At Kifissia Cemetery, in a close circle and to the sounds of her favorite songs, the curtain fell for Marinella

Accompanied by the melodies of her songs “Never Be Lost from My Life” and “Sometimes,” played connected upwind instruments by her musicians, Marinella was laid to remainder a abbreviated portion agone astatine Kifissia Cemetery, bringing the curtain down connected a large vocation and a singular life, afloat of galore important milestones and filled with love.

The beloved performer, who near her people connected 7 full decades of Greek music, took 1 last travel done Athens arsenic her assemblage was transferred from the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens—where the ceremonial work had been held earlier—to Kifissia Cemetery, chosen by her household arsenic it is adjacent to the location wherever they each lived together.

At Kifissia Cemetery, successful a adjacent ellipse and to the sounds of her favourite songs, the curtain fell for Marinella
Her lone daughter, Tzortzina, on with her hubby and their 2 children, accompanied the assemblage of their beloved parent and grandmother

There, her beloved lone daughter, Tzortzina Serpiéri—who had remained perpetually by her broadside during her illness—her 2 grandchildren, and her cherished sister Loula, with whom she had lived for galore years, bid her a last farewell. The emotion was intense, the goodbye difficult, yet it was carried retired with modesty and discretion, conscionable arsenic Marinella had lived her idiosyncratic life.

At Kifissia Cemetery, successful a adjacent ellipse and to the sounds of her favourite songs, the curtain fell for Marinella
Haris Alexiou and Giorgos Dalaras, who delivered the moving eulogies astatine the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, accompanied their beloved Marinella to her last resting place

At the burial, which the household had wished to beryllium held privately, successful summation to relatives, respective artists who had adjacent ties with Marinella were present, including Haris Alexiou and Giorgos Dalaras—who besides delivered the affectional eulogies astatine the Cathedral—Stamatis Fassoulis, Lakis Lazopoulos, Giannis Vouros, Natassa Theodoridou, and Zeta Makrypoulia.

At Kifissia Cemetery, successful a adjacent ellipse and to the sounds of her favourite songs, the curtain fell for Marinella
Antonis Remos and his woman Yvonne Bosniak could not beryllium absent from the funeral, arsenic they shared a adjacent enslaved with her

And so, connected a sunny March afternoon, Marinella “changed skies,” crossing the threshold of eternity, leaving down the “immortal water” of her songs and the enduring memories she created passim her agelong life.