OBIT­U­ARY

Nadir James Bakar

April 16, 1939 – Oc­to­ber 19, 2026

Nadir James Bakar was born April 16, 1939 at home in Gas­par­il­lo, Trinidad, West In­dies to James Bakar and Jean­nette (Sub­han), and passed away at home in Clo­vis, Cal­i­for­nia Oc­to­ber 19, 2026 at the age of 87.

Nadir at­tend­ed Gas­par­il­lo Gov­ern­ment School un­til the age of eleven when he won a Gov­ern­ment Ex­hi­bi­tion Schol­ar­ship to at­tend St. Mary’s Col­lege in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad where he grad­u­at­ed in 1958 with Dis­tinc­tion in Physics, Chem­istry, and Math. Dur­ing his High School years there he won the Jern­ing­ham Sil­ver Medal in 1954, and medals for Physics and Chem­istry, as well as the Jern­ing­ham Book Prize. He ran the Pho­tog­ra­phy Club, won sev­er­al prizes in Pho­to­graph­ic Com­pe­ti­tions at St. Mary’s, as well as 1st prize in a Na­tion­al Pho­to Con­test.

Fol­low­ing grad­u­a­tion, the Priests at St. Mary’s Col­lege tu­tored him for 6 months af­ter which he wrote ex­ams as an Ex­ter­nal Stu­dent and achieved a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence de­gree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don, Eng­land in 1959. Nadir stayed on at St. Mary’s Col­lege to teach Physics, Chem­istry, and Math for a year while he ap­plied to Med­ical Schools abroad.

Nadir en­tered Med­ical School at McGill Uni­ver­si­ty, in Mon­tre­al, Que­bec, Cana­da in Sep­tem­ber 1960, won the La­dy Mered­ith prize for Ob/Gyn in 1963, and grad­u­at­ed with his MD in 1964. This was fol­lowed by a year’s In­tern­ship at the Roy­al Vic­to­ria Hos­pi­tal in Mon­tre­al; then a year of Gen­er­al Surgery at Queen Mary Vet­er­an’s Hos­pi­tal in Mon­tre­al; and fi­nal­ly a 3 year Res­i­den­cy in Ob/Gyn di­vid­ed be­tween the Roy­al Vic­to­ria Hos­pi­tal and Queen Eliz­a­beth Hos­pi­tal, in Mon­tre­al, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of West­ern On­tario, in Lon­don, On­tario. Dur­ing the fi­nal year of Res­i­den­cy in Lon­don, On­tario he was a Re­search Fel­low in the De­part­ment of Ob/Gyn, as well as a PhD stu­dent in the De­part­ment of Patho­log­i­cal Chem­istry un­til 1971. He achieved his F.R.C.S.(C) in Ob­stet­rics and Gy­ne­col­o­gy in 1970.

Dur­ing his first year of Res­i­den­cy at the Roy­al Vic­to­ria Hos­pi­tal Nadir met his fu­ture wife, Lois Su­sanne Fenn, and they mar­ried a year lat­er Sep­tem­ber 14, 1967 at the Queen Mary Road Unit­ed Church in Hamp­stead, Que­bec while they both worked at the Queen Eliz­a­beth Hos­pi­tal—Nadir as the Chief Res­i­dent in Ob/Gyn, and Lois a De­liv­ery Room Reg­is­tered Nurse.

They moved from Lon­don, On­tario, back to Mon­tre­al, in March 1971 where Nadir start­ed his Ob/Gyn Prac­tice in the West­mount Med­ical Build­ing, West­mount, Que­bec in April that year. At the same time he joined the teach­ing staff in the De­part­ment of Ob/Gyn at McGill Uni­ver­si­ty, sub­se­quent­ly at­tain­ing the rank of As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor. The cou­ple’s two sons, Scott James and Kevin George were born in 1972 and 1973 re­spec­tive­ly.

Nadir had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to learn I.V.F. at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia in 1984, and lat­er that year start­ed an I.V.F Unit at the Queen Eliz­a­beth Hos­pi­tal in Mon­tre­al. Lat­er in 1984, he stud­ied the re­trieval of eggs us­ing ul­tra­sound in Vi­en­na, Aus­tria.

Nadir chose to re­lo­cate in 1989, and he, Lois, and their two sons, set­tled in Clo­vis, Cal­i­for­nia. Nadir set up an In­fer­til­i­ty Prac­tice in­clud­ing I.V.F. in Fres­no, Cal­i­for­nia un­til a cat­a­stroph­ic ill­ness prompt­ed sud­den re­tire­ment in De­cem­ber 2004.

He main­tained a life-long pas­sion for Pho­tog­ra­phy, Paint­ing, Draw­ing, and An­tique Cars; and was a mem­ber of the San Joaquin Cor­vair Club which is part of the Na­tion­al Cor­sa Club.

Nadir is sur­vived by his wife Lois, son Scott (Lau­ra) of Pleasan­ton, Cal­i­for­nia, son Kevin of Yor­ba Lin­da, Cal­i­for­nia, and three grand­chil­dren: Jes­si­ca, Ju­lian, and Nolen. He is al­so sur­vived by his broth­er Leslie (aka Howard) of Cor­taro, Ari­zona, and broth­er-in-law Ed­ward Fenn of Sur­rey, British Co­lum­bia, as well as many cousins in Trinidad, Eng­land, Cana­da, the Nether­lands, and the U.S.A. He was pre­de­ceased by his par­ents, two old­er broth­ers: Kismat (an in­fant), and Rashard (age 2), aunts and un­cles, and some cousins.

Nadir and Lois have lived a re­strict­ed re­tire­ment life in the same home they pur­chased in 1989, and Nadir has fought valiant­ly to main­tain sta­bil­i­ty in health in spite of many set­backs through­out the years. He passed away qui­et­ly in his sleep, and may he rest in well-de­served peace now, a won­der­ful hus­band and fa­ther, and well-liked by every­one — the most fre­quent­ly men­tioned char­ac­ter­is­tic be­ing his won­der­ful smile.

No ser­vices are planned as per Nadir’s wish­es.