Sheila Ann Tsioutsias

Sheila A. (Lane) Tsioutsias

Portsmouth, NH   Sheila Ann (Lane) Tsioutsias passed away peacefully in her Bluffton, SC home on July 27, 2021, with her husband and daughter at her side.

Sheila was born on February 18, 1942, in Portsmouth, NH, to Donald and Mary (Tierney) Lane. She was a 1960 graduate of Portsmouth Senior High and a 1962 graduate of Wilfred Academy Beautician School in Boston, MA, following which she began a successful career with Edith’s Hair Salon in Portsmouth. She married and had two children before beginning her new career serving as a devoted U.S. Army wife for 21 years. She lived in several states across the U.S. and for three years in Germany before later settling down in Virginia Beach, VA, where she married retired Navy officer, Drake Tsioutsias, in 1998. Sheila worked as a legal secretary in the City of Virginia Beach City Attorney’s Office for 16 years. After retirement, she and Drake moved to Bluffton, SC, in 2012, where her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren reside.

Sheila had a beautiful spirit and would light up a room with her smile. She was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend who brought joy, inspiration, and life to all those around her. She was a very devoted Catholic, which was evident in her selfless, kind, and giving nature.

Sheila was predeceased by her parents and her twin sister, Sandra Dailey.  She is survived by her husband, Drake; her children, Gail  (Tom) Hanley and Robert “Bobby” Murphy, and their father, Gary (Vivian) Murphy; her grandchildren, Katie, Shane and Will Hanley; her stepdaughters, Christy (Bill) Price and Becky (fiancé Kaine) Douglass; and grandchildren, Anya, Zella, Xanthe and Leota Price, and Cody Douglass; her brother, Donald W. (Patricia) Lane; her brother-in-law, John (Christy) Dailey; and many nieces and nephews.

A mass of Christian burial will be held at the Immaculate Conception Church, 98 Summer Street in Portsmouth, on Friday, August 13 at 10:00am, with interment following at Calvary Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.