Her Life in Lines

• Her parents were from Shweifat: Abdallah Elias Atallah, and Husn al-Khoury Esber al-Baridi

• Her uncle was Bishop Athanasius, Metropolitan of Homs, 1886–1923

• Our Rose was born in Beirut in the spring of 1890

• She was schooled at three schools, with the English and the Americans

• Her address at her graduation ceremony, in Broummana: "The Bedouin and the Settled"

• She married Sarhan Tamer Shahfa in May 1909

• She was blessed with three sons and a daughter: William, Albert, Emile, Suad

• She lived in Damascus 16 years, a quarter of her life

• She returned to Beirut 30 years ago and settled there

• She spoke out much in the two tongues of the Arabs and the English

• She wrote in several newspapers and magazines

• She spoke at numerous ceremonies, in the capitals of Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt; at the Arab Scientific Academy of Damascus, at the American University of Beirut, at Bkerke, seat of the Maronite Patriarchate, and at several women's congresses

• She presided over the board of the Ladies' Club in Damascus, the association of mothers of graduates of the Ahliah National College for girls in Beirut, and the associations of the Lebanese Women's Union

• His Excellency the President of the Republic of Lebanon decorated her with the gilded Order of Merit, at the celebration of her Union's silver jubilee, 1947

• She gathered her book "The Inspiration of Motherhood" in 1950

• Her health declined for two years

• She passed into the mercy of God at Beit Mery on the morning of Sunday, August 9, 1955

• She was buried in Beirut on August 10, 1955.