Individual Details
Dimitra I. Eliopoulos
(1 Jun 1887 - 6 Sep 1976)
Events
| Birth | 1 Jun 1887 | Machmoutbei now Amykles, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece |  | ||
| Residence | Bef 1905 | Brazil, Clay, Indiana, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1905 | Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 12 Jun 1905 | Of Machmoutbei now Amykles, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece - George Polyzios Carellas | |  | |
| Residence | 1912 | Baltimore County, Maryland, United States | | | |
| Death | 6 Sep 1976 | Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States | | ||
| Obituary | 7 Sep 1976 | Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States | | | |
| Burial | 8 Sep 1976 | Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States | | | |
| Alt name | Jenny Leopold | ||||
| FamilySearch ID | LKBK-5JN |
Families
| Spouse | George Polyzios Carellas (1872 - 1948) |
| Child | Mary G. Carellas (1906 - 1966) |
| Child | Athena Carellas (1908 - 1994) |
| Child | Eugenia Carellas (1911 - 1999) |
| Child | Leonidas George Carellas (1912 - 1995) |
| Child | Constantine or Gus George Carellas (1913 - 2004) |
| Child | Basil George Carellas (1914 - 1997) |
| Child | Vasiliki G. Carellas (1916 - 2008) |
| Child | Anthony George Carellas (1918 - 2013) |
| Child | Pina Carellas (1919 - 2008) |
| Child | Alexander George Carellas (1920 - 2015) |
| Child | Stavroula or Coule Carellas (1922 - 2017) |
| Father | Ilias Panagiotis Iliopoulos (1850 - ) |
| Mother | Christina (1859 - ) |
| Sibling | Georgios Ilias Iliopoulos (1876 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Peter Louis Leopold (1888 - 1963) |
| Sibling | Mary Iliopoulos ( - ) |
| Sibling | Evangeline Iliopoulos ( - ) |
| Sibling | Anastasios Ilias Iliopoulos ( - ) |
| Sibling | Spyridon Ilias Iliopoulos ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
Birth date from tombstoneIn 1921, the name of the village of Mahmoutbei was changed to Amyklai (or Amykles).
Residence
Lived in Indiana before moving to Savannah in 1905Residence
From Dimitra "Jenny's" obituary: moved to Savannah in 1905Moved to Savannah after she married.
Marriage
Metropolis of Sparta, Marriage IndexBook: Sparta,1899-Sept 1907; Page: 241-242; Year: 1905, Entries: 235-258
Entry #241
License Date: June 11, 1905
Marriage Date: June 12, 1905
Groom: Georgios Karellas; father: Polyz., village: Platana
Bride: Dimitro Iliopoulou; father: Ilias; village: Machmoutbei
Church Name: not given
First marriage for both bride and groom
Image DSC_0130
Photographed at the Metropolis of Sparta in Sparta, Greece by Carol Kostakos Petranek, July 2017
Residence
George Carellas and his wife, Dimitra, and daughters Mary and Athena are in a photo on page 21 of the book, House of God, Gateway to Heaven (Nicholas M. Prevas, 2007)Death
Death date and place from tombstone and obituaryObituary
Obituary, Jennie CarellaSavannah Evening Press, Tuesday, September 7, 1976
Mrs.Jennie Carellas, family head, dies at 90
Mrs. Demetra "Jennie" Carellas, 90, of 619 Tibet Ave., matriarch of a Savannah family that sent all five sons into the armed forces during World War II, died Monday night at the St. Joseph's hospital after a short illness.
Mrs. Carellas, widow of George P. Carellas, was born in Sparta, Greece, and moved to Savannah in 1905 during the great migration of Europeans to the United States in the early part of the century. During World War II, she displayed five stars in the window of her home to denote the military service of her five sons in the European and Asiatic-Pacific theaters of war. She often recalled those years as "one of the proudest of my life." All five sons returned home at the end of the war.
Mrs. Carellas was a member of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church and a member of the Ladies Philoptochos Society. She is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Athena Petras of Birmingham, Ala.,, Mrs. Basiliki Klonis of Gaineville, Fla., Miss Coule Carellas of Baltimore, Md., Mrs. Eugenia Angelakos and Miss Pina Carellas both of Savannah; her five sons, Leon Carellas of Miami, Fla., Gus, Basil, Tony and Alex, all of Savannah; two brothers, Basil Leopold of Savannah and Spero Leopold of Sparta, Greece; 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Two late brothers of Mrs. Carellas, Peter and George Leopold, operated the Leopold Brothers ice cream parlor along with her brother Basil for a number of years.
Trisagion services will be held 8 p.m. today. Sipple's Mortuary is in charge. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church with burial in Greenwich Cemetery.
Burial
FindAGrave:Jennie Leopold Carellas
BIRTH 1 Jun 1887Greece
DEATH 6 Sep 1976 (aged 89)Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
BURIAL Greenwich CemeterySavannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 148635880
Endnotes
2. Prevas, Nicholas M., House of God...Gateway to Heaven: Centennial History of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Baltimore, MD (Baltimore, MD: Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 2007), p. 21.
3. Obituary, Savannah Evenign Press, Tuesday, September 7, 1976, page 22.
4. Obituary, Savannah Evening Press, Tuesday, septembr 7, 1976 pg 22.