Mahadzir gets wish to be buried next to mum
KUALA LUMPUR: Late TV personality Datuk Mahadzir Lokman got his wish to be buried next to his mother, who passed away some two years ago.
Mahadzir – better known among his friends as Datuk Dale – was laid to rest beside the grave of his mother Datin Nina Khadijah Abdul Rahman at the Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery here yesterday.
His youngest sister Ida Lokman, 57, said it had always been Mahadzir’s wish to be close to their mother.
“We fulfilled his last wish to always be close to her. He took good care of her when she was alive,” she told mStar Online.
The former TV3 broadcaster, 61, passed away at around 6am on Friday at a hotel in Tanjung Aru, Sabah, after morning prayers.
His remains were brought back here on a flight at around 4.30am yesterday.
Some 200 family members and friends attended the funeral. Among them were Amy of Search, his former colleague Ras Adiba Radzi, artistes DJ Dave and Farouk Hussin.
Mahadzir first became a public figure when he read the English news on TV3 in 1985, the year Malaysia’s first commercial TV station was launched.
In interviews, he was often described as an easygoing man with a pleasant smile and an affable personality that served him well as the host of programmes such as Majalah 3, Sekapur Sirih and Melodi.
Ida said Mahadzir had seemed happy to go to Sabah. “He told me to take care of myself and reminded me that we did not have long to live,” she said.