Violet Stamboulian

Violet Stamboulian, 91 of Pompton Lakes, died peacefully on Friday, August 30, 2019.

Violet was raised in Aleppo, Syria and at the age of nineteen she was married to John Stamboulian.  John was living in America at the time and he received a letter from his family in Syria stating that there was a girl in Aleppo that he should marry.  They didn’t know each other, but John went to Syria to meet Violet and they enjoyed a six week courtship (with a chaperone, of course), and were married soon thereafter.  The newlyweds came to America and settled on Paxton Street in Paterson, later moving to Montclair Avenue.

Violet was a skilled seamstress and began working in the textile mills of Passaic and Paterson.  Extremely talented, she fashioned high-caliber women’s dresses which included her skilled handwork.  Retiring from the mills in 1992, she was among the hardest working women you may have ever met, and she continued doing seamstress work for her family until she was seventy-two years old.

Violet was the foundation of her family; the “rock” that held everyone together.  Her selfless devotion to family was evident to all who knew her and there wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do for them.  She was also an incredible cook who loved to feed her friends and family, cooking all sorts of traditional Armenian dishes.  Her lamb was perfect and her baking skills were second to none.  She was an incredible homemaker in every sense of the word.  Her home was spotlessly clean and her door was always open to guests.

Violet is survived by her daughter; Linda and Joseph Berecz of Pompton Lakes, her grandchildren; Keith Berecz and his wife Allyson of S. Orange, NJ and Dawn Turrin and her husband Reed of Bloomingdale, three great-grandchildren; Blake, Lily, and Faye, brother; Chris Stamboulian.  Violet was predeceased by her beloved husband John in 1981, by her daughter Dorothy Ann Stamboulian in 2012, her brother George Stamboulian, and a sister; Ohsanna Karanfilian.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Leon Armenian Church would be appreciated.