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Surnames: ABDI, ABDI-MORENO, MORENO, LINCOLN, ROBERTSON, MADANAT, COLLINS, ABDI-MOHEBBI,
MOHEBBI, AMIDI, MELTON
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Jahanbakhsh 'John' Abdi
Jahanbakhsh "John" Abdi died suddenly on Aug. 4, 2002, at his home in Las Vegas,
Nev., from complications of heart disease. He was 63.
He was born in Tehran, Iran, on June 7, 1939. He came to the United States in 1959 to
study engineering at the UC Davis. He became a restaurateur in the 1970s, opening French
restaurants in Sausalito, Beverly Hills and Walnut Creek. For the past 15 years, he was a
a pool contractor in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
He enjoyed working, cooking, politics and horse races, and he was an avid sports
enthusiast.
He was preceded in death by his father, Gen. Jahanjir Abdi; mother, Afsarelmolook Abdi,
both of Las Vegas; and grandson, Daniel Steven Abdi-Moreno of Davis.
He is survived by his wife, Josephine Joanne Abdi of Las Vegas; his sons, Charles Abdi and
his wife Diane of San Diego and John Darian Abdi of San Rafael; his daughters, Sue Abdi
Lincoln and her husband Jim of Woodland, Mia Michelle Robertson and her husband Tony of
Petaluma, and Danielle Cheri Abdi of San Rafael; stepson, Tarik Joseph Madanat; and
stepdaughter, Nada Noah Madanat.
He is also survived by two granddaughters, Charlize Capri Abdi of San Diego and Mckenna
Danielle Lincoln of Woodland, and step-granddaughter, Joanna Elizabeth Collins of Las
Vegas; brother, Jahanshah Abdi and his wife Pari of Las Vegas; sister, Ozzi Abdi-Mohebbi
and her husband Jamshid Mohebbi of Las Vegas; brother-in-law and best friend, Abbas Amidi
of Iran; nephew, Paveh Amidi of Las Vegas; and niece, Pooneh Amidi Melton of Las Vegas.
He is further survived by many cousins and friends.
Services will be held next week in Las Vegas.
(Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," Thursday, August 8, 2002, (Yolo
County). Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G
Street, Davis, CA 95616, <
http://www.davisenterprise.com/>. Please note: I am not
related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this
family.)