Michael Minasian
MONTEBELLO, Calif.—Long-time community activist Michael (Mkhitar) Minasian passed away at his home in Montebello on January 17.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 28 at Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, 900 West Lincoln Avenue in Montebello. Burial services will follow at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, after which a memorial luncheon will be hosted at the Bagramian Hall adjacent to Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral. Memorial donations may be made to the Armenian Monument Council, P.O. Box 1935, Montebello, CA 90640.
Michael Minasian was born in 1931 in an Armenian village near Varantzov, Russia to Sukias and Rehan, survivors of the Armenian genocide from the Alashgerd area in historical Armenia. His father and hero Sukias was a devoted man of the church who descended from a long line of deacons.
In 1944, toward the end of the World War II, Minasian left Russia with his family and moved as a “forced laborerâ€
