Olympia Eliades

Olympia Eliades, age 96, passed away Saturday, August 19, 2023, at Aurora Medical Center, Mt. Pleasant.

She was born in Grevena, Greece, February 13, 1927, daughter of the late Tourtis and Soultana Ananiadis.

On September 1, 1963, Olympia was united in marriage to Bob Eliades. She was employed by J. I. Case for eighteen years. Olympia was a long-time member of Kimissis tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church and the Ladies Philoptochos Society. She will forever be remembered for cooking traditional Greek food, world’s best pita and her love of crocheting and knitting.

She was loved dearly and will be sadly missed by her husband Bob, of sixty years; sons, Steve Christo, Constantinos “Dino” Eliades (Colleen Murray); brother, John (Ann) Ananiadis; sister, Maria Zarkos; sister-in-law, Sophia Ananiadis; nieces, nephews other relatives and dear friends. In addition to her parent’s she was preceded in death by 2 brothers, Sava and Paul Ananiadis and brother-in-law, John Zarkos.

Funeral services celebrating Olympia’s life will be held Thursday, August 24, 2023, 11:00 am, at Kimissis tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church, 1335 S. Green Bay Rd., with Rev. John Ketchum officiating. Interment will follow at West Lawn Memorial Park. Relatives and friends are welcome to meet with the family for Visitation, Thursday, 10:00 am until time of service at the church. Memorials to Kimissis tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church have been suggested by the family.

A very special thank you to Lefteri and Olympia Veziridis, Jeff and Nancy Kowalczuk and Mary Karapanos, along with other family members and friends for their loving and compassionate care shown to Olympia.