the claims in Betty's book. On August 23, 2009, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody died in Tehran, Iran, aged 70. The state news agency IRNA quoted his nephew, Majid Ghodsi, as reporting that he died in a hospital from kidney problems and other complications. Personal life Mahmoody is a devout member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod like her daughter Mahtob. In 1992 she was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, by Ferris State University as an honoris causa initiate. She has two sons from a previous marriage named Joseph and John, who are 13 and nine years older than Mahtob respectively. See also Phyllis Chesler, who was married to a Westernized Muslim man from Afghanistan Aurora Nilsson, who was married to a Westernized Muslim man from Afghanistan Debbie Rodriguez References 1945 births Living people Activists from Michigan American women writers Writers from Michigan People from Alma, Michigan American Lutherans 21st-century American women