Grace Anechiarico, real estate saleswoman
Grace Anechiarico, who was active in real estate sales for nearly 30 years and was an avid gardener in her spare time, died Saturday of complications from a stroke at Brightview Mays Chapel Ridge in Timonium. She was 91.
Grace Marinelli was the daughter of immigrants from Bari, Italy: Domenic Marinelli, a tailor, and Helen Marinelli, a seamstress.
She was born and raised in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and graduated in 1942 from A.B. Davis High School. After high school, she worked as a secretary for Borden’s Dairy.
“She used to tell how everyone got a free carton of milk every day,” said her daughter, Susan A. Haak of Phoenix, Baltimore County.
She met her future husband, Frank Anechiarico, at a church picnic in her hometown and, after he returned from World War II, they married in 1947.
Her husband worked as a car salesman in New York City. The couple and their two children moved to Stoneleigh in 1959 after he was named sales manager at the old University Ford on 29th Street.
Mr. Anechiarico, who later owned Valley Chevrolet on Padonia Road in Timonium, died in 2014.
In 1968, the family moved to the Cambria neighborhood of Phoenix, Baltimore County. Mrs. Anechiarico immersed herself in PTA work and organized a neighborhood cleanup that commemorated the first Earth Day in 1970. She planted an entire hill of daffodils that can be seen from Merrymans Mill Road, her daughter said.
After earning her real estate license in 1982, she began working for Grempler Realty, which later became Coldwell Banker, then Long & Foster.
She worked in Long & Foster’s Jacksonville and Timonium offices and routinely sold more than $4 million in real estate a year, her daughter said. She said her mother was noted for the care she showed clients in helping them select a home.
Mrs. Anechiarico was an accomplished cook and enjoyed entertaining family and friends. She was known for her Christmas Eve dinners that featured the traditional Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes.
She enjoyed vacationing with her children and grandchildren in Ocean City, Fenwick Island, Del., and Bethany Beach, Del.
She and her husband moved in 2000 to a condominium at Rosslare Ridge in Timonium, and in 2014 to Brightview Mays Chapel Ridge assisted living.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at noon today in the Stella Maris chapel, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium
In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Anechiarico is survived by a son, Paul Anechiarico of Phoenix, Baltimore County; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.