Michael Tsourounis - Obituary

ichael (Mike) Tsourounis passed away peacefully on July 10, 2015, from Lewy Body Dementia. He was 68. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Mike was the second of three children born to Emanuel and Ann Tsourounis. His childhood was spent in Hopewell, Virginia, where he fondly remembered times in his grandfather’s grocery store with his “Papou” and also with his sister, brother and cousins in their tight-knit Greek community. In his teens, Mike’s family moved to Prince George’s County, Maryland, and he excelled in sports, playing football for the junior varsity and varsity teams at Oxon Hill High School. Unfortunately, his aspirations of playing college football ended with a knee injury and he instead earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Defiance College in Ohio, where he was a brother in the TKE fraternity. Mike returned to Maryland after college to work in his family’s restaurant business, which included the Port of Italy, the Italian Inn and Michael’s restaurants. At a Pan-Cretan convention in San Francisco in 1974, he met his future wife Athyne and they were later married in Salt Lake City. They settled in Calvert County, Maryland, where they raised their three sons. After Michael’s restaurant, Mike re-established himself as a real estate broker and appraiser, opening Calvert Appraisal & Realty Services, which served the residential real estate needs of Southern Maryland for nearly 20 years. During that time, he became active in the Calvert County Lions’ Club and held positions including Vice President and President. He was also a member of the Parish Council of Ss. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church. Mike is survived by his wife of nearly 40 years, Athyne Tsourounis, and children, Emanuel Tsourounis II, Nicholas Tsourounis, and Anthony Tsourounis and his wife, Lindsey; grandchild, Lucas Tsourounis; sister, Elizabeth Sava; aunts, Stella Tsourounis (and Alan Jones) and Georgia Tsourounis; among other family and close friends. He is preceded in death by his parents, Emanuel and Ann Tsourounis, and brother, George Tsourounis. Mike will be remembered as a loyal friend, a consummate jokester and a committed husband and father. He was also an avid hunter and gunsman and taught hunter safety courses. A visitation will be held on Friday, July 17, 2015, from 10am until time of a funeral service begins at 11 am at Ss. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church and interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens and Chapel Mausoleum, both in Annapolis, Maryland. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Mike’s memory may be made to the Hospice of Frederick County, P.O. Box 1799, Frederick, MD 21702-0799 (designated in support of the Kline Hospice House Fund), which provided great comfort to Mike and his family during the final days of his illness. An online guestbook by clicking the tab on this page.