March 22. On this date in 2013, Elizabeth "Libby" Bevan Golmohammadi, a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Rhodes , and a member of the first NSA of Sweden, died in China.

 

March 22. On this date in 2013, Elizabeth "Libby" Bevan Golmohammadi, a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Rhodes , and a member of the first NSA of Sweden, died in China.

Elizabeth Bevan learned about the Bahá’í Faith when she was young from Dorothy Baker, who would later be named a Hand of the Cause of God.

When she was 28 years old, she responded to the call by Shoghi Effendi’s for pioneers to arise and open territories where there were no Bahá'ís. In 1954,Shoghi Effendi named her as Knight of Bahá'u'lláh when she moved from her home in Los Angeles, California, to the Island of Rhodes where she remained until 1958.

Later she moved to Sweden, where she served the Faith with her husband, Rouhollah Golmohammadi, and raised her family. In 1962 Libby and Rouhollah Golmohammadi were both elected to Sweden’s inaugural National Spiritual Assembly, and the next year both served as electors at the first International Bahá’í Convention for the election of the first Universal House of Justice at Ridván in 1963.

In retirement Libby and her husband moved once again to Hungary, joining their daughter, Haleh, and served the Cause for four years in that country. In 1998 she and her husband returned to Sweden, where her died in 1999.

In 2004 at age 79 Libby moved to Tianjin, again to be near her daughter. She suffered a stroke in July 2011, nearly two years before her death on March 22, 2013.