Edith Antonopoulos, Marie Edith Lucille died at the Scarborough General Hospital on July 15, 2022 in her 77th year. She leaves behind her husband, Georges Antonopoulos, her daughter, Anna Antonopoulos, one sister, Diane Girouard-Susak, Nepean, ON, one brother, Maurice Girouard of McLean Settlement, NB, one brother-in-law, Peter Antonopoulos(Viki), Scarborough, ON, three sisters-in-law: Florence Cormier-Girouard, Winnipeg, MB, Rubini Vestakis and Sofia Antonopoulos, Athens, Greece, several nieces and nephews in Canada and in Greece. A younger brother, Eric Girouard, predeceased her in 2005.

She was born in 1945, the second daughter of Aquilina Boudreau and Henry Girouard of McLean Settlement, NB. She attended elementary and secondary classes at Ecole Centrale Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, NB. She graduated from the Saint John General Hospital, Saint John, NB, as a Registered Medical Technologist and worked in Fredericton, NB before moving to Toronto where she met and married George in 1975. She worked as Senior Charge Tech of Hematology and Coagulation at the Toronto General Hospital, then the University Health Network, until retirement in 2003.

She was an accomplished water colour artist, a long time member of the Willowdale Group of Artists and the Toronto Watercolour Society, having had several paintings accepted in curated exhibitions and being awarded various prizes and accolades.

Visitation with family and friends will be held on Wednesday July 20, 2022 from 4-8 pm and on Thursday July 21 from 10–11 am at the Elgin Mills Funeral Home, 1591 Elgin Mills Road East, Richmond Hill, ON, L4S 1M9. A funeral service will be held at the same location at 11 am on July 21 followed by internment in the Elgin Mills Cemetery.