Our Benefactors

The ARS Eastern USA remembers its benefactors with thanks every year with “hokeehankisd” services at Armenian Eastern Prelacy-affiliated churches. Those benefactors are:

- ARS founder Agnouni

- George and Beatrice Lazarian

- Sophia and Levon Hagopian

- Karekin and Virginia Seroonian

- Alice Norian

- Doris Norian Lentz

- Arpcase Kilerjian

- Hagop “Jack” Mooradian

- Alice Haigazian Berman

In addition, many ARS chapters have local benefactors who are remembered at this time.

This Region-wide remembrance occurs annually on the last Sunday of February. Many ARS chapters sponsor after-church coffee hours or ARS anniversary events in memory of the ARS’s deceased benefactors and members and in celebration of the ARS’s continued vitality and good work.