Shrinivas Kamath

SHRINIVAS KAMATH

Iowa City

Shrinivas Hundi Kamath, 84, died unexpectedly Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at home. Services will be held later in July with the time and date to be announced.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

Shrinivas was born April 12, 1932, in Munjeshwar, India, the son of Haripant M. Kamath and Seetha H. Kamath (nee Bhutt). On Dec. 6, 1962, he married Patricia Caldwell of Mount Vernon, Iowa, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.

In addition to his other degrees earned, he received his doctorate of chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science of the University of Bombay.

Shrinivas was a medical researcher at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for many years, and had previously engaged in cancer research at Hahnaman Medical College in Philadelphia. He served as associate professor of pathology/atomic energy research director at the University of Puerto Rico.

After his retirement from the University of Iowa, he worked for several years at Bio-Resources in North Liberty, permanently retiring at age 81.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia of Iowa City; their two children and two grandsons, Sheila Rose Kamath and her husband, Matthew Coles, of Medway, Mass., and Sean Hari Kamath and his wife, Elizabeth, and their sons, Tobias Akira and Simon Ilya, of Redwood City, Calif.; his brother, Madhav (Mark) Kamath of Coralville; his brother-in-law, Roy Caldwell, and his wife, Gloria, of Berkeley, Calif.; and his two nephews, Jayant Kamath and Anant Kamath of Coralville.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Shakutala.

Online condolences may be directed to www.lensingfuneral.com.