Athina S. Pratt of Arlington, Virginia, passed away peacefully in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 29, 2012. Mrs. Pratt was born in Athens, Greece on January 31, 1929. She moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1958, and married Paul H. Pratt (originally of Madisonville, Kentucky) to whom she was married for 46 years until his death in 2004, and with whom she had two children.
As a teenager, Mrs Pratt survived the German occupation of Greece and the civil war and famine that followed. In order to help her support her widowed mother, brother and sister, she worked for the Greek Red Cross, and later as a translator and clerk for the United Kingdom's Mission in Greece, which was tasked with coordinating Allied rebuilding of the country. She later moved to Great Britain where she resumed her work with the Red Cross.
She was a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia, where she had an active circle of close friends. Her family will remember her as a generous, forgiving and fierce woman who loved and protected them. All who knew her will remember her as a strong woman who was honest, smart and true to her word. She loved her friends and meeting new people, traveling, which she did extensively with her husband, Paul, along with preparing delicious meals - making all of her grandchildren the best french fries - and spending lots of time with her family.
She is survived by her brother Kostas A. Skiadas of Athens, Greece; her son, Lawrence Paul Pratt of San Jose, Costa Rica; her daughter Alexandra Pratt Gorman of Charlottesville, her daughter-in-law Carolina Mauri, her son-in-law Stephen Gorman and her grandchildren Isabella Gorman, Domenica Athina Pratt, Paulina Pratt and Jolyon Gorman.
--Adapted from obituary published in The Washington Post, December 28, 2012
As a teenager, Mrs Pratt survived the German occupation of Greece and the civil war and famine that followed. In order to help her support her widowed mother, brother and sister, she worked for the Greek Red Cross, and later as a translator and clerk for the United Kingdom's Mission in Greece, which was tasked with coordinating Allied rebuilding of the country. She later moved to Great Britain where she resumed her work with the Red Cross.
She was a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia, where she had an active circle of close friends. Her family will remember her as a generous, forgiving and fierce woman who loved and protected them. All who knew her will remember her as a strong woman who was honest, smart and true to her word. She loved her friends and meeting new people, traveling, which she did extensively with her husband, Paul, along with preparing delicious meals - making all of her grandchildren the best french fries - and spending lots of time with her family.
She is survived by her brother Kostas A. Skiadas of Athens, Greece; her son, Lawrence Paul Pratt of San Jose, Costa Rica; her daughter Alexandra Pratt Gorman of Charlottesville, her daughter-in-law Carolina Mauri, her son-in-law Stephen Gorman and her grandchildren Isabella Gorman, Domenica Athina Pratt, Paulina Pratt and Jolyon Gorman.
--Adapted from obituary published in The Washington Post, December 28, 2012
Athina S. Pratt of Arlington, Virginia, passed away peacefully in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 29, 2012. Mrs. Pratt was born in Athens, Greece on January 31, 1929. She moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1958, and married Paul H. Pratt (originally of Madisonville, Kentucky) to whom she was married for 46 years until his death in 2004, and with whom she had two children.
As a teenager, Mrs Pratt survived the German occupation of Greece and the civil war and famine that followed. In order to help her support her widowed mother, brother and sister, she worked for the Greek Red Cross, and later as a translator and clerk for the United Kingdom's Mission in Greece, which was tasked with coordinating Allied rebuilding of the country. She later moved to Great Britain where she resumed her work with the Red Cross.
She was a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia, where she had an active circle of close friends. Her family will remember her as a generous, forgiving and fierce woman who loved and protected them. All who knew her will remember her as a strong woman who was honest, smart and true to her word. She loved her friends and meeting new people, traveling, which she did extensively with her husband, Paul, along with preparing delicious meals - making all of her grandchildren the best french fries - and spending lots of time with her family.
She is survived by her brother Kostas A. Skiadas of Athens, Greece; her son, Lawrence Paul Pratt of San Jose, Costa Rica; her daughter Alexandra Pratt Gorman of Charlottesville, her daughter-in-law Carolina Mauri, her son-in-law Stephen Gorman and her grandchildren Isabella Gorman, Domenica Athina Pratt, Paulina Pratt and Jolyon Gorman.
--Adapted from obituary published in The Washington Post, December 28, 2012
As a teenager, Mrs Pratt survived the German occupation of Greece and the civil war and famine that followed. In order to help her support her widowed mother, brother and sister, she worked for the Greek Red Cross, and later as a translator and clerk for the United Kingdom's Mission in Greece, which was tasked with coordinating Allied rebuilding of the country. She later moved to Great Britain where she resumed her work with the Red Cross.
She was a long-time resident of Arlington, Virginia, where she had an active circle of close friends. Her family will remember her as a generous, forgiving and fierce woman who loved and protected them. All who knew her will remember her as a strong woman who was honest, smart and true to her word. She loved her friends and meeting new people, traveling, which she did extensively with her husband, Paul, along with preparing delicious meals - making all of her grandchildren the best french fries - and spending lots of time with her family.
She is survived by her brother Kostas A. Skiadas of Athens, Greece; her son, Lawrence Paul Pratt of San Jose, Costa Rica; her daughter Alexandra Pratt Gorman of Charlottesville, her daughter-in-law Carolina Mauri, her son-in-law Stephen Gorman and her grandchildren Isabella Gorman, Domenica Athina Pratt, Paulina Pratt and Jolyon Gorman.
--Adapted from obituary published in The Washington Post, December 28, 2012
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