Ajeat Kaur Hoon

HOON, Ajeat Kaur
December 10,1933 - January 17, 2025
Ajeat Kaur Hoon, 91, of Victoria, British Columbia passed away peacefully at Royal Jubilee Hospital Victoria, BC, January 17, 2025.
Ajeat, was predeceased by daughter Roni, husband Surgit Singh Hoon, her parents Mohinder Singh and Karm Kaur Beadall (nee Bola), grandparents Sardar Battan Singh (arrived 1913 to Canada) and Rukhman Kaur Beadall (originally from Dhut Kalah, Punjab, India), sister Bindo Kaur Lalari, and sister-in-law Jasbir Kaur Beadall of Victoria, BC. She is survived by her son Dr. Dave Baldev Singh Hoon (professor, Saint John's Cancer Institute, Providence Health System, Santa Monica, CA) and daughter-in-law Hiroko (Oyama) (ex VP Merrill Lynch Asian Affairs)) Hoon (West Los Angeles, CA), Jeat Beadall (brother), Buncy (sister) and Raj (brother-in-law) Pagely, Shidev Lalari (brother-in-law), Ricky Hoon (brother-in-law), 18 nieces and nephews (Beadall, Pagely, Lalari, Dheensaw, Hoon, Bola) and multiple immediate cousins (Beadall, Bimb, Bola families in Canada, USA, and India).
She was born in Victoria, and graduated from Mount View High School, Victoria. She enjoyed a long career, over 25 years as a career librarian starting at the parliament bldg., downtown Victoria library, Esquimalt library, bookmobile, Saanich library, and finally at the Nellie McClung Library in Saanich. She was a librarian in the Greater Victoria Public library system from 1964 to 1990. Ajeat spent hours training librarians and volunteers in the different libraries serving the community. She retired as a senior librarian at Nellie McClung Library. In 1949 she was part of a delegate of Victoria Sikh with her father to meet the prime minister of India J. Nehru.
Her family expresses deepest gratitude given by Royal Jubilee Hospital doctors, nurses, and caregivers, particularly the excellent comfort care by members of the Royal Jubilee Hospital palliative care unit in the final days of her life.
Ajeat gave numerous hours to various volunteer services such as the Victoria Commonwealth Games and Multicultural related events, All One Family, Library community events, and various Sikh church community events. She also volunteered and participated in various events at the Sikh Gurdawaras on Graham St and Topaz Ave, Victoria. She was actively involved in teaching young Sikh students in the Graham St Gurdawara in Punjabi language and music.
She had multiple hobbies which included being an avid reader of novels, flower gardening, making ceramic pottery, knitting/sewing, playing video games, and traveling. She enjoyed traveling around the world such as to Asia, India, Europe, and USA.
Ajeat will be missed by her family and friends who had the privilege of knowing and working with her. She will be known for her generosity and wisdom given to those around her.

Mortuary service will be at the Sequoia Centre at McCall Gardens, Royal Oak, 4665 Falaise Dr, Saanich, BC, V8Y1B4, January 22, 2025, 10AM. On the same day starting at noon religious ceremony at the Punjabi Akali Singh Gurdwara, 2721 Graham St, Victoria. Punjabi lunch and tea will be served all afternoon. Any donations please give on behalf of her to the Sikh Temples Graham St or Topaz Ave.