Greg Bekarian is the loving son of Zohrab and Maral Bekarian. Growing up amongst his three sisters Lucy, Lenna and Taline, he was definitely a precious one-and-only son and brother. Outside his family life, he was involved in everything church, school and community related. After attending and graduating from the ARS Day School and the…
Matthew Manoukian
Matthew Manoukian (1983-2012) February 22, 1983 – August 10, 2012 Captain Matthew Patrick Manoukian was born February 22, 1983 to Socrates Peter Manoukian and Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian. He grew up in Los Altos with younger brothers Michael and Martin. He attended St. Nicholas school (graduated 1997) and St. Francis High School (graduated 2001). He attended and…
Avedis Porpossian
1961 – 2011 Avedis Porpossian, born on October 23rd, 1961 a husband, a father, a brother, an uncle, a friend and unger left us all suddenly on April 14th, 2011. Avo was born in Beirut, Lebanon and grew up in Boorj Hamoud where he served the Armenian community through the dangerous environments of the Lebanese…
Taline Yacoubian
Talin Yacoubian (1969-2010) “Taline always encouraged her sons to be part of the community, they were in all the plays,” “She always volunteered her time and was always committed.”
Ashod Khanamirian
Ashod Khanamirian (1965 – 2009) Ashod Khanamirian was born in Beirut Lebanon. He joined Homenetmen organization as Scouts at age of 6 and remained a loyal member until his passing away in 2009. In 1983 he joined the ARFYOL’s Beirut Chapter until 1997, when he moved to United States and lived in Fort Lauderdale Florida….
Sarkis Ghazarian
Sarkis Ghazarian (1968-2009) Sarkis Ghazarian, known to family and friends as “Sako”, was born on November 3rd, 1968, in Beirut, Lebanon. As a young man, he graduated as Valedictorian from the Souren Khanamirian College. Unfortunately, given the times in Lebanon, he was unable to attend university, and instead took responsibility over his father’s business and successfully…
Varuj Arkarakas
Varuj Arkarkas 1958-2009 Our very dear friend, Varuj, passed away at the prime age of 50. Varuj was a passionate man who enriched the lives of all who came into contact with him. He excelled in everything he did, whether in business or sports he was a true leader. He played competitive soccer, basketball, volleyball…
Armenian Air Crash Victims
Viken Ajamian
Viken Ajamian (1942-2009) 16 January 1942 – 18 August 2009 Viken Ajamian was born in Aleppo, Syria on January 16, 1942. At 8 months old, Viken lost his father who left behind 5 children Azad, Evelyn, Diran, Aida and Viken. He received his elementary education at the Armenian school in Aleppo and continued his education at…
Seta Degirmenjian
Seta Degirmenjian (1941-2009) Seta was born on March 29, 1941 in Aleppo, Syria. In 1958 she married Kevork Degirmenjian, and a few years later was blessed with daughters Varti and Ani. While being a loving mother and wife, Seta was drawn into the Armenian community through her love of singing. She sang at the church and…
Jean Nahabedian
Jean Nahabedian (1929-2009) Jean Nahabedian was born in Aleppo, Syria on January 20th, 1929. As a child, he grew up in a home with his mother, father, older brother Dikran and older sister Noémi. In the year 1957, he married his wife of 52 years, Anayis Kevorkian. Together they had two wonderful and beautiful children. Their…
Garen Divarci
Garen Divarci (1991-2009) Born on November 6, 1991 in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the first child of proud parents Hagop and Taline Divarci. The parents could never have asked for a more wonderful son. Everything he did made them and the grandparents proud. From his earliest days at home, sleeping soundly through the night, until his…
Diran Terzian
Diran Terzian (1912 – 2009) Diran Terzian was born in the historic city of Erzerum in June 25, 1912. In 1915, at the age of 3, he managed to escape the Armenian Genocide but sadly the majority of his family lost their lives in the Genocide. Mr. Terzian was rescued by a kind individual and…
Dikran Nahabedian
Dikran Nahabedian (1921-2009) Dikran Nahabedian was born in 1921 in Aleppo, Syria. He belongs to the generation of Armenians born in exile immediately after the Genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and endured the entire physical and emotional hardship destined to his generation. Dikran was the 1st born to a father…
Alidz Mardirossian
Alidz Mardirossian (1956-2009) Born to Araxi and Hagop Kassardjian in Beirut, Lebanon, Alidz was the first of four children; her sister Houry, her brothers Shahé and Hrair. Alidz soon moved to Canada with her family at the age of 8. She grew to be an exceptional student, active in the community and loved and respected by…
Daniel Derderian
Daniel Derderian (1949-2008)
Varoujan Bastajian
Varoujan Bastajian (2008) Suddenly, Varoujan Bastajian passed away while surrounded by his loving family on Sunday August 10, 2008 at North York General Hospital. Beloved husband of Keghouhi “Kay” for 38 years. Loving father of Tamar and Nazo, and cherished grandfather to Alique and Caline. Van will be missed and lovingly remembered by his family, extended…
Ankine Jeghelian
Ankine Jeghelian (1926-2008) Ankine was born on August 10, 1926 in Alexandrette Syria, the eldest daughter and sister of 7 siblings. She grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where her parents had emigrated in 1936. From a very young age she had great passion for learning and was able to successfully finish high school and college achieving…
Papken Karkar
Papken Karkar 1961 – 2008 “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die”. John 11:25,26″ Papken Karkar was born on March 4, 1961. He was the youngest sibling of 5 children. He grew up…
Vart Zakarian
Vart Zakarian’s Bio Vart Loris Zakarian was born in Cairo on July 28, 1948 and he passed away on July 28, 2007, his 59th birthday. Vart immigrated to Canada on July 28, 1971. He was a member of Homenetmen Scouts as a cub, scout and later as a leader in the Toronto chapter. He established the…
Hovsep Davitjan
Hovsep Davitjan (1924 – 2007) Hovsep Davitjan was born June 13, 1924 in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia. He came to Canada in 1953 at the age of 30 ready to start a new life. With only a few Armenian families, he began work at Babayan’s Rug Galleries at the corner of King and Yonge…
Arthur Avanesi
Arthur Avanesi Arthur Avanesi loved soccer. As a boy, he played soccer on a dirt field with a homemade ball in Tehran Iran. The Armenian Championship in Tehran was won when Arthur was on the team at the age of 14. His many years of coaching in Canada will never be forgotten beginning with coaching…
Aren Avedissian
Aren Avedessian 1989 – 2007 Aren Avedessian was born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 23, 1989. He immigrated to Canada with his family on February 23, 3004. Aren was a grade 12 student at Senator O’connor high school in Toronto. He loved to play sports especially soccer. He was an active player with the Homenetmen…
Kevork Kololian
Kevork Kololian Biography Kevork Kololian, my grandfather was born in Cairo Egypt in 1928. He received his elementary education at the Noubarian School in Heliopolis, Egypt, from the 5th grade at the age of 13. At a very young age, my grandfather became a very active member of the Homenetmen Boy Scouts. Due to the family’s…
Apraham Gosdanian
1931 – 2005 Apraham Gosdanian was born November 4, 1931 in Aleppo, Syria to the proud parents of Levon and Narineh Gosdanian. He was one of four children, two of whom he lost at a young age, leaving him as a very protective brother to his younger sister Azadouhi. Mr. Gosdanian met and married his…
Ara Jelderian
Ara Jelderian (1961- 2004) Despite surgery, clinical trial drugs, and chemotherapy Ara Jelderian, at age 43, lost his valiant battle against GIST ( Gastro Intestinal Stromal Tumour) on December 25, Christmas Day, 2004 . Ara was born in Alexandria, Egypt on March 19, 2004. At age two , along with his parents and two sisters,…
Ara Bablanian
Ara Bablanian was born in Toronto on January 27, 1970 and was the second child of Herant and Lucine Bablanian. He grew up with his two sisters, Maral and Nora. He was incredibly devoted to his family – his parents, his sisters and his four nieces and as everyone who knew him will attest, he…
Zohrab Bedirian
Serop Mahdessian
Gagik Khodaverdian
Gagik Khodaverdian (1954-2003) Gagik Khodaverdian was born in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 1954, to proud parents Teloo and Arshak Khodaverdian and was one of three brothers. After working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) for many years, he immigrated to Canada in 1990 along with his wife, Aida, and his two daughters Meghedi and Alin,…
Hagop Artinian
HAGOP ARTINIAN 1953-2002 Hagop Artinian was bom in Egypt and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1963. His talent spread from music to engineering to sports to leadership. However, his real passion was Homenetmen-scouting and athletics. From cub scout leader to member of the Canadian Regional, Hagop always approached his duties with great conviction and helped…
Hagop Ghazarian
Hagop Ghazarian (1936-2002) Hagop Ghazarian was born in Beirut, Lebanon and immigrated to Toronto with his wife and two daughters on July 5th, 1970. His passion for Homenetmen started in his teens when he played soccer and was a loyal boy scout in Beirut.? Once settled in Toronto he, like most Armenians during that time,…
Garo Pashayan
Andre Baljian
Tro Najarian
Nerses Mksyartinian
Nerses Mksyartinian was the son of proud parents Abraham and Osana. He was a source of constant joy not only for his parents and his younger brother Jacob but also for his hundreds of friends who had the privilege to have Nerses as their friend and had the opportunity to enjoy Nerses’s company. He was…
Vartoug Sakarian
Vartoug “Rosie” Sakarian September 11, 1976- June 1, 1997 Born on September 11, 1976 in Lebanon, Vartoug Sakarian was the eldest child of Kevork and Marie. Soon she had the company of her brother Hagop and then her sister Aida. The adoration she showed her younger siblings truly earned her the title “Big Sister”….
Araxi Mahdessian-Baklarian
Abraham Abrahamian
Araxi Kazandjian
Nerses Drentz-Markarian
Antranig Artinian
Antranig Artinian 1930-1986 An active member of Hai-Ari scouting movement in Egypt from a very young age, Antranig Artinian was dedicated to serving the Armenian Community in his newly adopted home of Canada. A founding member of Homenetmen in Toronto, Antranig Artinian was also a devout supporter of every Armenian organization andworked tirelessly to help materialize a…
Noubar Aynedjian
Garo Yeznigian
Looder Masbanadjian
Nerses Kidikian
Haroutioun Manougian
Haroutioun Samuel Manougian (1914 – 1964) Haroutioun Manougian was born in Kharpert, Turkey on September 13, 1914 in the early days of the Armenian genocide. On April 24, 1915 when the then Turkish government gave the order to execute all the Armenians living in Turkey, his father Samuel Manougian who was a minister was taken…
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