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In life, they called Bob Naka the ghostbuster: If you needed something done, who were you gonna call? “Bob would help anybody, anytime,” said wife Shauna this week, remembering the man she married and raised two children with.
“He was a very communityminded guy and really kind to other people.” A Kelowna original and a man whose funeral attracted some 1,000 people after he passed away in 2014, Naka’s reputation for helping people didn’t end with his death. Years before he died, Bob and Shauna had discussed organ donation and both were
registered organ donors with B.C. Transplant. “We had discussed it many times over the years,” said Shauna. “He just thought it was kind of a waste not to be an organ donor. He said if you could help someone else out when you couldn’t help yourself….he would say that’s the right thing to do.” Bob Naka passed away in July
2014 at the age of 68. He was working on the family farm when he suffered a heart attack. After a week on life support, it was clear he wasn’t going to survive, Naka passed away. And in death, he continued to help people: His kidneys, pancreas, liver and corneas were all donated.
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