Margarita Papndreou has passed away at 103

During the final years of her life, as her son Nikos Papandreou recently revealed, she resided in an apartment in Palaio Faliro.

She was the second wife of Andreas Papandreou, and they remained married from 1951 to 1989.

She and Andreas Papandreou had four children together: Giorgos, Sofia, Nikos, and Andrikos Papandreou.

She was born in the USA in 1923. She studied journalism and subsequently pursued a master's degree in Public Health at the University of Minnesota, where she met her future husband, Andreas Papandreou, in 1947.

They lived initially in Minnesota and later in California, where Andreas Papandreou served as Chair of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley and was a close friend of the future Governor of California, Pat Brown.

They were married in a civil ceremony on August 30, 1951, in Reno. In 1959–1960, Margaret Papandreou accompanied her husband on a visit to Yugoslavia. Andreas Papandreou had received grants from the American Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations to study the country's economic system. While in Yugoslavia, the couple were hosted by the country's leader, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, with whom they formed a friendship.

They settled permanently in Greece in 1961.

Following the imposition of the Colonels' junta, Margaret Papandreou campaigned effectively to secure her husband's release in December 1967; subsequently, the couple settled first in Stockholm, Sweden, and later in Toronto, Canada.

She founded the Women's Union of Greece (EGE) and served as its president for eight years. She was actively involved in women's issues and peace initiatives. She also authored numerous books and articles.

Meeting at a dental clinic and love at first sight with Andreas Papandreou
In February 1948, she met the great love of her life—as she herself described him—Andreas Papandreou. They met in the waiting room of a dental office in Minneapolis.

She had revealed in the History Channel documentary *Modern Greeks*: "I didn't expect to meet my future husband at a dentist's office. We struck up a political conversation; we both had a keen interest in international affairs. The attraction was instantaneous, stemming from the fact that we were speaking on the same wavelength and shared a common fundamental philosophy."