Grandma Yester (Bosnian) Vartanian and Grandpa Garabed Vartanian, immigrants from Aintab in the Ottoman Empire, settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They bought a three-decker house: 47 Vassal Lane, Cambridge, Massachusetts . . . the house where Marash Girl's mother Lucille Mae (known as Jennie -- that's Jennie with an "ie" not an "ey", Jennie would always say) . . . where Jennie, Lydia, and George grew up. Garabed ran a "Ma and Pa" store in Harvard Square (it was only Pa, though) and Yester rented out the first two floors of their 3-decker home in Cambridge. They arrived as immigrants, and made it in the good old USA! Marash Girl is so proud of them! Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa.
N.B. Somewhere in a drawer, lost long ago, is a photo of Grandpa Garabed Vartanian who played the piano in a band in Aintab! He must be the source of all the musical talent in our family! Grandma Jennie, though she never had a lesson in her life, could play any popular tune on the piano . . . by ear!
N.B. Somewhere in a drawer, lost long ago, is a photo of Grandpa Garabed Vartanian who played the piano in a band in Aintab! He must be the source of all the musical talent in our family! Grandma Jennie, though she never had a lesson in her life, could play any popular tune on the piano . . . by ear!
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