesh Chauhan
Priti Chauhan
We want to express our condolences to Lalita Ben, Manish and Darshana on loss of our dear Chandubhai. A great person
With wealth of knowledge and wisdom.
We regularly,like many friends met at Augusta YMCA. He was friendly to all members and talk to strangers with his wisdom and advice.
As a member of HTS his presence will be missed by all.
He always volunteered to give me a simple message about how to be nice to everyone.
Chandu bhai you will always be in our prayers.
Kailash and Prem
We will miss you a lot Fua. I could feel his warmth and love for me everytime I talked to him. We wish this can be undone but it is God’s wish.
Miss you a lot Fua
We are so sad to hear of Uncle’s passing. Our heartfelt condolences to all the family for your great loss.
Sending our condolences and praying for peace and comfort for the family. May his soul rest in peace. Lee and Sanjna Grose.
Jai Shree Krishna!
We are saddened to hear about your loss. Remembering all the memories and wonderful times we spent together as family, whenever you all visited us, fills me with joy.
Wishing you courage, strength and love to help you through this loss. Chandulal will stay ageless in the memories of those who loved him.
Jai Shree Krishna!
We deeply regret the passing of Chandubhai. Our condolences to you and the family. Ravi worked at the same site with Chandubhai for nearly 20 years, Sree and Manish were roommates at school. His loss is felt deeply within our family. We pray that Almighty bestows strength and courage to carry on through these difficult moments and to knowing how blessed we were to have him in our lives.