Kalliopi Karoubas Obituary

Yiayia, I love you and miss you. I pray for you every night,whenever my priest prays i think of you. I love you so much,and you are the best! I love you poli poli poli,just so you know its fava.

To the most wonderful mother anyone could ever ask for: On June 8th I lost my best friend my beloved Haggy. No words could ever express how I feel about you.You always put us 1st on your list. Not a moment of each day will I ever stop thinking of you and all the wonderful things you taught me,all the wonderful memories you gave me. I just love you so much. The only peace I have is knowing that you are happy and pain free. Until we reunite my sweet mother, Kalivixta!!! I love you, love always and forever your Deboula.

Yiayia, you are the best ever and always will be. Yiayia I can't believe you are gone. I miss you poly poly poly. Yiayia the only good thing is you are in heaven. Yiayia don't ever forget me. From medicine boy, peter

Dear Gus and children,
My deepest condolences to you on the loss of your wife and mother Kalliope. In the years that we lived around the block from you, you were the best neighbors. I learned so much about baking Greek sweets from Kalliope when I would come over with my mom, and I always loved babysitting for the kids. For such a petite and gentle person, Kalliope had an amazingly strong spirit. I would visit my parents often, and she would walk by with the grandchildren. No matter how badly the cancer was treating her, she was always cheerful and kind. May her memory be eternal.
Sincerely,
Dori Poulos (daughter of the late George and Chryss Poulos)

To The Most Wonderful Mother anyone can ask for I will miss you dearly. Thanks for being the best friend I could ever have. You have raised me and taught me everything I know today. I pray that I can be just like you in every way!!!!!!! Mom I cant believe you are gone not one second goes by that I do not think of you and all the wonderful talks we have had. I cant wait until we meet again. I Love you, your daughter Venesa

Yiayia,

You are the best! Your were my best friend. and i love you and want to say thank you. i cant wait to see you again!!!

This is a letter from me to my grandmother which I started writing on May 30,9 days before her amazing trip.
Well im not sure when you will be reading this. I wasn't sure if I should let you see it before your amazing trip or just keep it a secret. My first thing I want to say is that I love you and I know a lot of other people love you too. But I feel like you were my mommy because you raised me. And I am the oldest grandchild so I probably feel the closest to you because it was just me and you for four years, without the other grandchildren.
Even though I am only 12 years old. I feel that in my life I've have been inspired by you. You have taught me to always be a young lady and just be the best Orthodox Christian that I can ever be. Though you're almost gone now, I will always remember all of the things that you have taught me. And I promise I will always try to pass it down to Nina, Layna, and Olivia. Though they wont be taught by you, I promise I will try my hardest to teach them all the amazing things you've taught me.
Every night I pray for a miracle to happen. And I know that people think this miracle I ask for is crazy, but sometimes I believe that God can help me. Every night I ask if He can let you be with me and everyone else until next year. I know that you think it's your time to go, but next year I will be graduating. And I know that you would love to see your granddaughter that you raised graduate and go into the next chapter of her life.
I would love for you to be there with me, and celebrate this amazing day with me. Sometimes when I pray I stop myself because I feel selfish. I feel selfish sometimes because I ask for you to be here with us longer. But I realized that you've been battling cancer for 13 years, and it must be really tough and I would never be able to feel the pain you go through physically and mentally. So sometimes I feel that if you really do want to go up to Heaven, I should accept the fact that its your decision.
I've realized that it's really hard loosing someone, I never knew it was this tough. And when people tell me ?'sorry about your grandma'', I feel like correcting them and telling them to say sorry about your mother, because that's what I feel like you are to me. You have been such a great lady your whole life. And I can say that im blessed to have you as a grandmother.
When I get a little sad thinking that you wont be here with me, I stop and think that you are going to be in a better place then all of us. And only very blessed people can be that fortunate to go there, and trust me even the Dispoti says it, you're flying straight up to heaven with no exceptions. All I have left to say to you yiayia is that all of us cant wait to reunite again one day!
I would like to thank each and every person who has been a part of my grandmother's journey. Myself, my mother, my father, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, and my Pappou are very fortunate to have family and friends who have supported us for the past six weeks. We wouldn't be able to make it without you. We'd like to give a special thanks to Papa Xristo for all of his prayers and blessings that he provided for my grandmother during the hard time of her battle of cancer. My grandmother has lied asleep and we'll always remember her beautiful blue eyes. But more importantly will always remember the beautiful smile on her beautiful face that she left us with.
My Mommy and Auntie Venesa and Auntie Dina would like to thank all of the ladies who made paximadia for us.

To our Koumbaro Gus and your children's families we extend our condolences and sympathy. Kaliope was loved very dearly by her godchild George Karson. She was the best Nouva a child could ever had, Kaliope baptized George when she was only 16 years old. It was a privilege and honor to know her and admire her faith in our Lord.
Love, Collette Sarlas & George Karson

I love my aunt. She was an example that we should all live by
she had
filotimo
filoxenia
love

We were sorry to read your sad news in the paper this morning. We loved our Koumbara Cathy deeply and will always remember her for the wonderful person that she was. Our deepest sympathy to our Koumbari and your families. Very sincerely yours, The Jim Panagiotaros Family

I will truly miss Cathy. She was a wonderful person. I will never forget all the good times we had in High School. We were always joking and having fun.
I express my deepest sympathy to her family for their loss.