Frezados, Penny

Born September 15, 1917. On March 26, 2010, our beloved 
Aunt, Penny Frezados, was gathered by the Angels and 
delivered to God, after which she was surely welcomed at 
the doors of Heaven by her sister, Judy Kiriazes, who was 
no doubt holding a bouquet created from Aunt Penny's 
garden, complete with Aunt Penny's magnificent red roses, 
sweet oranges and divine lemons, as she was led to her 
parents, Helen and Peter Kiriazes, her brother and his wife, 
James and Magdalene Kiriazes, her infant sister, her husband 
George Frezados, Uncle Nick Terzakis, Uncle George 
Terzakis, Uncle Tom and his wife Aunt Tacia Terzakis, as 
well as by her sweet Shih Tzu, Panda. Aunt Penny is 
survived by her niece, Marlene, her nephew, Peter and 
great-nieces, Christine, Alyssa and Katie and her Aunt Helen 
Terzakis Louiza. As a small child, she was offered a 
coveted role as one of the original Our Gang Little Rascals 
but her parents turned down the offer. As a young girl, Aunt 
Penny was active in her Greek Orthodox Church, performing 
in many of the church pageants held in the 1920s. After 
graduating from high school, she entered what would 
become a more than 40 year banking career by working at 
the Bank of America in Sacramento. Aunt Penny was the 
last of her immediate family and she was the primary care 
giver of so many of them. She was the loving care giver to 
her husband and along with Aunt Judy, she was the care 
giver in the final years of her parents. And, when Aunt Judy 
was felled by debilitating ALS, it was Aunt Penny who 
nursed her through those last, painful, challenging years. A 
promise made to our Aunt in her healthy years, that she 
would be allowed to live out her life in her own home, was 
a sacred promise kept. It was so important to her to remain 
in her home in her beloved Sacramento. Helping us live up 
to that promise and deserving of our special, profound and 
heartfelt thanks are beloved Stella and Lucas Kontes, Aunt 
Penny's cadre of beloved neighbors who hovered with 
watchful eyes, and beloved care givers, Anna and Ifereimi 
Murisiga, and Mary, before them. One last, exceedingly 
humble, heartfelt thank you to Dr. Pau Fong and his 
awesome staff, who kept Aunt Penny alive for 92 years with 
a good quality of life, a minimum of medicine and an 
absence of intrusive interventions. Well done, doctor! 
Friends are welcome for visitation Monday, April 5, 2010 
from 3:00 to 7:00 P.M. and are invited to attend a Trisagion 
Monday at 7:00 P.M. at NICOLETTI, CULJIS & HERBERGER 
Funeral Home, 5401 Folsom Blvd., 451-7284. Funeral 
Services will be held Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 11:00 A.M. at 
ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, 3022 F 
Street. Interment, East Lawn Memorial Park.

Published in The Sacramento Bee on April 2, 2010