Anne Gluzinsky Zikos (1922-2018) was born to Ukrainian immigrant parents in a farming and mining area of Pennsylvania. She was one of thirteen children. At 14, she moved to New York City to help support her family. When a brother died while serving in the Army, she enlisted in the Women’s Army Corp to take his place. She served as a control tower operator for troop transport gliders in Lubbock, TX for the remainder of WWII. She became friends with one of the women she was stationed with, Helen Zikos of Manhattan.
Anne began writing Helen’s brother George, an Infantryman stationed in the Aleutians. After the War, Anne and George met, married, and eventually had ten children. The Zikos family lived in Woodside, Queens until the early 1960’s, Trenton, NJ through the middle 1970’s, then Hammond, NY until 2004. Anne moved in with her youngest children, in Syracuse, NY until her passing. She is survived by five of her children: Mary, Zeke, Joseph, Roe and Nan, and, three grandchildren: Dave, Terri and Tim.
She shared her lifelong love of books, music, fine foods and gardens with all of her children, and they will be forever grateful.
Anne was a devout Catholic all her life. She will be buried in a consecrated plot near Hammond with her husband and their children Cathy, Tom, Georgie, Mike and Terry, who died before her.
Donations may be made in her memory to: Disabled American Veterans; https://secure.dav.org/site/Donation
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