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Nickolaos E. Tzortzopoulos

This is to inform everyone who had the privilege to have known and loved my father, Nickoloas E. Tzortopoulos born Karavas 1939, that he has lost his battle of the past one and a half years, to pancreatic cancer. Nick ha...

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John Cordato - Eulogy - Born 13-5-23; Died 25-6-09

Ο Γιάννης Κορδάτος γεννήθηκε στο χωριό Ποταμός, στα Κύθηρα, στις 13 Μαίου 1923. Σε ηλικία 13 χρονών οι γονείς του, Διονύσης και Μαρία, τον έστειλαν στην Αυστραλία για μια καλυτερη ζωή. Δυστυχώς, δεν είχε την ευκαιρία να...

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An Obituary for Theodore Simos.

O Kosmos, Sydney. Wednesday 3rd of June, 2009, page 24. All the photographs on this page derive from www.kythera-family.net Theodore Simos article in Kosmos newspaper.pdf Theodore Simos, Notable Kytherian

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Zacharia Stavros Souris,

...or ZAC as he was known to all of us, was born in Taree NSW on 11 September 1925, the youngest child of Kytherian immigrants Kanella (nee Vernardos) and Stavros Souris. His older sister Chris predeceased him. Zac's par...

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Dimitri (Vlahos) Diakopoulos

Is the fragility of Death linked to seismic activity? While the Greek mass media speculates about a futuristic natural catastrophe, this week Kythera has been plunged into deep grief with the sad passing of two popular p...

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Professor Nicolas Coldstream

Professor Nicolas Coldstream Professor Nicolas Coldstream, who has died aged 80, was a leading scholar of Greek archaeology and one of its greatest teachers. His work on the Early Iron Age in Greece, Crete and Cyprus and...

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Nicholas Cominos

March 21, 2008 Nicholas H. Cominos (1923 - 2008) War Hero, Film Maker and Educator Nicholas Cominos passed away peacefully at his East Bay home on March 14, 2008 at age 84. Mr. Cominos' family emigrated from the island o...

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Helen Notaras.

Hundreds mourn ACT's Greek matriarch The Canberra Times 17 November 2007 Reporter: Claire Low A sea of about 400 black-clad mourners packed into the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas yesterday in a show of respect fo...

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Mary (Marigoula) Diacopoulos

Mary’s story is not unusual or unique. However it is a story that will soon have its roots in history rather than the recent past, as she was one of a generation of migrant women who married and then came to Australia as...

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Harry P. Notaras 1897-1959

Feb. 26, 1959 Appleton Post-Cresent Newspaper (USA) Harry P. Notaras, 62, 121 E. Roosevelt Street, a restaurant and tavern owner in Appleton, Wisconson for many years, died unexpectedly at 4:30pm Wednesday at his home. H...

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James Agapitos.

Art world loses a passionate collector and benefactor Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney. January 4, 2007 Clara Iaccarino Arts Writer JAMES AGAPITOS, the owner of the nation's largest collection of Australian surrealist art,...

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