Anna Lucia Iacangelo

Anna Lucia Iacangelo of Bethesda, MD, died on Friday, July 4, 2014, at her home at the age of 57 surrounded by family, friends and God’s grace. Born in 1956 in Washington DC, she was the daughter of the late Fernanda Marzierli Iacangelo and the late Gerardo “Jerry” Iacangelo. Anna was the eldest of five children and raised on Andrew Court in Wheaton, MD, a community filled with lots of children and hard-working families. Anna graduated from Wheaton High School Class of 1974 in Wheaton, MD, and received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Microbiology from University of Maryland College Park, MD, in May of 1979. Anna worked as a Biologist for the National Institute of Health for 30 years and retired in 2012. She started her professional career at the Food and Drug Administration as a biological aid and then as a Lab Technician at a private lab, Litton Bionetics, Inc. At NIH and NIMH, Anna received honors and service awards and was a published contributor in numerous scientific research articles. After retirement, it was Anna’s dream to teach and mentor the next generation of research scientists. Melanoma robbed her of her dream even though she battled courageously for three years to obtain a cure. Anna was a loving person and was deeply devoted to her family. She was courageous, had great compassion and was very intelligent, with a beautiful mind. Anna will be greatly missed by her family, her friends and her pets (she had two dogs and two cats that comforted her right up to the day of her passing). She is survived by her two sisters, Joann Walters of Chester, MD, and Paula Stern of Carlisle, PA; her two brothers, Gerard “Jerry” Iacangelo of Herndon, VA, and Mark Iacangelo of Tracy, CA; five nephews, Christopher Iacangelo, Matthew, Andrew, and Brian Stern and John “Mitch” Walters; and six nieces, Erin and Alicia Iacangelo, Camille, Claire, and Cailyne Iacangelo, and Jennifer Walters. Friends and family are invited to the viewing on Thursday, July 10th from 6-8pm at Fellows, Helfenbein & Newman Funeral Home in Chester, MD, and the Funeral Mass on Friday, July 11, at 1pm at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Rockville, MD. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Hospice of Queen Anne’s, 255 Comet Drive, Centreville, MD 21617 or Montgomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850.

Anna Lucia Iacangelo

December 17, 1956 - July 4, 2014