Alba Milesian

Alba was a soft spoken woman with a boundless love for animals, nature and family gatherings. She was known to keep many pets over her lifetime. She was terribly saddened when her father, Japheth Magog Milesian was found, dead, in Madison Parish, Louisiana sometime in 1933 after a long absence. Jaffy, as everyone knew him, worked in turbine power generation… He was a gregarious man, affable and boisterous in spirit, remembered fondly by his many friends. It was no secret that the earlier passing of his wife, Granta affected him deeply.

The circumstances of his death were largely unknown, and Alba never did discuss it at length with even her closest friends. She was a private person, with eccentric manners. One neighbor remarked that she described her father to him one day in the spring of 1943…

“It was a curious thing, her insistence on describing his height by cubit and span, as she said they did in the old country. I have no idea what 7 cubits and a span translates to… She said at any rate that she thought of him as a giant when she was a child. She also said that she couldn’t turn a tap or run a bath without thinking of him… She felt as if he was always around in spirit, to watch over her, with or without his head… which I guess they never found.”