Areti Diamantidis

Areti peacefully passed away on Monday, April 18, 2016. She was born on December 10, 1925 in Maheri, Apokoronou, Chania on the island of Crete in Greece, to Ioani and Ekaterini Milonaki.

Areti moved to Athens from Chania, Crete in her early twenties where she met and married her husband, Iordani. They spent the next seventeen years there raising their two daughters. In July of 1965, they immigrated to the United States, specifically to Indianapolis, Indiana.

Areti worked as a men’s alteration seamstress at L.S. Strauss & Company for twenty five years. She was very talented in anything and everything she did. She loved to cook and bake for her family and friends. She sewed her own clothes most of her life and also her children’s when they were young. She knitted, crocheted lace in many patterns along with completing many needlework wall hangings for her children and grandchildren. She also enjoyed gardening every summer and had quite the green thumb. Areti loved God, her church, and her family. She was a giver and gave unselfishly to all who needed her. She was extremely polite, thoughtful and loved everyone.

The oldest of five children, she is survived by her daughters Eleni (John) Vogas and Kathy Diamantidis, three grand-children, Angelo Vogas, Aretoula (Amer) Nahas, Donny (Laura) Vogas and three great grandchildren Eleni Alexa, Yanni and Zoe and her brother in Greece, Andreas. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1999, two brothers and her sister in Greece.

Visitation will be on Thursday, April 21, 2015 from 4:00pm to 8pm at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church 3500 W. 106th Street, Carmel, IN 46032. A Trisagion service will be at 7pm. Funeral services will be held at Holy Trinity on Friday, April 22, 2015 at 11am, with calling from 10am till the time of the service. Burial will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, In with memorial luncheon to follow at Holy Trinity Founder’s Lounge. Memorial contribution may be made to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. Arrangements entrusted to Flanner and Buchanan-Broad Ripple. Online condolencers and a video tribute may be shared at www.flannerbuchanan.com