Born:
Trikala, Greece
March 15, 1920
Died: February 4, 1999
After World War II, Mordechai Roussos moved to Israel where he married his wife Riki Roussos, a survivor from Sarajevo, in 1950. Their son Eli arrived the following year and daughter Sarah was born in 1952. Pursuing Mordechai’s longtime dream, the family came to the United States in 1962. They settled in Columbus, Ohio. In 1977, Riki and Mordechai moved to Houston to be near their grown children.