Anne Courtney Plaskonos

Anne Courtney Plaskonos, 95, passed away on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Shillington, PA. She was the widow of Michael Plaskonos.

Born in West Reading, PA to the late Percy R. and Blanche M. (Cusson) Courtney, Anne graduated from Shillington High School in 1946 and from Penn State University in 1950. She and Michael married on May 26, 1956, before settling in Grove City, OH, where she began her lifelong career as a first-grade teacher.

Mrs. Plaskonos's first teaching position was at Scioto Elementary School in Pickaway County, OH, where she taught for five years then moving to Richard Avenue Elementary School in Grove City, OH where she taught first grade for 26 years retiring for the first time in 1987. Mike and Anne then moved to their summer home on Lake Salem in Derby, VT, in 1987, and shortly after Anne returned to teaching at Brighton Elementary School in Island Pond, VT. Mrs. Plaskonos retired again in 1997 after 10 years at Brighton and began spending winters in Shillington. For over a decade, she worked as a substitute teacher at LaSalle Academy in Shillington, PA where her grandchildren were students.

Anne was a member of St. Benedict Labre Catholic Church of West Charleston, VT and St. John Baptist de la Salle of Shillington.

Left to treasure her memory are her children, Marti Spezialetti (Bob), of Mohnton, and Eric Plaskonos (Jennifer), of Washington Depot, and her grandchildren, Matthew Spezialetti (Carolyn), Benjamin Spezialetti, Bryn Spezialetti, Blanche Plaskonos, and Henri Plaskonos.

In addition to her parents, Anne was predeceased by her husband, Michael, in 2010, and her brother, John R. Courtney, of Reading, PA in 1998.

Contributions in Anne's memory may be offered to LaSalle Academy, 440 Holland St, Shillington, PA 19607, or Dailey Memorial Library, 101 Junior High Drive, Derby, VT 05829.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday June 7, 2027, at 10 a.m. at St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic Church, 42 Kerrick Rd, Shillington. A visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the church. Burial will be held privately in the family plot at St. Elizabeth's Cemetery of Lyndonville. Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home, Inc, is entrusted with arrangements. Condolences may be expressed at kuhnfuneralhomes.com.