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MORVARID KHORDADI TOLOUEI
1928—1993
WITH SORROWFUL HEARTS WE INFORM YOU OF THE PASSING OF MRS. MORVARID KHORDADI TOLOUEI, STAUNCH PIONEER IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL, WHO 14 YEARS AGO CAME TO OUR COUNTRY. WITH HER TWO SONS AND DAUGHTER-IN‘LAW SHE SETTLED IN DOURADOS, MATO GROSSO DO SUL, WHERE IN A SHORT TIMETHEY CHANG ED THE DESTINIES OF THE FAITH IN THAT AREA FORMING DOZENS OF LOCAL ASSEMBLIES AND BRINGING HUNDREDS OF SOULS TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE MOST GREAT NAME. ALWAYS VERY DISCREET, MRS. TOLOUEI WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS THE BEDROCK BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF A DISTINGUISHED AND DEDICATED BAHA’I‘ FAMILY. WE HUMBLY BESEECH YOUR PRAYERS FOR THE EVERLASTING PROGRESS OF THAT DEAR SOUL.
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Brazil
GRIEVED PASSING STALWART DEDICATED PIONEER MORVARID KHORDADI TOLUEL HER VALIANT SERVICES WARMLY REMEMBERED. ASSURE PRAYERS HOLY SHRINES
Morwm'd Khordadz' Tolouei
PROGRESS HER RADIANT SOUL. KINDLY CONVEY HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES HER BEREAVED FAMILY.
Universal House ofjustice September 23, 1993
Morvarid Khordadi was born in the city onazd, Iran, on April 22, 1928, and was raised in a Bahá’í family. Before his marriage, her father, Khodamorad Khordadi, was a businessman and acted as a Zoroastrian minister. When he married Shirin, a Bahá’í, he became a dedicated believer who died at his pioneering post in Pakistan.
Morvarid married Mr. Rostam Tolouei in 1953. Rostam was a widower with five children. Their marriage produced another three, so Morvarid raised a family of eight. Rostam died in 1977.
Morvarid left Iran to live for a few years in India. She returned to Iran and lived in Ṭihrán, serving on local Bahá’í committees. In 1978 she and her two sons moved to the Philippines and then pioneered to Brazil.
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She chose the state oFMato Grosso do Sul as her pioneering post and lived in the state capital ofCampo Grande For five years, and then she settled in the city of Dourados for another nine years. She was a member of the Local Assembly for all those years.
Although language was an obstacle for her in teaching the Faith, she used other means; she opened her home and endeavored to provide all the support needed by her family and the other Bahá’í friends to teach the Faith eEectively.
Morvarid died at her pioneering post on September 18, 1993. Her death was a major proclamation of the Faith. The largest newspaper of the city published a long article entitled “The death of the first Bahá’í pioneer in Dourados."
On her gravestone was engraved “To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood?“ Many Visit the public cemetery every day and comment about
her stone. It has become a silent teacher of the Faith.
Daryom/a Blond
