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Edward Najeeb Basha Jr. (August 24, 1937 – March 26, 2013) was the Chairman & CEO of Bashas', Inc., a grocery store chain in Arizona. His father, Eddie Basha Sr., and his uncle, Ike Basha, founded Bashas' in 1932.
Basha, 75, raised six children, rescued and expanded his father's grocery business, ran for governor and made countless friends. For years, Basha had appeared on...
Mainly, it is an era marked by two main characters: Najeeb and Najeeby Basha, a couple whose eight children included Ike and Eddie Basha, Sr., the men who one day would open that first store. Let’s begin at the beginning: Lebanon, 1884.
Lebanese immigrants Najeeb and Najeeby Basha arrived in Arizona in the late 1910s and set up a dry goods store in eastern Arizona mining towns. After suffering two different fires, they moved their family to Chandler and set up a dry goods store on the southwest corner of Boston and Washington Streets.
Apr 14, 2023 · Brother Basha is an elders quorum teacher and former stake president, high councilor, bishop, bishopric counselor and institute teacher. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to Edward Najeeb Basha Jr. and Sherri Ann Waterman.
May 18, 2018 · Najeeb Basha, 16 years old when he arrived in New York to assist his father, made the city his new home and mercantilism his new profession. In 1901, he married a fellow Lebanese immigrant named Najeeby Srour, and together the pair began raising a family from whose ranks Bashas' would be founded.
Though patriarch Najeeb Basha had passed away earlier in the year, his widow, Najeeby, would live for many more years, and would be a steadying and constant force in her sons’ new venture. Ike and Eddie’s six sisters all played key roles, too.
