Gassan Nasralah - My grandparents came from Lebanon to Costa Rica around 1936 because my Grandmother's family (Breedy) had already moved here since the end of WWI. My Grandfather died six years later, leaving a young family with three little kids: 12, 11 and 9. They spoke Arabic, French and English. Thus they needed to move to the English speaking region of the new Spanish speaking country and their efforts where mainly in the business of cloth trade in the local market of a litte country town known as Siquirres (Atlantic Coast). Once My Grandmother widowed, she had to face an enormous fire that cought the whole marketplace, leaving them no other choice that going to San Jose, where the rest of her relatives lived. They spent a short time there and then moved to Puntarenas (Pacific Coast) and bought a small store named "El Dandy" that helped her get her kids out of High School. The oldest son Rayah (Rogelio) moved to San Jose after graduating from highschool and met Alicia. From them rose the Nasralah - Viquez branch. Christopher (Jesus) stayed with the store until his death procreating Ragivb Nasralah. Gassan, the youngest, left the portplace after graduating and went to San Jose to the Pharmacy School of the University of Costa Rica. There he met Nelly Martinez and proceated Gassan, Layla, Jorge and Eugeny. This was the beginning of one of the families devoted to the Pharmaceutical Profession in this country. None ever went back to Lebanon. However, Jorge (George) went recently and was able to find the branch of the family (George Azar) that us, as grankids, had already lost every possible contact with. That issue has boosted very strongly our always present enthusiasm about Lebanon, now with renued interest in its culture, language and traditions. We have been always very proud of our Lebanese origins and we look forward to tighten such bonds with a great deal of very smart and progressist relatives yet held there.
Pharmacist, MBA, Medigray INC
San Jose, Costa Rica
Deirkubil - 1963
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