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From Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Walsall

The sangat at Sri Guru Singh Sabha mourn the loss of Gurpreet Singh Dhaliwal deeply. He served this congregation with dedication and love for many years. His langar fed thousands and his committee work laid foundations we will benefit from for a generation. May Waheguru Ji bless his soul with peace and grant strength to Harpreet, Navneet, Ravinder and Amrit in this time of sorrow. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.
Khalid Rahman · 8 Jun 2026
Memory

Football on Sundays

Gurpreet was devoted to Wolverhampton Wanderers with a consistency and good humour that the club did not always deserve. He went to home matches for twenty years. He took Navneet for the first time when she was nine and she immediately became more interested in the pies than the football, which he found hilarious and slightly disappointing. He kept going. He watched them win the championship in 2024 on television at home, standing up for the last ten minutes, which was as demonstrative as he ever got about sport.

Football on Sundays
Harpreet Kaur · 8 Jun 2026
Memory

He Fixed My Boiler

I know this is a small thing against everything else people are saying but it is the kind of thing that tells you who someone is. My boiler failed in January, the coldest week. I mentioned it at work in passing and Gurpreet drove over that evening, looked at it for twenty minutes, found the part, came back the next morning and fixed it. He refused money. He brought naan bread for my children. He said the naan was from Harpreet and the repair was from him and both were free of charge. That is who he was.
Khalid Rahman · 8 Jun 2026
Memory

The Infrastructure Project

I worked with Gurpreet on the Wolverhampton ring road drainage scheme in 2019 and he was the best engineer on the project — not the loudest, but the one whose assessments you could rely on. He had the quality of saying exactly as much as was needed and no more. When something was wrong he said so clearly and without drama. When something was right he said that too. It made him easy to work with and it made the project better. I did not know him well outside work but I am very glad I knew him in it.
Ravi Venkataraman · 8 Jun 2026
Memory

The Langar Kitchen

He ran the langar kitchen for five years and he cooked every Sunday he was not travelling for work. He was up at four to have the dal ready by seven. He never delegated the seasoning to anyone else because he had strong opinions about it and was not prepared to compromise. After the new kitchen was finished he stood in the middle of it for about five minutes and did not say anything. I knew he was very pleased. He said "well, that'll do" and then went and washed up.

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Harpreet Kaur · 8 Jun 2026
Eulogy

From Harpreet

I have been trying to work out what to say and I keep coming back to the same things, which are the ordinary ones. The way he made tea in the morning and brought mine before his own. The way he watched the girls at their music lessons with an expression of absolute, unironic pride that he made no attempt to conceal. The way he stood in the Gurdwara kitchen and stirred dal for three hours and called it a privilege. He was not complicated. He would have found that description funny. He knew what he believed and he lived accordingly, and he did not see any particular virtue in this because he thought it was simply what you did if you paid attention. He was more devout than he was vocal about it, which is the right way round. He was my best friend for twenty-eight years. I have no way to express what that means and no intention of trying. The girls will tell you who he was. They are like him in all the ways that matter. Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.
Harpreet Kaur · 8 Jun 2026
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