In memoriam January-April 2026

Members of the Bahá’í community of Canada who the National Spiritual Assembly has been advised have passed away.

January

Mr. Joseph Haberer, Haileybury, Ont.

Ms. Jean McKeever, Markham, Ont.

Mr. Ehsansollah Kiani Aghcheh, Lethbridge, Atla.

Mr. Paul Bugg, Yellownife, NT.

Mr. Vom Vadiveloo, Brossard, Que.

Mr. Nayyer Onsori, Coquitlam, B.C.

Ms. Rozita Alizadeh, Okanagan-Similkameen, B.C. [delayed notice]

Mr. Ataollah Alizadeh-Saissan, Okanagan-Similkameen, B.C. [delayed notice]

Mr. Ziaollah Talebi, Okanagan-Similkameen, B.C. [delayed notice]

Mr. Seyed Koosha Nikaein, Kitchener, Ont.

Mr. Barry Robert May Jr., Cambridge, Ont.

Mr. Dariush Nikfardjam, Niagara Falls, Ont.

Ms. Irene Yu, Montréal, Que.

Mr. Barrie Carter, Victoria, B.C.

February

Mr. Robert Van McKay, Niagara Falls, Ont. [delayed notice]

Mrs. Anne Phillips, Brampton, Ont.

Mr. Leo Ernest Fankhanel, Camrose, Atla. [delayed notice]

Mrs. Georgette Wark, Grimsby, Ont. [delayed notice]

Mrs. Rita Marsolais, Port Colborne, Ont.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mayer, Lincoln, Ont.

Mr. Michael Brookfield, Guelph. Ont.

Mrs. Yvonne Poucette, Stoney 142, 143, 144, Atla. [delayed notice]

Mr. Vincent Christie Hoard, Winnipeg, MB. [delayed notice]

Mrs. Jeannette Hazel Terry, Lethbridge, Atla.

Ms. Janice Dongworth, Lucky Lake, Sask.

Mrs. Irene Maria Kerr, North Kawartha, Ont. [delayed notice]

Mr. Antonio Giuseppe Asturi, Victoria, B.C.

Mrs. Mahin Manouchehrzadeh, Richmond Hill, Ont. 

Mrs. Susan Sauer, Abbotsford, B.C.

March

Mrs. Charlotte Hadden, Carcross, Y.T.

Ms. Gertrude Gottfredsen, Hamilton, Ont. [delayed notice]

Mr. William A Ross, Paintearth County No. 18, Atla.

Mr. Gargany Ziaei Gargany, Vaughan, Ont.

Mr. Kamran Samimi, Niagara Falls, Ont.

Mr. Kenneth Carpenter, Westbank First Nation, B.C.

Ms. Donna Parsons, Edmonton, Atla.

Mr. Edward Kinash, Regina, Sask.

Mrs. Zahra Pourjafar-Ziaei, Calgary, Atla.

Mrs. Sandra Lynn Ennis, Thunder Bay. Ont.

Mr. Aminu’llah Imany, Vancouver, B.C.

Mrs. Debra Bell Seysner, Victoria, B.C.

Mr. Elwood Pushee, White Rock, B.C.

April

Ms. Sacha J E Googoo, Eskasoni 3, N.S.

Ms. Audrey Cote, Eskasoni 3, N.S. [delayed notice]

Mr. Ehsan Missaghi, Richmond Hill, Ont. 

Mr. Aminollah Mirza Agha, Lethbridge, Atla.

Mrs. Marilyn Luella Conibear, Vancouver, B.C.

Mr. Parviz Khosravi Hamedani, London, Ont.

Mr. Andy Marcel Blanchette, Greater Sudbury, Ont. 

Mrs. Khojasteh Mahdi, Toronto, Ont. 

Mrs. Mahindokht Vigour, Kelowna, B.C. 

Dr. Naser Derakhshan, Burlington, Ont.

Mrs. Baghaa Mehrabkhani, Ajax, Ont.

Mrs. Parvin-Dokht Yazhari Behjati, Vancouver, B.C.