Mary passed away on October 23, 2025 in Athens, after a year of struggle with illness. As a very beloved member of ACG 63, Mary was a trustworthy, kind, and affectionate person valuing everyone around her. She was always ready to help her friends with their problems and share their sorrows. After graduating from ACG, she completed Bosphorus University (Public Administration) and started to work firstly with Singer, and a year later with Fako, a pharmaceutical company, as the executive secretary of the chairman. In 1983 she retired and three years later she left İstanbul and moved to Athens where she longed for her homeland Turkey until her death. From 2000 to 2008, she read the news broadcasted by the radio Voice of Greece in Turkish. Her classmates of ACG 63 saw her for the last time in June 2017 when she came to İstanbul to attend the 50 th Reunion of her university class 67. At that last meeting, she was so cheerful and full of life inspiring her classmates to be happy and at peace with life. As her daughter says, “she was the best mother and the best grandmother of all”.
Mary is survived by his husband Koço Yuvanidis (former turkish national table tennis player), her daughter Evdoxia and her grandchildren Anastasia and Stamatis.
Contributed by Lale Arat Sirmen
