Abraham was born in 1952 in Kerala, a small state in southern India. He was born into a very Roman Catholic family as one of eight children. His family was relatively poor and he only completed high school before having to quit and help run things in his household.
In 1991, he immigrated to the United States on a family visa as an unmarried man, because it was much easier to immigrate to the U.S as a single person rather than as a family.
In 1992, he married my mom and spent the first four years of their marriage separated while he was in America and she was in India. He would fly over often to visit her as they waited for her visa to be approved.
In 1997 he had his first and only child with my mom.
The Mathai Family 