Fazil Sadri - Montreal and Colma

It was just Father's Day this week and we conjured our father, Fazil Sadri for a visit. Here he is in Montreal in 1975. He was born in Kobe, Japan. He studied there at a British school and after WW2, he emigrated to Turkey. He lived in Turkey for several years and served in the Turkish military. There are great pictures of him on a horse in Kars, in Eastern Turkey, near the Black Sea - taken during his military service. He eventually moved to Montreal and onwards to California, where he is buried. He is resting next to his mother Halime and enjoying a fantastic view of the airport where he worked. He loved working at the airport.

Tatars in the San Francisco Bay Area are buried at the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California, just south of San Francisco. There are a few areas where Tatar graves are "grouped". Our section is buttressed by "Armenian Ararat Memorial Park" on one side. It is a cluster of Armenian graves, with a central marker. On the other sides and all around the Tatar graves are a veritable "salad" of ethnic groups ranging from Chinese to Polynesian, Irish and Mexican, (and more) all resting peacefully together.

the view from the Tatar graves towards the airport