"He was a hero through and through. There couldn't have been a better place for him to lay to rest."
One of the women who had time to flee was Amardeep's mother, who called the police using her mobile phone while hiding from the gunman in cupboard.
Relatives said Mr Kaleka was widely regarded as the founder of the Oak Creek temple that was attacked by Page, a disgraced former US army soldier and racist, who is widely thought to mistaken bearded and turban-wearing Sikhs for Muslims.
Mr Kaleka's resistance slowed the attacker just long enough for the women preparing the temple's traditional post-worship afternoon meal to hide in a pantry and for the children attending Sunday school downstairs to escape the massacre.
The gunman had already shot at least one person in the temple's car park. He then went on to kill six Sikh worshippers - including Sadwant Singh Kaleka - before going back outside to ambush the police when he heard approaching sirens.
He was then "put down" in a gunfight after severely wounding one police officer.
Mr Kaleka and his family came to the United States from India in 1982. He built a successful business, and devoted every extra dollar he earned into building the Oak Creek temple.
Parishioners described him as the kind of man who, if you called him at two in the morning to say a light had gone out at the temple, would be there at 2:15 am to change the bulb.
"As I saw the picture of the man who took away my father's life - you look at his face and it's full of hollow emptiness - a dark void," Amandeep Kaleka said after police released the photo of Wade.
"I feel a lot of sadness towards that individual. I'm not going to replace it with anger."
In stark contrast, Page, 40, was a disgraced soldier, in the army from 1992 to 1998, before being discharged for a "pattern" of misconduct including drunkenness and going Awol
Pictures show him heavily tattooed. Neighbours said that he had a tattoo commemorating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on his right arm, a common indicator of far-Right and anti-Muslim affiliations.
On Monday, the police said that they were seeking a second "person of interest". Officers want to speak to a man who was seen filming groups of Sikhs outside the temple after the attack. The man was captured on film by local news media and he too has a "9/11/01" tattoo on his upper right arm.
Mourners cry outside the scene of a mass shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin (Reuters)
Wade shot dead six people and injured three others, including a police officer, before he was shot dead by armed police.
Officially no motive has been disclosed, but yesterday it emerged that Page, whose name was released by US Attorney James A. Santelle, is a former army officer who fronted a neo-Nazi white supremacist band.
Page's band was called End Apathy and had recently given an interview to a local record label website in which he spoke about his "frustration that we have the potential to accomplish so much more as individuals and a society in whole [sic]."
Page's rampage comes just two weeks after James Holmes murdered 12 people and injured 51 others after opening fire in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado during a screening of new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.
It was reported that he had purchased the 9mm handgun used in the rampage legally from a store in Wisconsin.
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