Tragedy hits family seeking residency
By The Denver Post
DenverPost.com
11 March 2005
Denver, CO
Article Published: Wednesday, March 09, 2005
A construction accident has brought tragedy to an Armenian family
that has been fighting with the help of friends and neighbors in
Ouray County to stay in the United States.
Ouray resident Max Noland, the American husband of the eldest daughter
of the Sargsyan family, died Monday when he slipped off the roof of
a home he was building near Durango Mountain Resort. He was impaled
by an object on the ground and died before paramedics could transport
him to Durango, said family friend Pete Whiskeman.
Noland married Nvart Idinyan Sargsyan in 1999 after she was divorced
from Vaughn Huckfeldt, an American the family claims defrauded
Armenians who were trying to obtain U.S. visas.
The family has been fighting to become U.S. residents for nearly
six years. Whiskeman said the Sargsyans’ many supporters will be
regrouping to determine how Noland’s death affects the immigration bid.