STATESBORO, Ga. -- Dr. Bobbie Ruth ElLaissi, Ph.D., age 84, died on Sunday, June 24, 2018, at the Ogeechee Area Hospice inpatient facility.
She was born in 1934 in Alexandria, La. The precocious and bright only child of Earl and Ruth Semple, she grew up in Longview, Texas, and attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, receiving degrees in education and drama.
While earning her master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she met and married her husband of 48 years, Dr. M.I. ElLaissi of Cairo, Egypt. Moving to Egypt with her beloved husband after she received her Ph.D., she began her professional career teaching at El-Shams University and the American University in Cairo.
After returning to the United States, she enjoyed years raising her three children while also completing her doctorate from the University of Texas in linguistics. She was devoted to education and progressive in her teaching of future educators at Georgia Southern University.
During her tenure at GSU, she served on numerous committees and for different professional organizations.
Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to Tybee Island, Ga., where she continued her love of the arts -- opera, theater, classical music, literature and the visual arts.
Bobbie cultivated her interest in painting and yoga and continued her pursuit of making the world a better place through her practices of green living and by supporting charitable organizations that helped individuals and communities.
Surviving are a son, Fathy (Jane) ElLaissi of Evans, Ga.; two daughters, Ruthie Foss of Brooklet, Ga.; and Melanie ElLaissi (Mathew Urbina) of Washington, D.C.; grandchildren, Jay (Betsy) Hendley of Abington, Va.; Will ElLaissi of Atlanta, Ga.; Jamie Foss of Atlanta, Ga.; and Sarah Jane (Dallas) Smith of Evans, Ga.; and four great-grandchildren.
A private memorial service will be held.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.joineranderson.com.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made to Ogeechee Area Hospice, P.O. Box 531, Statesboro, GA 30459; or to The Progressive Magazine, 30 West Mifflin Street, Suite 703, Madison, WI 53703.
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.
Statesboro Herald, June 26, 2018
She was born in 1934 in Alexandria, La. The precocious and bright only child of Earl and Ruth Semple, she grew up in Longview, Texas, and attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, receiving degrees in education and drama.
While earning her master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she met and married her husband of 48 years, Dr. M.I. ElLaissi of Cairo, Egypt. Moving to Egypt with her beloved husband after she received her Ph.D., she began her professional career teaching at El-Shams University and the American University in Cairo.
After returning to the United States, she enjoyed years raising her three children while also completing her doctorate from the University of Texas in linguistics. She was devoted to education and progressive in her teaching of future educators at Georgia Southern University.
During her tenure at GSU, she served on numerous committees and for different professional organizations.
Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to Tybee Island, Ga., where she continued her love of the arts -- opera, theater, classical music, literature and the visual arts.
Bobbie cultivated her interest in painting and yoga and continued her pursuit of making the world a better place through her practices of green living and by supporting charitable organizations that helped individuals and communities.
Surviving are a son, Fathy (Jane) ElLaissi of Evans, Ga.; two daughters, Ruthie Foss of Brooklet, Ga.; and Melanie ElLaissi (Mathew Urbina) of Washington, D.C.; grandchildren, Jay (Betsy) Hendley of Abington, Va.; Will ElLaissi of Atlanta, Ga.; Jamie Foss of Atlanta, Ga.; and Sarah Jane (Dallas) Smith of Evans, Ga.; and four great-grandchildren.
A private memorial service will be held.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.joineranderson.com.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made to Ogeechee Area Hospice, P.O. Box 531, Statesboro, GA 30459; or to The Progressive Magazine, 30 West Mifflin Street, Suite 703, Madison, WI 53703.
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.
Statesboro Herald, June 26, 2018
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