Taraboulos, Rose

Rose Taraboulos, 88, of Overland Park, passed away Sunday, June 28, at The Forum.

Graveside services were held Tuesday, June 30, at Kehilath Israel Blue Ridge Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to the Good Samaritan Project, 3030 Walnut, Kansas City, MO 64108 (gsp-kc.org).

Mrs. Taraboulos was a production manager at Ecadil Pharmaceuticals, Cairo, Egypt, in the 1940s, where she met her husband, Henry, who was a chemist and they were married in 1949.

Upon their marriage she helped Henry start a specialty manufacturing company which produced boxes and glassware for the pharmaceutical and perfume industries of Europe and Northern Africa.

Mrs. Taraboulos and Henry immigrated to the Kansas City area in 1959 to be near her sister, Fortune Bennett and her family. She was a tailor for Jack Henry’s Clothing Store from 1962 to 1978 when she started Tailor’s II in Overland Park, retiring in 1986.

She was a member of Kehilath Israel Synagogue and its Sisterhood, the Rabbi’s Talamud Study and the Garment Workers Union.
Mrs. Taraboulos was preceded in death by her son, Solomon Taraboulos, in 1995; her husband, Henry, in 2000; her brothers, Raphael Mosseri and Aslan Mosseri; and a sister, Henriette Asher.

She is survived by her son, Michael Taraboulos, and his life partner, Jack E. Foster, Leawood; sister, Fortune Bennett, Ulster, N.Y.; and many loving nieces and nephews and their families.

An online guestbook is available at www.louismemorialchapel.com.

Arr: The Louis Memorial Chapel.

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