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Anglo-Indian leader dead

Staff Reporter

KOLLAM: The former president of the Tangassery branch of the All-India Anglo-Indian Association Zita Fernandez died on Tuesday morning. She was 77 and is survived by her daughter Marietta Fernandez.

Zita Fernandez was president of the Tangassery unit of the association for more than a decade. She also served as English teacher at Infant Jesus Anglo-Indian Boys High School at Tangassery for 33 years. She was seen by her students as a model teacher.

Following the mass emigration of the Anglo-Indian community from Tangassery to Australia during the late Sixties and the early Seventies, it was Zita who played a prominent role in maintaining the Anglo-Indian culture alive in Tangassery.

She was instrumental in organising the gathering of Tangassery Anglo-Indians who had settled in Australia and other parts of the world at Tangassery in December 2000.

She was an authority on the Anglo-Indian history of Tangassery.

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