Afaf Dubbelday's Obituary
Our sweet wife, mother, and grandmother has gone to heaven. Born and raised in the Middle East, she obtained an M.S. in Chemistry, one of only a handful of women to do so in the 50’s in her country. Through science, she met her future husband, Pieter of the Netherlands, while they were both summer students at M.I.T. in 1956. They courted by playing violin and piano together and made their beautiful music into a beautiful marriage in January of 1959. They arrived in the United States on Thanksgiving Day 1959 to start a new life together in the new world. After briefly living in Wisconsin, they settled in Florida for over 40 years before moving to the DFW Metroplex in 2002. In 2014, Florida Institute of Technology, where her husband and brother taught and her children attended, honored Afaf and Pieter by establishing a scholarship in their names. Legally blind and profoundly deaf for most of her life, she overcame challenges of body to be a fantastic daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother: loving, caring, and self-sacrificing. Despite facing many adversities, she retained a spirit of faith, hope, and love to the end.Preceded in death by her parents, Wadad and Ibrahim, Afaf is survived by her husband, Pieter, her daughters and sons-in-law, Wadad and Jeff and Catharina and Craig, granddaughter, Annaliese, siblings, Nabil and Inaam, cousins, nieces, nephews, and many wonderful relatives who came to her family through her sons-in-law.A funeral service will be held on Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 10:30 AM at NorthPark Presbyterian Church located at 9555 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75231.Rest in peace, sweet Afaf. We will miss you every day.
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