Ararat Cemetery Improvement Association
Contact: Frank H. Balekian, Jr.
Interim Superintendent & Operations Manager
1925 West Belmont
Fresno, California 93728-2625
Tel: 559.292.2415
Mob: 559.930.2142
Fax: 559.486.2415
Email: araratcemetery@att.net

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN CHURCH CLERGYTO CONDUCT MEMORIAL DAY
ARMENIAN HOKEHANKIST SERVICES AT ARARAT AND MASIS ARARAT CEMETERIES

The Armenian Church Clergy from the Armenian Churches of the Greater
San Joaquin Valley will conduct Armenian Hokehankist Memorial Services
Monday, May 31, 2010, at the Ararat and Masis Ararat Cemeteries of
Fresno, California.

The first Hokehankist Memorial Service will take place at 10:00
a.m. at the Armenian Martyrs Memorial near the Yazijian Memorial
Building in the Ararat Cemetery, 1925 West Belmont Avenue, Fresno,
California. A second Hokehankist Memorial Service will follow at
approximately 10:30 a.m. at the Soghomon Tehlirian Monument in the
nearby Masis Ararat Cemetery, 250 North Hughes Avenue. The Armenian
Community of the Greater San Joaquin Valley and the general public are
invited to attend and participate.

The Hokehankist Memorial Services will remember the men and women
fallen while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of
America, the several generations of departed members of the
American-Armenian Community of Central California, and those 1.5
million Martyred Armenians of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Additional information is available by calling the Administrative
Office of the Ararat and Masis Ararat Cemeteries at [559] 292.2415.