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August 2008

Our beloved Sheila passed away as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident on August 1, 2008. She had just turned 18 and was full of life, she will always be in our hearts and thoughts.

Sheila Eshraghi was born on April 17, 1990 in Tehran, Iran. When Sheila was eight years old, the family migrated back to the United States, where Sheila’s mother and father had resided for many years, Sheila attended Abbotts Hill Elementary, RiverTrail Middle school and Northview High School and was admitted to Georgia Tech for the Fall Semester 2008.

Sheila aspired to become an attorney and contribute to those who needed her advocacy to create a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, an automobile accident claimed her young life on August 1, 2008, just days before she would begin her academic career at Georgia Tech, her father’s Alma Mater.

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January 2012

While on a trip to Iran, Hamid suffered a stroke and did not survive, Hamid was one of our PPA original members and will be greatly missed.

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. 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.

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