Believe in Miracles

Over the weekend was laid to rest Georgia Photopulos, 77, someone we knew growing up at Sts. Peter & Paul in Glenview, IL. Church for Georgia was "a place I would be welcomed, a place where I could leave my problems and find peace of mind." The sum of her life reveals how miraculous it was: 19 cancer operations, 43 years beating it! She had polio as a child, and received hormone fertility treatments in the early 1960s, but she didn't define these as causes but preparation, according to her book, "Of Tears and Triumphs." Among her accomplishments: finding a steadfast husband Bud (He's a journalist, and she took heart in his baptismal name, Socrates. They wrote the book together about surviving cancer.) She also invented a wig, started a help line and even worked for the FBI as a Greek translator. And her childhood Greek school teacher? None other than my grandfather Constantine. She'd remind me of his Humboldt Park lessons, at church coffee hour.

The Chicago Tribune obit lays out Georgia's life and family.

Εternal Memory!