Deena M. Mistri

Deena M. Mistri (21 May 1925 27 January 2011) was an educator from Pakistan.

Early life and education

Mistri was a member of the Parsi or Zoroastrian community. She was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, on 21 May 1925, to Dhunmai and Seth Pestonjee Jamshedji Soparivala.

She married the architect Minoo Mistri in 1949. They were married for 57 years. Her husband died in 2006.

Career Deena Mistri started teaching English to the secondary classes in 1951. She became the principal of the Bai Virbaijee Soparivala Parsi High School in 1972 and then served in that position for many years the same school that was founded by her great-grandfather Seth Shapurji Hormusji Soparivala in 1859.

She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship from the US in 1962, where she completed her Diploma in Education. In America, she taught at the University of Athens in Ohio and at the University of Texas at Austin as a visiting professor.

She was given Honorary Citizenship to Texas by Governor Price Daniel in 1962 for teaching at a local high school in Austin, Texas, and as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Death Mistri died on 27 January 2011 at age 85 as a result of a brain infarction. In 1992, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy and had recovered. She is survived by her two sons. Her funeral was held on 29 January in Karachi, with over 2,000 attending her funeral to pay their last respects.