Katina (Ekaterini) Muksuris, 78, was called home into the arms of our Lord on Friday, July 25, at St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, following a brief illness and complications from COVID-19.

Katina (Kathy) was born on September 11, 1946, in Constantinople (Istanbul), Türkiye, to Konstantinos and Kalliope Andriyiatidis. As the youngest in her family, she was preceded in death by her siblings Demosthenes (Amalia, Erica) Andriyiatidis in Trelleborg, Sweden, Cleopatra (Giannoulis) Tzanetis in Rhodos, Greece, and two other siblings who passed away in childhood before she was born, Katerina and Stefanos.

Katina met the love of her life during her sophomore year in high school, Sotiris Moussouris (later, Muksuris), and they were married on August 8, 1966. In 1968, they gave birth to their only child, Stelyios, and moved from Constantinople to Boston, MA, where they settled down with their son. Katina worked as a quality control supervisor for Teledyne Crystalonics in Cambridge, MA, for over 17 years, leading a team of women inspecting computer microchips and motherboards. She was an incredible homemaker, teacher, mentor, mother, grandmother, wife, sister, aunt, and friend. Her cooking was unbeatable, her cleanliness and orderliness pristine. She single-handedly took care of her husband, Sotiris, who passed in 2012, for over a decade after he fell severely ill following his many surgeries and leg amputations. She also took care of her mother-in-law Anna during her ordeal with cancer before she died in 1985.

Her faith in Christ and her patience (and stubbornness) were beyond extraordinary, as was her piety and unwaning faith. She was a lifelong steward of St. Athanasius the Great Greek Orthodox Church in Arlington, MA. She prayed to the Lord day and night on her knees, and she gracefully turned every encounter with friend and stranger into an encounter with the living God. Katina joyfully cooked for countless people in her apartment building, where she lived for 50 years, and shared words of encouragement and a radiating smile with everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs. Everyone would say, "Wow, that God of Kathy – the one she calls Christ, He must be the one true God!"

Kathy was loved by everybody – family, friends, and strangers – and she loved everybody. She was especially proud of her granddaughter Katerina, whom she baptized together with Sotiris in Greece in 1996. She gave her entire life over to her son, Fr. Stelyios, whom she raised with utmost dedication and care, in words and deeds and by her saintly example. Both Sotiris and Kathy were elated to raise their son to become not only a priest of the Church but also a professor and leading scholar of liturgical theology.

Due to the onset of dementia (Alzheimer's Disease) around 2020, Fr. Stelyios and Presbytera Georgia moved Mom down to Pittsburgh to live with them, which she joyfully did for four beautiful years. Her last words in the ICU of the hospital, responding to her son's words by her bedside, "I love you, Mama", were: "I love you more, my son."

She is survived by her son, the V. Rev. Dr. Stelyios Muksuris, Ph.D., daughter-in-law Georgia (née Petromilonaki), of Pittsburgh, her precious granddaughter, Dr. Katherine Muksuris, Ph.D., of Pittsburgh, and her brother-in-law Stelios Moussouris of North Andover, MA, as well as many nephews and nieces around the United States and Greece.

Visitation will be at St. Athanasius the Great Greek Orthodox Church, 4 Appleton St., Arlington, MA, 02476, on Monday, August 4th, 2025, from 10 until 11 AM. The funeral service will be held at 11 AM. Interment will follow at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA.

Memorial donations may be made to St. Athanasius the Great Greek Orthodox Church in Arlington, MA, or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.

May her memory be eternal.