Migrants- Agia Paraskevi

 

Family Name: Hatzixirou  
Name:  Efterpi
Year of Bith:  1927-2015
Father' Name: Efstratios (Agia Paraskevi)
Mother's Name:    Aspasia Menemeniou (Agia Paraskevi)
 Siblings:    Konstantinos, Maria (Mara)

Year of Arrival in Australia:

 1956
Sponsor:      Georgios Konstantellis (my fiance at the time)
Married:       Georgios Konstantellis (Agia Paraskevi)
City of Residence: Yarrawonga (Victoria), and Sydney, Australia
 Livelihood:   Small Business- Mayfair Cafe (Yarrawonga)

 

Above: My mother, Aspasia, with my brother, Konstantinos.

Above Right: Dressed in traditional dresses for Independence Day celebrations. L-R: myself, Terpsi Menemeniou, Afroula zahari, Mary Saraga, Anna Kalogera, Panagiota Sapouna. We are in fourth grade. 

  

Above: A portrait, as a teenager. 

Above Right: With my husband, Georgios Konstantellis, on our wedding day. 

  

Above: With my sisters-in-law, Eleni and Stella- I am in the middle. We have gone to Wagga Wagga for an outing.

 Above Right: My husband, Georgios, and I at the counter of our shop, the Mayfair Cafe in Yarrawonga. We lived in Yarrawonga for seventeen years.

Above: Outside the Mayfair Cafe.