Kronfli Boustani

Our beloved mother, Kronfli Boustani passed to Glory surrounded by family on Saturday, June 25, 2022. 

The daughter of Zaheia and Chakeeb Hachem, Kronfli “KB” was born in Dhour Ain El-Haour, Lebanon on February 15, 1931 and immigrated to the US in 1978.

KB was the matriarch of her family business Gourmet Take Away restaurant of Salem, NH. She was passionate about her family, customers, friends, and healthy food. She was a member of Saint Anthony Catholic Maronite Church in Lawrence, MA. 

Preceded in death by her daughter, Fadia R., husband Racheed Mansour Boustani of Al-Debbieh, Lebanon; parents, Zaheia and Chakeeb Hachem; sister, Lemmia Azzi of Ain El-Haour Lebanon; sister, Lina and her husband Karam and their son Antoine Asmar of Lawrence.

KB was the beloved mother of Nadia Boustani Cardozo, Mansour “Manny” Boustani, Fadia Enright, Kamal Boustani, and Joseph Boustani and wife Carol; daughter-in law, Barbara Boustani; and sons-in-law, Peter Cardozo of Newmarket, NH and Thomas Enright of North Andover, MA; devoted grandmother of William Enright and his wife Jenna Vaillancourt Enright and their daughter Lyla of Haverhill, MA; beloved aunt to Mike Asmar and Shaker Asmar and their families of Methuen, MA; sister of Sleiman, Youseph, Raad and Edward El-Hachem of Ain El-Haour and Al-Debbieh Lebanon; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins here and globally. 

Her children express their utmost love and gratitude for the devoted care, support and love shown to their mother from her family and friends especially the Gourmet Take Away friends, customers and employees and the Boustani, Bistany, Hachem, Cardozo, Enright, Asmar, Azzi and Kattar families here and abroad.

A tribute to a one-of-a-kind, beautiful mother: https://www.facebook.com/gourmettakeaway.

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to St. Anthony Maronite Church, 145 Amesbury Street, Lawrence, MA 01841.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend visiting hours on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, from 4:00-7:30 PM at Cataudella Funeral Home, 126 Pleasant Valley Street in Methuen. A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at 11:00 AM at St. Anthony Church, 145 Amesbury Street in Lawrence. Burial will follow at St. Anthony Catholic Maronite Church Cemetery.