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Kamran, Homa, and Rana (30 Sep 1998)

SHE'S MISSED VERY MUCH, BUT HER MEMORY IS SO DEAR, THAT IN OUR HEARTS SHE WILL ALWAYS BE NEAR. WITH SYMPATHY

i think of aziz daily [always with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes] and smile at all of the wonderful things i remember her for... the most amazingly strong matriarch a family could ever have...

--Shieva, 01 Oct 1998

Uncle Mahmood (30 Sep 1998)

My mother raised 48 children, spanning over three generations (including one great, great, grand son, Martin Nayeri), all with individual attention and loving care. Of course, each generation remembers her for her certain special qualities. I remember her as a beautiful woman in her prime (30-years old, when my father passed away), who alone in the face of adversities, took us under her wings and raised seven successful children. While others would advise us to leave school and enter into a trade, my mother would insist that we should pursue our education, saying "this is the wish of your father." Whatever we have and whoever we are, are due to her guidance and wisdom. She was our mother as well as our father.

We shall always remember her kindness and her attention to each of us, individually.

Mehdi (30 Sep 1998)

THE BAD NEWS OF MY GRANDMOTHER HAS JUST REACHED ME, I CALLED IRAN AND NOW I AM WRITING TO YOU TO EXPRESS MY SYMPATHY AND MY FEELING OF LOSS OF SOMEONE WHO MEANT THE WORLD TO EVERYONE SHE WAS A SYMBOL OF HOPE AND WARMTH AND WAS A PERSON WE MISS WEATHER WE WANT TO ADMIT IT OR NOT. EVEN THOUGH I WAS AWAY FORM HER FOR A LONG TIME I STILL KEPT IN CONTACT AND MISS HER TILL I DIE.

The first picture of my mother was taken by my father-in-law Mr. Leonard Doll (Hallie's dad) in Isfahan during summer of 1955, when Hallie's parent came to Iran to visit us. My mother and Hallie's parents had a ball during their 9 months of so journ in IRAN. Many interesting stories to be told later.

--Uncle Mahmood, 01 Oct 1998

The place is in North Bowardeh, Abadan, Iran, the date is December 1951 (Soheyla wasn't born yet). Aziz had come to live with us and show Hallie the ropes. Apart from what furniture Oil Company had provided, we had none. Mother took a look, saw our bare living room and then asked Abji-Khanom (your Nan-Joon), to lend us a Persian carpet. Some thirty years later, Aziz came to stay with us in Houston, Texas. She again found our living room to be bare. About a couple of months later we had a call from the Houston Custom Office to go and collect a large Persian carpet. Each morning during touchdown execs, I observe the many knots she had made in the fringes during her short stays with us.

--Uncle Mahmood, 01 Oct 1998

An Uneventful Trip to Bazaar

--Hallie Adibi, 01 Oct 1998

I think Aziz aziz tar az johneman was born in 1907 BC = 1[2]86 solar may be I am wrong please check with Bozorgtarha.

--Mehdi Hakami, 03 Oct 1998

[Shieva and I based our estimate of aziz's birthdate on when Uncle Ali was born; we believed Aziz was 16 when she gave birth to Uncle Ali. Can someone confirm this? -- Farshad]

this is aziz at 30 in "ayvoovneh khoonehyeh mahmood va halkhah dar isfahan" (on the porch of mahmood and halkhah's house in isfahan)

--shieva and farshad, 03 Oct 1998

--Clyde, 25 Feb 1999

I love you Aziz...

--Clyde, 25 Feb 1999

--, 25 Sep 1999

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