Blade, The (Toledo, OH) - December 21, 1998
Deceased Name: MINNIE ''MIN'' KERBAWY , 1901-1998
Minnie ''Min'' Kerbawy, the former partner in a dry goods store with her father, died yesterday in Flower Hospital. She was 97 and died of angina pectoris , her family said.
Miss Kerbawy spent her working life managing and becoming a partner in her father's dry good store at the corner of Jefferson and Lane streets. George Kerbawy started selling dry goods from a backpack to farmers.
The Rev. Paul Albert, pastor of St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church in Sylvania, where Miss Kerbawy was its eldest member, said Miss Kerbawy was a well-known and popular person in the Blissfield area.
Born in Toledo in 1901, Miss Kerbawy ended up in Blissfield where her outgoing personality helped her become a successful manager of her father's store, which was the social gathering place in town.
''She was friends with everyone,'' said her brother, Haford Kerbawy, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. ''People from around the town would come see her just to talk. She gave her life to the store and the city.''
During Blissfield's 150th anniversary in 1962, Miss Kerbawy was honored as ''Miss Blissfield.''
''That was the highlight of her life,'' Mr. Kerbawy said. ''We made a photo history of that event in an album and she enjoyed that every since.''
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy was a generous person who gave away nearly all of her gifts from the festival to charity.
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy's home, at 413 West Adrian, was a historical place. The house was the first brick home in Blissfield and the first to have electricity.
The home, which was sold last year, is now listed as a historical site. Because her parents enjoyed entertaining people, Father Albert said, local families would use the home for baptisms, weddings, and other church functions.
''How many kids grow up with weddings and baptisms performed in their home?,'' Father Albert said. ''That had to have an affect on you. She was a religious person.''
Mr. Albert said the Rev. Basil Kerbawy, a relative from Brooklyn, N.Y., traveled to Blissfield regularly to stay with family. Through that relationship, Father Albert said, the Rev. Antony Bashir, who would later become a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church, would live at the Kerbawy home and transcribe Arabic teachings of the church into English.
Surviving are a brother, Haford Kerbawy, and sisters, Grayce Neiman and Nellie Wakeman.
A Trisagion Prayer will be recited at Tagsold Funeral Home at 8 p.m. tomorrow, where visitation will be from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery in Blissfield.
Deceased Name: MINNIE ''MIN'' KERBAWY , 1901-1998
Minnie ''Min'' Kerbawy, the former partner in a dry goods store with her father, died yesterday in Flower Hospital. She was 97 and died of angina pectoris , her family said.
Miss Kerbawy spent her working life managing and becoming a partner in her father's dry good store at the corner of Jefferson and Lane streets. George Kerbawy started selling dry goods from a backpack to farmers.
The Rev. Paul Albert, pastor of St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church in Sylvania, where Miss Kerbawy was its eldest member, said Miss Kerbawy was a well-known and popular person in the Blissfield area.
Born in Toledo in 1901, Miss Kerbawy ended up in Blissfield where her outgoing personality helped her become a successful manager of her father's store, which was the social gathering place in town.
''She was friends with everyone,'' said her brother, Haford Kerbawy, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. ''People from around the town would come see her just to talk. She gave her life to the store and the city.''
During Blissfield's 150th anniversary in 1962, Miss Kerbawy was honored as ''Miss Blissfield.''
''That was the highlight of her life,'' Mr. Kerbawy said. ''We made a photo history of that event in an album and she enjoyed that every since.''
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy was a generous person who gave away nearly all of her gifts from the festival to charity.
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy's home, at 413 West Adrian, was a historical place. The house was the first brick home in Blissfield and the first to have electricity.
The home, which was sold last year, is now listed as a historical site. Because her parents enjoyed entertaining people, Father Albert said, local families would use the home for baptisms, weddings, and other church functions.
''How many kids grow up with weddings and baptisms performed in their home?,'' Father Albert said. ''That had to have an affect on you. She was a religious person.''
Mr. Albert said the Rev. Basil Kerbawy, a relative from Brooklyn, N.Y., traveled to Blissfield regularly to stay with family. Through that relationship, Father Albert said, the Rev. Antony Bashir, who would later become a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church, would live at the Kerbawy home and transcribe Arabic teachings of the church into English.
Surviving are a brother, Haford Kerbawy, and sisters, Grayce Neiman and Nellie Wakeman.
A Trisagion Prayer will be recited at Tagsold Funeral Home at 8 p.m. tomorrow, where visitation will be from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery in Blissfield.
Blade, The (Toledo, OH) - December 21, 1998
Deceased Name: MINNIE ''MIN'' KERBAWY , 1901-1998
Minnie ''Min'' Kerbawy, the former partner in a dry goods store with her father, died yesterday in Flower Hospital. She was 97 and died of angina pectoris , her family said.
Miss Kerbawy spent her working life managing and becoming a partner in her father's dry good store at the corner of Jefferson and Lane streets. George Kerbawy started selling dry goods from a backpack to farmers.
The Rev. Paul Albert, pastor of St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church in Sylvania, where Miss Kerbawy was its eldest member, said Miss Kerbawy was a well-known and popular person in the Blissfield area.
Born in Toledo in 1901, Miss Kerbawy ended up in Blissfield where her outgoing personality helped her become a successful manager of her father's store, which was the social gathering place in town.
''She was friends with everyone,'' said her brother, Haford Kerbawy, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. ''People from around the town would come see her just to talk. She gave her life to the store and the city.''
During Blissfield's 150th anniversary in 1962, Miss Kerbawy was honored as ''Miss Blissfield.''
''That was the highlight of her life,'' Mr. Kerbawy said. ''We made a photo history of that event in an album and she enjoyed that every since.''
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy was a generous person who gave away nearly all of her gifts from the festival to charity.
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy's home, at 413 West Adrian, was a historical place. The house was the first brick home in Blissfield and the first to have electricity.
The home, which was sold last year, is now listed as a historical site. Because her parents enjoyed entertaining people, Father Albert said, local families would use the home for baptisms, weddings, and other church functions.
''How many kids grow up with weddings and baptisms performed in their home?,'' Father Albert said. ''That had to have an affect on you. She was a religious person.''
Mr. Albert said the Rev. Basil Kerbawy, a relative from Brooklyn, N.Y., traveled to Blissfield regularly to stay with family. Through that relationship, Father Albert said, the Rev. Antony Bashir, who would later become a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church, would live at the Kerbawy home and transcribe Arabic teachings of the church into English.
Surviving are a brother, Haford Kerbawy, and sisters, Grayce Neiman and Nellie Wakeman.
A Trisagion Prayer will be recited at Tagsold Funeral Home at 8 p.m. tomorrow, where visitation will be from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery in Blissfield.
Deceased Name: MINNIE ''MIN'' KERBAWY , 1901-1998
Minnie ''Min'' Kerbawy, the former partner in a dry goods store with her father, died yesterday in Flower Hospital. She was 97 and died of angina pectoris , her family said.
Miss Kerbawy spent her working life managing and becoming a partner in her father's dry good store at the corner of Jefferson and Lane streets. George Kerbawy started selling dry goods from a backpack to farmers.
The Rev. Paul Albert, pastor of St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church in Sylvania, where Miss Kerbawy was its eldest member, said Miss Kerbawy was a well-known and popular person in the Blissfield area.
Born in Toledo in 1901, Miss Kerbawy ended up in Blissfield where her outgoing personality helped her become a successful manager of her father's store, which was the social gathering place in town.
''She was friends with everyone,'' said her brother, Haford Kerbawy, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. ''People from around the town would come see her just to talk. She gave her life to the store and the city.''
During Blissfield's 150th anniversary in 1962, Miss Kerbawy was honored as ''Miss Blissfield.''
''That was the highlight of her life,'' Mr. Kerbawy said. ''We made a photo history of that event in an album and she enjoyed that every since.''
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy was a generous person who gave away nearly all of her gifts from the festival to charity.
Father Albert said Miss Kerbawy's home, at 413 West Adrian, was a historical place. The house was the first brick home in Blissfield and the first to have electricity.
The home, which was sold last year, is now listed as a historical site. Because her parents enjoyed entertaining people, Father Albert said, local families would use the home for baptisms, weddings, and other church functions.
''How many kids grow up with weddings and baptisms performed in their home?,'' Father Albert said. ''That had to have an affect on you. She was a religious person.''
Mr. Albert said the Rev. Basil Kerbawy, a relative from Brooklyn, N.Y., traveled to Blissfield regularly to stay with family. Through that relationship, Father Albert said, the Rev. Antony Bashir, who would later become a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church, would live at the Kerbawy home and transcribe Arabic teachings of the church into English.
Surviving are a brother, Haford Kerbawy, and sisters, Grayce Neiman and Nellie Wakeman.
A Trisagion Prayer will be recited at Tagsold Funeral Home at 8 p.m. tomorrow, where visitation will be from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery in Blissfield.
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