from Derek, Jeanne, Daniel & Hannah Pais , Burlington, MA

Dr Vernon Pais (69), husband of Lois (nee Paoletti) Pais, father of Dr Vernon Junior ( + Sandra) and Edward (+ Mandy), passed away on Thursday August 7, 2008 at Mattapoisett ( Cape Cod), Massachusetts after a prolonged Pancreatic Cancer.

Son of  the late Edward and the late Laura Pais of Babsvern, Balmatta, Mangalore.

Brother of Barbara (+ Irwin Gonsalves) Urwa, Annette (+ Michael Mascarenhas) Bombay, Juliette ( + the late Al Pinto) , Bombay, Joseph (+ June Pinto), Mangalore and Derek (+ Jeanne D’sa), Boston, USA.

A gold medalist from St Aloysius college, (Old) Madras University and Madurai Medical College (1961) was one of the pioneer Mangalorean emigrant to USA in 1963.

WAKE : Friday August 15th from 4-8 PM at Saunders-Dwyer Mattapoisett Home for Funerals, 50 County Road, MATTAPOISETT, MA  :  www.saundersdwyer.com.

FUNERAL : A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Anthony's Church on Saturday, August 16th at 11 AM. Burial will follow in Cushing Cemetery.