Bob and Dolores Haig
"Uncle Bob" on his 95th Birthday
And a painting done by one of his friends and former
partner and apprentice
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Bob Haig at 92 is still one of America's
great portrait photographers and is the owner of
the acclaimed B. Artin Haig Photography of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bob Haig was recently
featured in the PBS Special Almost home dealing
with his on-going love affair with his wife
Delores and the complications from her
Alzheimer's syndrome. Haig is also a Hadjinsee
born Artin Hodja Babyan (Kojababian). Son of
Rachel Keshishian Kojababian.
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Bob Haig was recently
featured in the PBS Special "Almost home"
Press Release: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,
2006
"Almost Home, a cinema verité
documentary about a year in the life of people who live
and work in an “old age home,” rescues the true
stories of older adults and those who care for them from
an exile of denial. It’s a story of one community
trying to make a difference, shucking the institutional
trappings of traditional nursing homes in favor of a
place where we could all imagine ourselves feeling truly
“at home.”
Bob Haig is a healthy 90-year-old who still works in
the photography studio where he made portraits of nearly
every famous Milwaukeean. He is struggling to adjust to
the disappearance of Dolores, his wife who is succumbing
to Alzheimer's. Angry at losing her and the globetrotting
life they once shared, he sometimes lashes out at the
nursing home staff. Other times he pretends that the
disease doesn't exist, dressing her each morning complete
with full makeup, and taking her to parties. He
eventually comes to terms with Dolores' fate, and is left
to wrestle with his own loneliness.
 
Update: Bob and Dolores continue to
spend lots of time together, and Bob's relationship with
the staff is mostly harmonious these days. Though he was
briefly hospitalized for a bout of dizziness, Bob is
still devoted to his routine of work, civic engagement
and church. He hosted the filmmakers for a presentation
of ALMOST HOME to his Rotary Club chapter last February. http://www.almosthomedoc.org/
Fidieh Hadjincies in Adana
Bob
Haig is the little boy with the drum (Artin Hodja
Babyan).
Uncle Bob was here for Uncle Harold's Funeral in July,
2010. On that August 1st, 2010, He turned 96 years old.
Cousin (Uncle) Bob identified two of the riders in the photo: Ara is on
the left, Levon on right…
they were known as DeKozian in the States, but they were Kirkasharian’s,
Sons of Suzie Keshishian Kirkasharian
They were the family who took him in after the Turks killed his mother
(and Father)
Hadjin Turkey Home
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