Monday, April 6, 2009

Aladdin's lamp

Grandmother's last husband was named Reuben Parsigian, he died in 1979. He was Armenian and Turkish, so had that dark "foreign" look about him. Combined with an easy laugh, he was someone you would pretty much come to enjoy rather quickly. Good man.

He had such a face, so full of expression and character. I think he was a bit of a character as it was!

About 1980, after his death, she did this painting of him as someone holding Aladdin's lamp.

I am actually hoping that the kids or grand-kids from his first marriage will contact me. They ought to know what their father/grandfather was like.