Anita May Zugoff

Daughter of Bill Zugoff (aka Konstantin Dzugutov, immigrant from the Russian Empire) and Lilly May Edwards, she was born on November 19, 1919 in Lake Stevens, WA. She did attend the High School also in Lake Stevens and Ketchikan AK. In 1936, her father decided to visit his former country, which became the Soviet Union. Anita and her younger brothers –George and Delbert- had to accompany him in this trip.

This endeavor turn into 53 years- long involuntary stay in the, now nonexistent, USSR, because the family has not been allowed to return back to the USA.

Anita survived WWII, where both her brothers perish. She worked as a broadcaster in the Radio Moscow for 37 years. Her father Bill, who remarried later, had Anita’s two half-brothers and half-sister, who live now in the Ossetia Region in Russian Federation. Her father died in 1976.

She had been married three times and left two children –daughter Marina and son Konstantin,- and finally joined her elder mother Lilly May Rahm in Ketchikan, AK in 1989.

Her family-daughter Marina and her husband Alex, and grandson Jan, as well as son Konstantin, wife Natasha and grandson Pavel- joined her the same year. Since then, Anita lived in AK, visiting her children and her beloved uncle Irv Edwards and his wife Doris Noreen, who were extremely supportive and helpful to the entire family.

Finally, she moved to Everett, WA in 2000, where she lived in the senior community center. She was very involved in family affairs and attended weddings of her grandsons:

Yan Gendel and Raisa Feldman, which produced delightful great-grandson Phillip Gendel, and,

Pavel Henkin and Kitty Anderson, which delivered her

Great-granddaughter Tula Elisabeth Henkin.

Family and friends will always remember Anita as a lovable woman with strong personality, sharp sense of humor, charitable and generous.