Eleni (Halkiadakis) Papoutsakis, 80, died Sunday morning, March 15th, 2009 at Saint’s Memorial Hospital, surrounded by loved ones.
Eleni was born March 25, 1928 in Rogdia-Kissamou-Chania, Crete, Greece a daughter of the late Michalis and Maria(Papadakis) Halkiadakis. She was the wife of the late Nikos Papoutsakis who past away March, 5 1985.
She immigrated to the United States in 1980 and worked in Lowell as a seamstress for Jampa manufacturing. She was the loving mother of eight children and sixteen grandchildren. She enjoyed reading, listening and watching Greek programs, and, most of all, spending quality time with her children and grandchildren, whom she cherished dearly. She was a member of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell, Massachusetts, the Pancretan Association of America, Acrotiri chapter of Merrimack Valley.
In the United States, she is survived by her children Despina (Debbie) Mattheos and her husband Dimitrios, Evangelos Papoutsakis and his wife Maria, from Lowell, MA; Antonios Papoutsakis and his wife Sofia from Lawrence, MA; Eleni Lirantonakis and her husband Christos from Salem, MA. Here in the United States, she is also survived by eight grandchildren: John, Steven, and Mary Ellen Mattheos; Eleni ( Papoutsakis) and her husband Alex Grillakis, and Nikos Papoutsakis; Elena Papoutsakis; Vicky and Nikoleta Lirantonakis.
In Greece, she is survived by her children Marika Psihogios and her husband Georgios from Koropi Athens, Michalis Papoutsakis and his wife Stella from Athens, Electra Agrogiani and her husband Panos from Amfilochia, Alexia Kioufetzi and her husband George of Athens; eight grandchildren, Athanasios, Nikos, and Marina Psichogios; Nikos and Despina Papoutsakis; Olga, Elena, and Danae Kioufetzi; two brothers, Nikos and George Halkiadakis, and a sister Katina Georgakaki. She also leaves behind three great grandchildren and many cousins, nieces, and nephews here in the United States, as well as in Australia, Greece, and specifically on the island of Crete.
Relatives and friends will be received at the M.R. LAURIN & SON FUNERAL HOME, 295 Pawtucket St., Lowell on Tuesday from 4 to 8 pm. Her funeral will take place from the Funeral Home on Wednesday at 10am with a funeral service to be held the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell at 11am. Interment to follow in Westlawn Cemetery, Lowell. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, memorial donations may be made in her memory to the Hellenic American Academy of Holy Trinity or to the Filoxenia House of Boston.