Loula Kontogianis, Chicago native

Loula Kontogianis of Serfilippi Drive, a great-grandmother who moved to Ridgefield from Chicago 13 years ago, died Thursday, Oct. 26, at Danbury Hospital. She was 88, the wife of the late John A. Kontogianis, and mother of Ridgefield resident Anne Anaszewicz.
Mrs. Kontogianis was born in Chicago in May 1912, the daughter of the late Frank and Mark Karzis Kakarakis. A Ridgefield resident since 1987, she was a member of the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Danbury and former longtime member of St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago.
She enjoyed music, cooking, playing cards, but most of all, her family.
Besides her daughter in Ridgefield, she is survived by another daughter, Frances Lampa of Minnesota; a brother, James Kakarakis of Northfield, Ill.; two sisters, Thalia Geroulis of Chicago and Chris Kartsunes of Evanston, Ill.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home, 9-11 Granville Avenue, Danbury, handled arrangements. Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery in Chicago.
Contributions in Mrs. Kontogianis’s memory may be made to the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 30 Clapboard Ridge Road, Danbury, CT 06811.