Obituary of Solomon Sliwo Solomon

Solomon Solomon passed away on April 2, 2023 at age 78. The Memorial Service is Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Sellars Funeral Home, Lebanon TN. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 9 a.m. until the service at 1 p.m. Interment in Mt. Juliet Memorial Gardens will follow the service.

               Solomon (Sawa) Solomon was born in Baghdad Iraq in 1944 from a Timari ancestry. His great grandfather was Malik Youkhanna Badawi of Timar. In 1962 Solomon moved to the United States, settling in Northern Michigan. Four years later, he moved to Fort Wayne Indiana where he earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1969. In 1985, Solomon moved to Chicago where he developed an intense interest in modern Assyrian History. The following year, his articles started appearing in Assyrian publications in the U.S. and Britain, but especially in Nineveh Magazine, published by the Assyrian Foundation of America in Berkeley CA, when he received much encouragement from its editor Julius Shabbas. The subject of his articles, almost always accompanied by rare photos, deal mainly from personalities, events, and places in our century. A list of Solomon’s books: The Assyrian Levies, A Short History; A Family History; Prominent Assyrians (published in 2001), A biographical book on modern personalities; and Chapters from Modern Assyrian History (published in 2002).

               He was married to Joan and she passed away in 2015 and his stepson Timmy passed away in 2016. He volunteered for Tennova Healthcare for over 15 years. He is survived by his sister Khatoon in Ft Wayne, IN., his brothers, Joseph and David in Tampa, FL., stepson Tom in Lebanon, TN, and 19 nephews and nieces and 44 grandnephews and grandnieces.

               Arrangements by Sellars Funeral Home, Lebanon TN, 615.444.9393.