Dear friends and family, please join us for a virtual celebration of Faysal's life. We wish that we could all be together to share stories and memories, but a virtual event is the next best thing! We will have a photo slideshow and time to share stories and memories of Faysal. Please send photos to jghoul@gmail.com in advance of the event and we can put them in the slide show. Photos can also be posted on the "mementos" tab of this page.

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Faysal Ghoul's Celebration of Life

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Faysal Ghoul

Faysal Hussein Al Ghoul was born in Jerusalem, Palestine on November 23, 1938, the first child of Hussein and Bahia Al Ghoul. It was a year of unrest in Europe and the year oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia. His home was built over 200 years before of huge stone blocks, warm in winter and cool in summer, overlooking Wadi Helwae, or “Beautiful Valley” and the ancient walled city and golden domed Mosque inside. Soon he had two brothers, Mohammed and Hidar. School was an important part of his life and he excelled in math. He played soccer with an improvised ball of rolled up rags.
His family moved to Haifa on the Mediterranean for several years but when the Zionists carried out the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the Western provinces, they fled in the middle of the night with only what they could carry, walking all the way to their home in Jerusalem. Faysal would never forget this traumatic event nor the terrible war that ensued.
His younger sister and brother, Taghreed and Anwar, were born and he graduated from high school with high marks. Soon he was able to secure a position with KOC, the Arabian-American oil company in Kuwait where he was a liaison officer between the enormous oil tankers that docked there and the port authorities. He had set his sights on studying in America and was very frugal, saving every penny so he could afford tuition and expenses while a student. With an acceptance to California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo, California he boarded an oil tanker headed for Philadelphia, and then flew to California.
At the time, there were many foreign students at Cal Poly, and he made friends from all over the world. It was in college that he was first called Sal, and the name stuck to this day.  It was the early sixties, and his major, Electronics Engineering, was just starting to take off. He found life in America strange at first, but he adapted quickly, and fit in like a native after a few short years, though he always retained his attachment to “the old country”, or belad. While in college, he met Donna, and soon they had eyes for no one else. Even before he graduated in 1966, he had several job offers and he joined a Sunnyvale firm, Western Microwave, as a design engineer. He was excited to be earning $600 a month with benefits, a top salary at that time. He got his first credit card, and his first purchase was a new TV.  He shared an apartment in a fancy complex with a swimming pool and was living the good life after all his hard work. When Donna graduated the following year, she rented an apartment down the street and they enjoyed visiting with friends and traveling around California. They were married in 1969 and began traveling overseas. Faysal was finally able to return to his home in Jerusalem and even though his mother had passed, he was delighted to see his father and all his siblings. On many different trips they went to England, Switzerland, Venice, Greece, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon.
During his career, he worked for several electronic firms including Lenkurt and finally Hewlett-Packard. He became a marketing engineer, for which he was well suited, using his considerable people skills to great advantage. Faysal and Donna’s first child, Asila Marie, was born December 22, 1980 and their second, Jamila Nicole, on March 18, 1986. He was a dedicated father and delighted to be a big part of their lives from feeding and changing diapers to throwing them into the air while they squealed with delight, and later helping with homework and giving them sound advice. All the kids in the neighborhood called him “Baba”, which is Arabic for Daddy. Faysal retained just enough of an accent to be charming and taught Donna and the girls common words and phrases so they could communicate with family in Jerusalem.
After 30 years together, Faysal and Donna decided to go their separate ways, although they remained close friends until his passing. In 2000, Faysal returned to his home to say goodbye to his father who was sick and passed away soon afterwards. It was on this trip that he met Ghada who would soon become his wife. Ghada returned to the United States with him, and they spent many happy years together. Over the years Faysal and Ghada traveled all over the world, to Egypt, Dubai, Turkey, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Hawaii. Faysal had always wanted to be a business owner, and in 2002 he and Ghada returned to Amman, Jordan where they bought a small grocery store that Faysal ran and operated with his brother Anwar. He became well-known in the area for being the Arab from America who always wore “flashy” shirts. They lived in Amman for three years, during which time Asila and Jamila visited, and they spent much treasured time with Faysal’s brother Anwar, sister Taghreed, and his many nieces and nephews. They also traveled around Jordan and Palestine to Petra, Jerash, Wadi-Rum, the Dead Sea, and Jerusalem. Faysal retired in 2005, and he and Ghada returned to the US to be closer to Asila and Jamila. Soon after, they sold the house on Bonny Drive, and downsized to their current home in San Jose.
In 2012, Faysal was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which was a devastating blow to the whole family. Despite the disease, Faysal remained his kind and loving nature, and loved spending time with his family. He met his first grandson, Laith (Asila’s son) in August, 2020, two months before he passed away of COVID on October 18, 2020. Faysal is survived by his wife Ghada; his daughter Asila, her husband Dylan, and his grandson Laith; his daughter Jamila and her husband Robertjan; his former wife and dear friend Donna; his sister Taghreed, her husband Khader, and their children and grandchildren; his brother Anwar, his wives Lameese and Haifa, and their children and grandchildren; his brother Mohammed’s children and grandchildren; his brother Hidar’s children and grandchildren; and many loving friends and extended family. Faysal will always be remembered by those who knew and loved him as a charming, funny, and devoted family man with a big heart.

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