At the age of 102 one of the legendary women, who stood in the mountains of Pindos on the side of the Greek Army, during the War of 1940, passed away.

A few days before the commemoration of the warriors who resisted the Italian invasion from the morning of October 28, 1940 and wrote the last great Epic of Hellenism, the Athena Tsitsi – Papadopoulou, who was born and raised in the villages of Murgana.

Born in February 1922 in the lands of the recently liberated Thesprotia, the late Athena lived as an 18-year-old girl in her village, the then Ahouria of Vavouri, Thesprotia.

Together with other villagers from the first day of the declaration of war in 1940 she frantically carried the munitions and food, unreachable to the top of Plokista in the First Line, for as many days as the battle lasted, because it was impossible for the mules to climb there.

After the war, he raised a family in Pyrgos Ilias.

For her participation in the war effort, she was invited from time to time to Ilia to relevant events, declaring herself “present” at moments of remembrance, such as the annual Memorial Service at the Monastery of Frankopidimas, while in 2018 the Ministry of National Defense honored her for her contribution (together with the late her cousin Vasileio Papadopoulos) in a moving event at the Hall of the Regional Unity of Ilia in Pyrgos, at the initiative of the Association of the Soldiers of Ilia and the Folklore Club “Ilia Tradition”.

Her funeral service will take place tomorrow Wednesday at 4:00 p.m., at the I. Church of Agios Athanasios Pyrgos, while the burial will take place in Platanos (Achuria Vavouriou) in Thesprotia.