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GEORGE J. STATHIS

Mr. George Stathis, Restaurateur,
Veteran of World War II, 44

    George Stathis, 44, vice president and general manager of the Seaford Restaurant, 3 Henry St., and head of the Warren Lobster House in Kittery, Maine, which he operated during the Summer months, died of heart attack in Maine last Thursday.
  . Hp was a native of (Greece and Greece after the occupation that country by the Germans.
   In n1944 Mr. Stathis, then a corporal. was mentioned In a United Press dispatch by war correspondent Clinton B. Conger as the man who served an interpreter between the British Commandos and the villagers on the Greek Island of Kythera when it was Invaded earlier that year. Through the explanations made by Corp. Stathis the villagers warmly received the British Commandos.
  .At the close of the war, Mr. Stathis renewed his association with the Seaford Restaurant here and later became interested in the Kittery Lobster House.  He was also an executive with the Bordentown Grill, Bordentown, NJ and was a director of peninsula Navigation Co, and a member of the Greek Society Athena,
   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Harriet Stathis; two sons, John and Nicholas George; a well as four brothers and two sisters in Greece.
  Funeral services were held Monday at St. Constantine's Greek Orthodox Church, 64 Schermerhorn St.. Burial was in Ml. Olivet Cemetery.

[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, 23 Sep 1954, Thu, Page 15]

George Stathis

   KITTERY ---George Stathis, 44, of 3 Water St., manager of Warren's Lobster House, died unexpectedly at his home yesterday.
  Mr. Stathis had been a resident  here for the past six months, moving here to assume his duties at the lobster house.
   Born in Alarcadus, Greece, Jan. 16, 1910, the son of John and Antonia Stathis, he was a veteran of World War II.
   Survivors include his wife and two sons.

[Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH, Fri, Sep 17, 1954, Page 3]

Sgt Stathis was transferred fro the 505th PIR to Hq Hq, 508th PIR at a yet to be determined date.

However, he was included in the Hq Hq Morning Report on a list of enlisted men between the ages of 35 and 37 on 29 September 1945.

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