Concetta de Pasquale Theodorou

May 26th, 1935 – December 29th, 2025

In the care of Floral Hills Funeral Home, Cremation Service & Memory Gardens

Theodorou, Concetta (Connie) De Pasquale, age 90, was called to Heaven on December 29th, 2025, surrounded by bountiful care, supported by the presence of family, and held within the hands of God.

Connie was born into a large, loving, Italian family in Manhattan, New York. Though she came from humble beginnings, Connie always felt rich with love for her parents, siblings, and the childhood she had. As the oldest of eight children, Connie began helping her mother at a young age cooking in the kitchen – learning recipes and developing talents that she carried throughout her whole life and shared with her own family. She worked summers in high school as a waitress at a boarding house, frugally saving her earnings to help with family needs and using some to buy nice clothes for herself in the city at her favorite clothing store, Lord & Taylor, where her passion for fashion began. Connie always had a flare for fashion and even attended Parsons School of Design for a period of time. Her classic style and timeless taste were renowned by all who knew her; they could still be seen later in life not only in her wardrobe, but also in the way she thoughtfully decorated her home with antiques and fine items. After her time in school, Connie eventually went to work at Metropolitan Life Insurance, and while employed there, accepted an invitation orchestrated by her cousin for a blind date with William (Bill) Theodorou; this fateful date began a 65+ year love story and changed the course of her life forever.

Connie and Bill began their family in Jackson Heights, NY. After raising three of their four children in a one bedroom apartment, the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1963, when Bill accepted a job with Western Electric Company. During this time in Atlanta, Connie primarily served as a homemaker, while also doing seasonal work at the Internal Revenue Service. She was a very involved and selfless mother and wife, often going straight from working night shift to taking her children to school to then helping her husband in their antique store. She was an active member in her community, attending Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church and fundraising for the local Public Broadcasting Station. She was a gracious host and loved having her family and friends over to her home for card games where she would serve her famous meatballs and Italian sandwiches. Food was one of her love languages. She always made a point to cook for those she loved and deliver home cooked meals to others – it was an insult if you were at her table and denied dessert.

Connie devoted her life to her family. She attended to her daughter Cynthia selflessly throughout Cynthia’s battle with cancer, even living in Birmingham, Alabama, for a time to take care of Cynthia and her whole family. Connie was an exceptionally present grandmother and great grandmother, traveling hours even in her old age to be present at every birthday, graduation, baptism, school event, and extracurricular activity. She lovingly helped her three nurse granddaughters study for their exams by volunteering her services as a stand-in patient for physical assessments or health interviews. She had scheduled phone calls with her family members on a weekly basis where she would talk for hours; she would FaceTime with her grandchildren and great granddaughters daily. She truly never met a stranger and could talk to anyone, listening in such a way that always made you feel important. Her sour cream pound cakes and homemade apple pie, handwritten notes on beautiful stationary, and always available ear will be dearly missed.

Connie is preceded in death by her husband, Bill; daughter, Cynthia Rogers (John); parents, Cosmo and Dolores De Pasquale; brothers, Ralph and Robert (Sandy) De Pasquale. She is survived by her brothers, Francis (Pat), Ronald (Maureen), and Thomas (Nancy); her sisters, Dolores Dwyer, Maria Elena Flynn (Donald); her children, Evangeline, Christine Rudell (Christopher), and James (Karen); her grandchildren, Gretchen Weeks (Ashley), Victoria Bolus (Anthony), Lauren Shepard (Michael), Luke, Thomas Rogers, and Hunter Rudell; her great grandchildren, Cynthia and Marialena Bolus, along with numerous nieces, nephews, and great grand dogs.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM followed by a funeral Mass at 11:00 AM at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, located at 2855 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329. Interment and reception will follow at Floral Hills Funeral Home located at 3150 Lawrenceville Highway, Tucker, Georgia, 30084. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama Seminarian Education Fund in honor of Connie’s grandson, Thomas, or enjoy a plate of the chicken frencese at Provino’s Italian Restaurant in her honor.