Georgia Ravanis Fennessy, 82, died peacefully with her family by her side on October 25, 2011 in Mt. Auburn Hospital, after a brief illness. She was a lifelong resident of Cambridge, until the past three years when she shared residences in both Cambridge and Plainville with her sons. Born January 21, 1929 at her family's home on Decatur Street, she was the daughter of Xenophon Ravanis and Constantina Skaltsis Ravanis. She was the wife of the late Robert Holmes Fennessy, Sr., originally from Brookline, who passed away in 2008. She was the sister of the late Mary Ravanis Pappagianopoulos, Peter Ravanis, James Ravanis, Rose Ravanis Yakes, and her sole surviving sister, Catherine Ravanis West, currently of Somerville. She was the loving sister-in-law of Ernestine Ravanis of Winchester, and her best friend since high school days, Josephine Kontos of Arlington. She leaves her two beloved sons, Kevin Fennessy and his partner Michael Pavelecky, both of Cambridge, and Robert Fennessy of Plainville. She also leaves her two dearly loved granddaughters, Amy Suzanne Fennessy and her boyfriend Matt O'Brien, and Erin Suzanne Fennessy, a senior at King Phillip Regional High, all of Plainville, and her loving former daughter-in-law, Susan Rogers Fennessy, also of Plainville. She also leaves her many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews, family and friends. She was a communicant of St. Mary's Parish in Cambridge, and St. Martha's Parish in Plainville. Mrs. Fennessy was a long time employee of Bell Telephone, AT&T and Western Electric until she took an early retirement in the early 1970's. She loved and supported her sons in all of their activities: her son Kevin, an actor, theater director, and former casting director/owner of Kevin Fennessy Casting in Cambridge, and her son Robert, a Walpole Attorney, and long time elected Selectman for the Town of Plainville. She was an avid theatre-goer, movie and sports fan, and traveler, and took great pride in visiting the Presidential Libraries throughout her many road trips with her husband Bob. After retirement, she enjoyed occasional work in locally shot movies, such as a featured "Lady in the lawn chair" in the movie The Love Letter (hand-selected by director Peter Chan), and as a principal performer as the perfect grandmotherly type in commercials for Nabisco's Fruit Newton and Fig Newton cookies, and for Southern New England Bell, (one of the phone companies created by the dissolution of Bell Telephone), and often joked about being back with "Ma Bell" again. Until recently, she was very active in the Cambridge Senior Center, where she enjoyed participating in weekly line dances, and exercise classes. A Greek "YiaYia (Grandmother), she was very active in her grandchildren's lives, attending sporting and other events throughout their lives. Nearly all of their friends and community members, even her neighbors, knew her merely as "YiaYia". She was most known for her beautiful smile, her kind and gentle nature, her eternal optimism, and her genuine love for people and all of God's creations.