Topic: Obituary

BOSTON  — Ambassador Rouben Shougarian passed away on April 21 after a stroke, his family reported. “It is with great sorrow that we announce that our loving father and husband,[...]

CHICAGO — Businessman and philanthropist Armand Orie Norehad, age 85, passed away on Saturday, April 11, 2020. He was born on June 16, 1934 to Christine (née Kashian) and Onnig[...]

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. – Philanthropist Artemis Nazarian passed away on April 9 at the age of 88 as a result of complications from coronavirus infection. She was well known to[...]

WINCHESTER, Mass. — Jack Marshall Medzorian, the former Sbarabed of Ararat Lodge No. 1 in Boston, passed away on April 2, 2020 at the age of 93. Medzorian was born[...]

PARIS (Deutsche Welle/Daily Mail) — A French former cabinet minister and former president of the Parisian Haut-de-Seine administrative district has become one of the first high-profile politicians to die of[...]

By Daniel Lewis KRAKOW, Poland (New York Times) — Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer and conductor whose modernist works jumped from the concert hall to popular culture, turning up in soundtracks for[...]

BURLINGTON, Mass. — Richard Martin “Dick” Kazanjian died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family and friends on February 29. Born on September 8, 1935, in Stoneham, to John[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — Historian, researcher and author Samvel Karapetyan, 58, passed away on February 27. Born in 1961, Samvel Karapetyan was an expert in medieval architecture, specializing[...]

MOSCOW (Armenpress) — The chief designer of Russia’s multifunctional fighter-bomber Sukhoi-34, Rollan Martirosov, died at 84, on February 28, a source in the aircraft building industry told TASS. Martirosov was born[...]

DEARBORN, Mich. — Longtime journalist and regular contributor to the Mirror-Spectator Mitchell “Mitch” Kehetian died on February 22, at the age of 89 at Beaumont Hospital. Born in Detroit on[...]