A nearly 50-year-old Jacksonville business closed in April, but its legacy will live for years.
After 89-year-old Ray Nasrallah Sr. died Aug. 14, 2021, his wife and business partner, Annie, and their children Karen Nasrallah, Joey Nasrallah and Mary Nasrallah Thornton, were faced with whether to try to keep the doors open at American Import Lighting, the lighting fixture business Ray Sr. started in a storefront in San Marco.
All the siblings, including their brother, Ray II, who died at 57 in 2018, grew up working in the store after school, but they knew keeping American Import open without their father was not a realistic option.
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