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Katherine (Kapranopoulos) Lambiris

Posted 2017-01-10 by mhenderson
Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, AZ
>>> Published on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 <<<

Katherine Lambiris, 81, of Lake Havasu City, passed away Jan. 5,
2017.

She was born to Harilaos and Evdokia Kapranopoulos Sept. 24, 1935 in
Tsaritsani, Greece.

Katherine immigrated through Ellis Island, N.Y. in 1946 and was
raised and schooled in Manchester, N.H., where she graduated from
Central High School. Katherine met her future husband, Antonio, and
they married Jan. 29, 1956, in Manchester, N.H. They resided in
Ontario, Calif., Anchorage, Alaska and Upland, Calif., prior to
moving to Lake Havasu City in 1995.

She enjoyed many interests in her life that included being a member
in the Philoptochos Society in Upland, Calif., the Greek Orthodox
Church; reading, boating, fishing, cooking, baking, knitting, making
bi-monthly trips and playing at the Pioneer Hotel in Laughlin, Nev.,
and most of all being a wife, mother to her two daughters,
grandmother to her six grandchildren and great-grandmother to her
six great-grandchildren. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Katherine is preceded in death by her parents, Harilaos and Evdokia
Kapranopoulos.

She is survived by her beloved husband of 60 years Antonio,
daughters Susan Zimmerman and Toni-Lynne Pilieci, brother John
Kapranopoulos, sister Fanny Canotas, six grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.

A funeral service for Katherine is at Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home
Chapel, 21 Riviera Blvd., Lake Havasu City, Arizona at 1 p.m.,
Thursday, Jan. 12.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Havasu.

Services were placed in the care of Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home.

Thoughts and condolences can be made to the Lambiris family at
www.lietz-frazefuneralhome.com.




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