[2] She emigrated to the United States as a teenager and lived in New York City, Jacksonville, Florida,[citation needed] and Macon, Georgia, where her grandmother found her a husband when she was 16.
She married Ralph Bobo,[2] an Egyptian of Jewish heritage,[3] and started in the grocery business with her husband in Georgia in 1922.
[1] The Bobo family bought the property for the Blue Ribbon Supermarket in 1967, and later sold it to Austrian developers after operating it for decades.
[5] Her cooking, blending Syrian and Southern American cuisine, has been covered in publications such as the Tampa Tribune.
In 2002, her first grandchild published the cookbook Mezza & More, Syrian Fare With a Southern Flair, including hundreds of her recipes.