Anca Iliescu

Anca

May 19, 1940 - October 30, 2018

Mrs. Anca COSMA - dear mother, grandmother, sister, cousin, life-long friend and extraordinary lady - passed away peacefully on Tuesday October 30 ^th at the all too young age of 78 years. Anca (nee Iliescu) born in Craiova, Romania was predeceased by her late husband, Dante Cosma; her mother Maria Tomescu and father Tiberiu Iliescu. Anca is survived by her brother Mircea Petru Iliescu, her sister-in-law Felicia Ilina Iliescu; her first husband Mihail Gheorghe Sherban Radu Vladescu; her only son Michael Basarab Vladescu and his wife Caroline Marie Therese Vladescu; her grandchildren Nadia Marie Christine, Alexandra Ioana Eva, and Nicholas Matei Mihail; her cousin Vlad Tudor Patru and his partner Marie Duquette; her stepson Alexandru Cosma and his partner Susan Marie Dorman.

Family and friends are invited to pay their respects and celebrate Anca's life at Tubman's Funeral Home, 403 Richmond Road on Saturday November 3 ^rd from 1-4 pm. General Visitation will be from 1pm to 3pm followed by a formal funeral service in the Chapel from 3pm to 4pm.

Anca also left behind many many dear friends in Victoria, British Columbia. The family is planning another Memorial Service in the coming months to allow her Victoria friends to also celebrate her life.

Those who wish can make memorial donations in memory of Anca to the Scleroderma Association of Canada ( http://www.scleroderma.ca/ ). Scleroderma, also referred to as Systemic Sclerosis is a rare but serious autoimmune disease that Anca fought bravely to overcome.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to the amazing Intensive Care Unit Team at the Ottawa Civic Hospital for their relentless efforts to provide a path to recovery to our dearest Anca. She could not have been in better hands in her final days. Also, the family thanks the Riverside Hospital Respirology/Rheumatology Team for their efforts in exploring a treatment that would have slowed the progress of the disease. Finally, the family also thanks her respirologist, rheumatologist and family doctor for the care and kindness they showed in taking her on as a patient in the fall of 2017 and caring for her in Ottawa.