Anastasia Mariolis' Obituary
Anastasia (Petrakopoulos) Mariolis, a longtime resident of Salem, NH, passed away Friday April 5, 2024 at the age of 95. She was born in Athens, Greece to Nicholas and Irene (Kostantinides) Petrakopoulos. She will be deeply missed.
During World War II, she and her family were forced to share their Athens home with armed occupying Nazi and Italian officers. She then endured the years-long communist efforts to gain control of Greece. She studied opera and later used those skills in recording her copywritten song “Love me Once More” (March 1961). She worked at the Agricultural Bank of Greece where her father was a director. There she met Michael Mariolis, an officer of the United States Air Force whom she married in 1951. Her daughter was born in Occupied Berlin and her son was born in Ohio.
The family lived in Virginia up until Michael Mariolis retired as an Air Force Lt. Col in 1971. They moved to Salem NH, where Anastasia was an active member of the St. Constantine and Helen Church in Andover, MA. She was on the board of directors of the church and also active in the Order of the Daughters of Penelope and the Philoptochos Society. She was an avid storyteller leaving behind countless vignettes of humor and warmth, inspired by her early days in Greece.
Anastasia was the widow of Michael Mariolis who died in 1990. She is survived by her children, daughter Cheryl E. Mariolis of Boston, MA and her son, Constantine Theodore Mariolis and his wife Tara of Bolton, MA. Anastasia also leaves her two granddaughters, Elise A. Mariolis and Lauren A. Mariolis both of Bolton, MA; a cousin, Jean Petras of New York City, as well as many relatives in Greece.
Relatives and friends may celebrate Anastasia’s life with visiting hours on Friday April 12, 2024 from 10:00am – 11:00am at Saints Constantine and Helen Church, 71 Chandler Road, Andover, MA followed by a funeral service at 11:00am in the church. Interment will follow in the Linwood Cemetery in Haverhill, MA. Arrangements are under the direction of the Kenneth H. Pollard Funeral Home in Methuen, MA.
The family asks anyone wishing to send flowers to have them sent directly to the church.
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