Remembering Deomi Liollio Ballas
May 23, 2011
Alexia Isaak
Deomi Ballas was my maternal grandmother, and it is the four-year anniversary of her passing. As I sat in church this Sunday listening to the memorial service for other deceased, I couldn't help get a tear in my eye in remembrance of my grandmother. Deomi, or yiayia, as her grandchildren called her because it means grandmother in Greek, immigrated to the United States when she married my grandfather in ...Read More