It is with profound regret that we share with you that George Christopoulos of Metuchen, NJ has passed away after a long illness at the age of 92 on April 1, 2023. George Apostolos Christopoulos was born August 19, 1930 in New York City.  From 1931, until 1939, George and his family relocated to Kalamata, Greece during the height of The Great Depression. At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the Christopoulos family left Greece and returned to the United States resettling in New York City.  He lived in New York City for nearly 30 years.

George Christopoulos was an alumnus of Stuyvesant High School (Class of 1949) and an alumnus of The City University of New York/CUNY Brooklyn College, whereby he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Comparative Literature.

George proudly served his country during the Korean War in the United States Army. Between 1953 and 1955, he served in the United States Army and was stationed in West Germany during the height of The Cold War.

During his early professional years, George worked for the Public Relations Department at The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, as well as for Metropolitan Life. By the mid 1960's, he joined the Public Relations Department at The New York Stock Exchange whereby he worked as a Speechwriter, Public Speaker, Editor, as well as having penned a syndicated column in Financial Affairs during the mid 1970's.  He worked for The New York Stock Exchange for nearly 20 years.

From the late 1980's, until his retirement in 2003, George worked as a Financial Editor and Deputy Analyst at the Wall Street Brokerage House, Fahnestock & Co. as well as having worked as a freelance Financial Affairs writer for many Wall Street based magazines and publications.

While having spent many enjoyable years on Wall Street, George also had a fulfilling private life.

In 1963, George met the love of his life, Georgia Farganis and began their family in Brooklyn, New York.  By 1968, Mr. and Mrs. George Christopoulos moved to Metuchen, New Jersey where they lived in the same house for nearly 55 years which they both loved immensely.

While George was a classic "city kid" whose main familiarity with nature was from Greece and Central Park, over time, he became an amateur Gardener.

George was also an Artist in several disciplines. He self-taught Painter who produced several paintings over the years, ranging from the Impressionistic to the Abstract and a participant in many joint shows in NYC.  He was a lifelong writer who penned several beautiful poems, novels (including The First Woman President ), insightfully written and produced plays (including the Death of Hemmingway ), and translator of several Modern Greek and Spanish Literary works into English. He was fluent in Modern Greek and Spanish and conversational in Italian and French. George was also an avid History buff who often conversed with his sons, his nieces and nephews, on topics ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Greek Histories, to various periods of American History. George spent many years researching the phenomena of certain astronomical distances and ratios and developing hypotheses pertaining to such distances and religious observations.

George also enjoyed traveling over the years whereby he spent a summer in Mexico City, as well as having traveled through Montreal, and throughout Europe to London, Barcelona, the South of France, Rome, Germany and his ancestral homeland….Greece.  George also enjoyed traveling throughout the US visiting many cities and states in the Northeast and the South.

But, his real passion and love…..was for his family.

He was predeceased by his beloved parents Apostolos and Maria (Koutsis) Christopoulos and his nephew Dean

George Christopoulos is survived by his wife Georgia, their two sons, Andreas and Alexander; his brother, Tom Christopher and his wife Rosalie and their children Tom and Maryanne; his sister Dorothy Vorillas and her daughters Athena and Maria; his sister-in-law, Sondra Farganis, her daughter Daphne, and her son Dion and his wife Rachel; his niece Lori Halivopoulos-Szepkouski and her husband Brian Szepkouski; and his nephew, George Halivopoulos and his wife Lisa; and many grandnieces and grandnephews.

He was 92 years old and a lifelong member of The Greek Orthodox Church. One of his great beliefs was in the immortality of the soul and that, in this plane, the impossible was only possible if you do everything possible to make the impossible possible. May he rest in peace. XEIR.

Visitation will take place on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, from 6 pm to 8 pm at the Flynn and Son / Koyen Funeral Home, 319 Amboy Ave Metuchen NJ 08840. with a Trisagion on Service at 7 pm.

Funeral Services will take place on Wednesday morning,  April 5, 2023, at 9:15 a.m, from the Flynn and Son / Koyen Funeral Home, followed by a 10 a.m. Service of Divine Liturgy at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 41-47 Wisteria St., Perth Amboy NJ 08861.

Interment will follow in Hillside Cemetery, 1401 Woodland Ave. Scotch Plains, NJ 07076.

Flowers are welcome, however, in lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to the Urology Care Foundation (https://www.urologyhealth.org/).