Hamid 1959 - 2012

Honoring his life

Hamid YoungHis Childhood
Hamid was born to his wonderful parents, Mr. Javad Daftarian and Mrs. Fatemeh Jeihani, on March 6, 1959, in Isfahan. Three years later, the family moved to Tehran, where Hamid attended elementary and middle school at Andisheyeh-No and Kharazmi high school. His inquisitive nature was alive and well since early childhood as he actively tried his hand at a variety of hobbies and experiments ranging from photography, printing his own pictures in his dark room to a chemistry lab, in which he burned the neighbor’s kid’s hand and got in trouble for it, and a host of other extracurricular activities.

Coming to United States
He moved to the states in the summer of 1978 at age 19 where he attended Middle Georgia College, where he met Terri, his sweetheart of over 30 years. The two later got married and became proud parents of three beautiful children, Roya, Parisa, and Reza. Hamid went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1982 and began his professional career at local firms, including John Portman and Associates, but his entrepreneurial spirit soon led him to go out on his own and launch what we know today as DMD Engineering and Construction from their garage, and later Roya Custom Homes, both of which experienced much success for nearly 20 years. Interestingly, this fulfilled a prediction that his kindergarten teacher had made based on one of Hamid’s drawings, that he would someday be a successful civil engineer!

 Hamid 1979

HamidHis love for outdoors
Hamid most certainly lived a full life. Though his years were short, he experienced the kind of breadth and depth that most people fail to enjoy having lived to be in their 80’s and 90’s. He loved to have fun and had a unique sense of humor.

He was famous for his one liners, some of which I believe we will make reference to later on in the service. He was an avid outdoorsman. Whether he was skiing down the slopes in Colorado, climbing to the top of Mt. Whitney, riding his bike over 100 miles around Lake Tahoe, taking a dip in a river in Costa Rica, going for his Sunday morning hikes in North Georgia with coach Rassoul, or simply taking his beloved Casey, the family dog, for a walk by the river, he loved to spend time in nature.

» Read Hamid's eulogy

A Tribute to Hamid by Mansour

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