At 85, ‘rebellious’ Lebanese matriarch embraces chosen life in America
Just a really nice story about brave woman and a survivor. 
The Charleston Gazette
Monday, October 27, 2014
At 85, ‘rebellious’ Lebanese matriarch embraces chosen life in America
By Sandy Wells, Staff writer
She calls herself a rebel. At age 18, back in Lebanon, she did the unthinkable. A single woman leaving home? Unheard of. But Sue Namay’s adventurous spirit got the best of her, of course. So she flew, alone, to America, to go to college in Springfield, Massachusetts. She planned to go back to Beirut and teach.
In Springfield, however, she met a handsome doctor, her beloved Eli, a general practitioner visiting from Charleston, West Virginia. He wooed her, married her and brought her to Charleston. She never looked back.
At 85, she remains in the 100-year-old home on Quarrier Street where she arrived as a bride in 1953.
Ten years later, with no warning, her robust prince charming died in his sleep at 46. She was 34, a widow with six children. With her characteristic warmth and humor, she reared her brood in that grand old house, a place brimming always with family and friends of all ages....
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