He began working in the Ministry of Finance for the British Mandate as teenager in Nazareth to help support his family. He was the eldest of seven siblings—four sisters and two brothers. He continued to educate himself all his life –professionally as an accountant and was a voracious reader of many subjects.
In 1955 he married Hala Wehbe of Beirut. He worked in Beirut, Lebanon from 1955 until 1956 when they move to Baghdad, Iraq. In 1959, they moved to Kuwait and in 1978 to Dubai, UAE. He worked as an accountant from 1955 to 2001. In the early 1960s he took a correspondence course through La Salle University, Chicago to study for the CPA. In 2001 he moved to the US with his wife, Hala.
He loved to read, and play chess, crosswords, Sudoku, card games ( Morto). Mostly of all he was fond of Arabic poetry. He was multi-lingual in English, Arabic, Hebrew and some French. He adored is wife, Hala of 64 years, daughters, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren and many family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Hala and daughters Janan (wife of Bassem Kardoush) and Rana; four grandchildren, Omar, Dana, Nader and Tala; and three great grandchildren, Chloe, Thio, and Jonathan. He is survived also by three sisters in Nazareth.
Funeral Service will be held Monday at 11 AM at Marsh Funeral Home, 305 N Cemetery Rd, Gurnee. Interment will follow at Ascension Cemetery, Libertyville.
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