Bahá'í History in Northern Nevada
David Mayberry, Chairman
Ray Cheatham, Vice Chairman
Robert Takashi Imagire, Secretary
Florence Mayberry, Treasurer
Mary Bode, Member
Gladys Bodmer, Member
Helen Griffing, Member
Margery Dixon, Member
Myrtle Robinette, Member
On October 1-2 and October 26th, 1912, Abdu'l-Baha, son of Bahá'u'lláh was the first Baha'i in Nevada. He crossed Nevada from Salt Lake City through Reno to California on the train and returned from California back across Nevada through Reno on the train going east to Denver.
1912 - First Bahá'í in Nevada
First Local Spiritual Assembly (LSA) of
Reno, Nevada formed on April 20, 1943
This was one of the first photographs of Miss Alexander (on right) after she returned to Japan following World War II. It was taken May 23, 1950
and shows Mr. Robert Imagire (on left), who came to Japan in 1947 at the request of Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith and grandson of Abdu'l-Baha. Mr. Saichiro Fujita is center front.
Email Communication
From: Robert Imagire
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013, 9:45 PM
To: Nevadam@gbis.com
Subject: Living member of the First Reno
LSA
Aloha dear Friends,
Arden Lee informed me that I was the only living member of the first Reno LSA. To form the LSA in Nevada through the efforts of Wm. Sears and his wife, and Leroy Ioas and his wife coming up every weekend to the home of Florence Mayberry, the Friends anxiously waited for me to become 21 years old (22 March) I was thus the youngest member of the first Reno LSA.
After Reno, I became member of the NSA (National Spiritual Assembly) Youth Committee, assistant to ABM (Auxiliary Board Member) of Virginia, pioneer at the request of Shoghi Effendi to Japan, was on the first LSA of Guam, pioneer to Cook Islands, and now to Hawai'i.
My prayers for the celebration and observance of the forming of the First LSA of Reno.
Love,
Robert
The above historical account is part of a 2013 compilation of research by Candy Fife, Reno Nevada - from:
Bahá'í News, Stars of the West, various genealogy sites, Nevada State Journal, and Reno Evening Gazette.