104 - Abraham Tanous Karam - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario

The marker is in section 19, north side, perpetual care, lot 190.

IN LOVING
MEMORY
OF
ABRAHAM T.
1861-1965
HIS WIFE
CASSNA DAVID
1865-1948
KARAM

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The follow death notice was published in The Ottawa Citizen, 22 November 1965, page 30. Headlines of the time include the UN Security Council recommending that all states cease trading with Rhodesia.

KARAM, Abraham Tanous -
At Trenton Memorial Hospital on Saturday, November 20, 1965, Abraham Karam, husband of the late Cassna David (and former residents of Ottawa). Dear father of (Helen) Mrs. Michael David, Trenton and father-in-law of Mrs. Elias (Bill) Karam and grandfather of Sandra, Barbara and John Karam, of Ottawa and (Audrey) Mrs. Louis Aziz, Trenton and Allan David of Binghamton, New York, Great grandfather of Donna and Laurie Aziz, Trenton, in his 105th year. On arrival by motor at Ottawa on Monday will rest at McEvoy Brothers - Shields Funeral Home, 235 Kent Street. Funeral Wednesday. Service at St. Elijah's Syrian Orthodox Church at 2 p.m. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.

According to the obituary concerning Abraham's wife Cassna David, the married couple first arrived in Ottawa from Lebanon in 1896, The Ottawa Citizen, 17 May 1948, page 2). In the 1890s, Lebanon was then known as the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, a subdivision within the Ottoman Empire. In 1895, Lebanon had a population of nearly 400 000 citizens, 80% Christian.