Anastacia ''Ann'' Stathos, a retired Belmont elementary teacher, died of cancer on April 28, 2007 at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. She taught 4th grade at the Mary Lee Burbank Elementary School in Belmont for 45 years, and retired in 1993.
Known to generations of students as ''Miss Stathos'',she was a sitrict disciplinarian, who instilled in he students a lifelong love of learning. Over the years, students would often return to Burbank School to share their news about college, jobs and their families. She touched the lives of more than 1,200 students during her teaching career, and was the recipient of many teaching awards.
She loved traveling, reading and was especially proud of her Greek heritage. Her parents, Panagiota and Anthony Stathopoulos, immigrated from Greece in the early 1900's and settled in Cambridge, where Miss Stathos grew up in a tightly-knit Greek family and community. Her father, Anthony, founded the Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Cambridge, and owned a candy shop in Central Square.
Miss Stathos was a graduate of Cambridge Latin High School and attended Lesley College and Boston University.
She is survived by two sisters, Christine S. Glass of Wellesley Hills, and Mary Stathos Lynch of South Yarmouth; and two brothers, Charles of Lincoln and John of charlottesville, VA. She is predeceased by her sister Julia Stamalelos who died in 2002. She is also survived by several nieces,nephews,grandnieces and grandnephews.