Verhovayak Lapja, 1949 (32. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949 / Verhovay Journal
VERHOVAY MOURNS DEATH OF ALBERT B. ARI CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE WITH PROFOUND SORROW THE SUDDEN DEATH OF ALBERT B. ARI, BELOVED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION, A MEMBER OF THE BOARD FOR 14 YEARS, ILLUSTRIOUS HOLDER OF THE VERHOVAY SERVICE AWARD, ON SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26TH, 1949, TWO DAYS AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AT THE AGE OF 41, AT HIS HOME IN-TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE ASSOCIATION, TOGETHER WITH THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF BRANCH 417, FOUNDED, BUILT AND SERVED FOR MANY YEARS BY THE LATE ALBERT B. ARI, OFFICIALS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, AND OF THE CITY OF TRENTON, THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN HUNGARIANS OF ALL FAITHS AND THE TRENTON LODGE OF THE MASONIC ORDER PAID FINAL TRIBUTE TO HUM AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29TH, IN THE TRENTON HUNGARIAN HOME AND THE RIVERVIEW MEMORIAL PARK. ON BEHALF OF THE 60,000 MEMBERS OF THE VERHOVAY F. I. ASSOCIATION THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THIS ORGANIZATION EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCES TO THE WIDOW, THE THREE YOUNG CHILDREN, THE MOTHER, BROTHER AND SISTERS OF THIS GREAT MAN WHOSE SUDDEN DEATH BROUGHT IRREPARABLE LOSS TO THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF OUR ASSOCIATION AS WELL AS TO ALL AMERICANS OF HUNGARIAN DESCENT. IN PROFOUND SORROW OVER OUR GRIEVOUS LOSS WE BLESS HIS MEMORY WHICH WILL BE HONOR ED AND REVERED BY ALL OF US TO THE END OF OUR DAYS. MAY HE REST IN PEACE. It was a beautiful day, a sunny, happy Sunday morning . . . Albert B. Ari, who loved to spend every minute he could spare from his in* numerable, and to a great extent self-assumed, duties took his children, Albert Jr., 8, Alan 6, and Vilma Virginia, 3, for a walk ... He returned home a little after 9 o’clock and called for his good friend. Dr. Kondor, to come over because he felt unwell. Hardly five minutes passed before the doctor arrived . . . but he was too late . . . And the happy home at 300 Williams St., in Trenton, N. J., was plunged from the sunlit contentment of a family united by the deepest bonds of loving understanding into the darkest night of a shockingly tragic bereavement . . . The young mother, the former Vilma E. Csighy, who found her life’s happiness in fulfilling her beloved husband’s greatest desire by giving him three adorable children, suddenly found herself and her little ones deprived of the Sun around whom their lives revolved . . . Soon the wires started their mournful music across the country . . . and wherever their tragic tune was picked up, hearts stopped for a moment, and eyes filled in shocked disbelief . . . Protests broke from trembling lips, “It can’t be, no, not Al’ Ari!” Yet, it was true ... At the height of an immensely successful career, ALBERT B. ARI in the flower of manhood, at the very threshold of an even more promising future, — he was suddenly taken away from his adored family, from his devoted friends, and from the great family of Verhovayans whom he has served with unmatched enthusiasm through an era of hitherto unparalleled progress which, to a very great extent, he has helped create by his brilliant leadership. He was a man of great vision. Yet, while his eyes were always on the future, his heart was rooted in the past. Always concerned about the fate of the oncoming generation, he deeply revered the ancestral ties. His great love for his children was matched by filial devotion that brought happiness to the humble hearts of his father and mother. If ever a man honored father and mother, it was Albert B. Ari. In fact, his filial devotion and gratitude went beyond them and included the country liom which they came to this land of opportunities where they could see their son rise to great ness in accomplishments that have made him a high ranking official of the State. Yet even while attaining increasingly important positions. he remained a humble, grateful son and a generous friend of his parents’ impoverished people whom he has helped both privately and thru’ the American Hungarian Relief, from the conclusion of the war up to the day of his untimely death ... Similar sentiments made him participate in the cultural, patriotic and humanitarian pursuits of the immigrant Hungarians, and the extensively remodelled Trenton Hungarian Home remains as a permanent memorial to his inspiring leadership and unselfish service to the Hungarians of his home town. But the most far-reaching effects of his outstanding personality were destined to benefit the Verhovay. What he has accomplished during the 14 years of his service as an executive of this society will be measured by what we will be missing in times to come. For in this the Board of Directors, mournfully assembled at a special meeting after the funeral, unanimously agreed: Albert B. Ari will never be replaced . . . Grievingly conscious of our own irreparable loss, we join the heartbroken family of our departed friend, the Chairman of our Board, the Vice-President of our Association, in their great sorrow. May they find some measure of comfort in the assurance that He will continue living in the grateful remembrance of thousands of Verhovayans . . .
