WEYMOUTH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVOR CELEBRATES 102ND BIRTHDAY
March 7, 2013 – 13:18 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – The family and friends of Asdghig “Starrie” Alemian
of Weymouth held a festive party Saturday, March 2 to celebrate
Alemian’s 102nd birthday. She turned 102 on March 1.
Alemian escaped from the 1915 Armenian Genocide as a child of five,
after both her parents were killed.
She was brought to this country at age 12, in 1922, from a Syrian
orphanage in Aleppo by an uncle and has lived in Weymouth since that
time, except for two years in Worcester.
Her first name, Asdghig, is a term of endearment meaning little star,
or “Starrie.”
She and her husband Sarkis had seven children and lived in East
Weymouth near Jackson Square. The couple ran a small grocery store
called Alemian’s Delicatessen at 718 Broad St. near the old Immaculate
Conception Church for many years.
In recent years, Alemian took part in events with the Armenian-American
community in Watertown and at the State House to underscore the
importance of officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide, The
Patriot Ledger reported.
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