Obituary: Anna Grinzaid

Anna Grinzaid, beloved mother, Bubbie, grandmother, great-grandmother, piano playing, dancing, fun person passed away peacefully on July 22, 2025, in Atlanta, Ga., surrounded by her two sons and their families. She was almost 97 years old.

Born on Sept. 16, 1928, in Odessa, Ukraine, Anna eventually immigrated to the United States with her husband and one of her sons. A few years later, her second son immigrated to the United States with his family.

Anna was a self-taught piano player who could pick up a tune and play elaborately just from hearing a few notes. She was always the life of the party, dancing in the middle and pulling people in. She was a bookkeeper of two manufacturing plants in the Soviet Union and continued her work with accounting in the United States.

Family was everything to Anna and she showed it by selfless commitments to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and always agreeing to help with the little ones or cook and entertain the entire clan.

Anna‘s fun-loving and happy personality will forever be missed by her family. She made others smile and come out and dance on the dance floor with her, she made others want to be like her and she wouldn’t mind telling you her opinion if she thought you could benefit from it (which was usually the case).

Anna is survived by her children, Jimmy (Karen) Grinzaid and Sergey (Asya) Zhosul; grandchildren, Ben (Rosie) Grinzaid, Danielle (Jared) Samuels, Karina Ivanov; great-grandchildren, Nicole Ivanov, Noah and Maya Grinzaid, and Abe Samuels.

The graveside funeral service was held on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at 3 p.m., at Crest Lawn Memorial Park, 2000 Marietta Blvd NE, Atlanta, GA 30318.
Shiva was observed on Wednesday, July 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a service at 6:15 p.m., at Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Hwy NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328.

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made in Anna‘s memory to Jewish Family & Career Services of Atlanta, Holocaust Survivor Program – the organization that helped Anna throughout the last few years and were instrumental in ensuring her care and well-being. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.