Column: He built a great life and family driving a cab. Then a passenger killed him
In mid-September I hailed a Yellow cab at Union Station for a ride to LAX, and my driver was an affable chap. Traffic was light and the ride was quick, but we covered a lot of ground.Oganes Papazyan, 62, said he had been a professional musician for many years and still played piano at his Armenian church and elsewhere, but as a family man, it was tough to make a decent living doing the thing he loved.
Gayane Telalyan, sister of Oganes Papazyan, 62, a cabbie who was killed last week, clutches a photograph of her brother during a visit to his home Friday. They laughed when I told them he didn’t endorse the idea, and Suzanna said she had tried the same trick with her father. He told me it would be more rewarding to put in the work and to understand and appreciate the beauty of music rather than be an impostor.Marina brightened when I asked her to tell me how she met her husband. It was in Yerevan, Armenia, she said, at the home of a young uncle of hers.
A wedding photograph from 1990 of Marina Papazyan and her husband, Oganes, is displayed at the family home in Burbank. Marina and her daughters reveled in such memories as they recounted their lives, momentarily distancing themselves from pain that will linger forever.
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