Anastasios Peter Mermegas was born on December 21, 1932 in Kalavrita, Greece, and he fell asleep in the Lord on February 1, 2022, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Peter and Georgia Mermegas. Anastasios emigrated to the United States from Kalavrita in 1952, and he settled in Hartford, Connecticut, with the relatives who had been instrumental in assisting him in making his voyage to America. It was in Hartford where he first began to work in the restaurant business, which would ultimately become his lifelong passion and profession.

Anastasios married Maria Loukopoulos in May 1955. Maria had emigrated to the United States from Aigion, Greece, and she had also settled in Hartford. They had one daughter Georgia, whom they raised in Hartford. Anastasios owned and operated several very successful restaurants in the Hartford area from the early 1960s through the early 1980s. In 1982, Anastasios and Maria moved to San Francisco where he opened, owned and operated Ernesto's, a most successful Italian family restaurant until he retired in 2008.

Anastasios and Maria returned to the East Coast in 2009, when they moved to the town of Wayne, Pennsylvania, where they resided until his falling asleep a few days ago.

Anastasios was a self-made man who worked tirelessly throughout his entire life. He will be remembered for his humility, his kindness, his generosity, and his abiding love and his many sacrifices for his family and his friends. His greatest joy in life was to demonstrate his deep affection for his family and his friends by bountifully hosting them as often as possible, with beautiful food and wonderful wine.

Anastasios will be profoundly missed by everyone who knew him, but especially by his family. He is survived by his wife Maria, and by their daughter Georgia Mermegas Skeadas and her family, including her husband Christos Skeadas, their son Peter Christos Skeadas, his wife Amanda, their daughters Penelope Rose and Amelia Poppy, and their daughter Mariana Skeadas Wheat, her husband Jeffrey, and their daughter Anastasia Marie.

Church services for Anastasios will be held on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, located at 433 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06114. Visitation will be at 10am, and the funeral will be at 11am.

Because of Anastasios' devotion to his family, to his faith, and to his fellow man, please know that donations to honor his memory would be appreciated, to the following organizations:

St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 433 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06114

St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church, 35 North Malin Road, Broomall, Pennsylvania 19008

National Philoptochos Society, earmarked for "Social Services", 126 East 37 ^th Street, New York, New York 10016

May Anastasios' memory be forever eternal.
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