PRAISE BELOVED GUARDIAN AS SPIRITUAL CONQUEROR THAT CONTINENT.
INTERMENT HIS REMAINS AFRICAN SOIL UNDER SHADOW MOTHER TEMPLE ENHANCES
SPIRITUAL LUSTRE THAT BLESSED SPOT. FERVENTLY PRAYING SHRINES PROGRESS HIS
NOBLE SOUL. MAY AFRICA NOW ROBBED STAUNCH VENERABLE PROMOTER DEFENDER
FAITH FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE CHEER HIS HEART ABHA KINGDOM. CONVEY FAMILY MOST
TENDER SYMPATHIES ADVISE HOLD MEMORIAL MEETINGS ALL COMMUNITIES BAHA'I
WORLD BEFITTING GATHERINGS MOTHER TEMPLES". ("Baha'i World", Vol. XV, pp.
421-3.)

'ALI NAKHJAVANI

Left Persia in early 1951, after service for the Faith in youth and
teaching activities and as a member of the National Assembly, to join his
wife, Violette and her parents, Musa and Samihih Banani, in the British
Isles, preparatory to their pioneering to Africa. His teaching activities
in Africa took him to remote African villages, and, later, as assistant to
Mr. Banani when he was appointed Hand of the Cause, to many countries on
the African continent. Elected Chairman of the first Regional National
Assembly of Central and East Africa, then as member of the first elected
International Council and finally as member of the Universal House of
Justice in 1963.

?ASSAN AND ISOBEL SABRI

?assan, a young Egyptian Baha'i studying in England in 1945 met Isobel
Locke, an American pioneer to England, and they both served with
distinction in the Six Year Plan, ?assan on the National Youth and
National Teaching Committees and the Nottingham, Birmingham, Belfast,
Liverpool, Cardiff and Bristol Spiritual Assemblies, and Isobel on the
Assemblies in Edinburgh, Blackpool, Sheffield and Bristol, as well as on
the National Teaching Committee. They married in 1951 and pioneered to
Tanganyika and Uganda, where ?assan was on the first National Spiritual
Assembly of Central and East Africa. Isobel became a Counsellor and ?assan
Secretary of the Continental Pioneer Committee for Africa. They
subsequently pioneered to Kenya where they still serve (1979).

ARTHUR NORTON

Was the Treasurer of the special fund for the Shrine of the Bab when he
received some letters and receipts. He and his wife Marion were founder
members of the Bradford Baha'i community as well as being the first
pioneers to Sheffield during the Six Year Plan. He served on the National
Assembly for seven and a half years during the period 1938-1946, when he
was obliged to retire due to ill-health in December 1946.

ERIC MANTON