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MARION CARPENTER YAZDI
1902—1996
cm on October 9, 1902, Marion
Carpenter Yazdi first heard of the Bahá’í Faith when her mother read aloud a newspaper article about ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that appeared in the L0: Angeles Times. She became a Bahá’í in 1914.
For Mrs. Yazdi the Bahá’í Faith was the center of gravity around which her life revolved. Among her family are the earliest members of the Bahá’í Faith in California. She served the community at large as a teacher and a businesswoman, and she served the Faith as a member of several national and local committees. For many years she was secretary of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Berkeley.
In 1926 she married the noted Bahá’í lecturer and writer ‘Ali M. Yazdi. Marion later compiled Pmp/aetz't Days: Memories
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of Hbdu’l—Baba’, written by her husband in 1975.
She was the author of Yautk in the Vanguard: Memoir: and Letters Collected by the First Balm? Student at Berkeley and at Stanford University (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982). In it she writes, “Uppermost in my mind was my desire to inform people in a winning way about Bahá’í principles.” ther student days she says, “I had certain objectives in mind . . . above all to spread the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith in the wake of the beloved Master. I knew I had a responsibility, and I welcomed it.”
Marion Carpenter Yazdi passed away on February 2, 1996, in Natick, Massachusetts. On February 9, the Department of the Secretariat wrote the following letter on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the Yazdi-Markert family:
The Universal House OIJustice was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mrs. Marion Carpenter Yazdi, long—standing and stalwart maidservant of Baha’u’llah. Her praiseworthy achievements and contributions to the development of the Faith over many years will be warmly remembered, and her radiant spirit will be sorely missed.
Be assured of the payers of the House of Justice at the Sacred Threshold for the progress of dear Marion’s soul in the Abhá Kingdom, and that the divine grace of the Blessed Beauty may surround and solace you all.
THE BAHA’I’ WORLD
