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Tryfonas D. Fotopoulos

March 14, 1931 — November 3, 2023

Tryfon Fotopoulos, age 92, was born in the rural village of Agios Giorgos in Greece on 14 March 1931. As a child he began working on the family farm for what amounted to decades of industrious, yet adverse, labor in the production of olive oil. While an adolescent during WWII, he served with valor for the resistance against Germany's occupation of Greece and later enlisted in the Greek Army. In 1970 he emigrated to America where he began a 40-year career manufacturing plywood at Bellingham, Washington’s Mt. Baker Plywood plant. In 1973 Tryfon married the love of his life Kanella (née Papadopoulos) in Tripoli, Greece whereafter they enjoyed 50 years of marriage. Tryfon was dedicated to the Greek Orthodox faith and enthusiastically contributed to his St. Sophia parish. Tryfon was a humble man, strenuous laborer, accommodating husband, and loving father to his sons: Dimitrios (b. 1974) and Sarantos (b. 1975). Tryfon championed above all else the values of perseverance, camaraderie, honesty, respect, and the virtues of his beloved Greek culture with its greatest miracle being: the enduring zeal for life.

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, November 14th at 9:30am at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church followed by a graveside service at Bayview Cemetery.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Starts at 9:30 am (Pacific time)

St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church

510 East Sunset Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

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