The Androus family

The Androus family is the corpus’s first documented Greek-American Alexandria family entry — a mid-twentieth-century-through-present Alexandria line whose civic and philanthropic work is anchored in the public record by Theodore S. Androus (1939–2003), the Androus Foundation 501(c)(3), and the South Richmond Highway Place South Richmond Highway Mid-rise commercial office building on South Richmond Highway (Alexandria's Route 1 corridor), owned/operated by the . Established by 1971 per the published practice history of … commercial property on South Richmond Highway.

Theodore S. Androus (1939–2003)

Theodore was born in 1939 and died on November 2, 2003 in Alexandria, Virginia at the age of sixty-four — the head-of-family figure documented in the family’s surfaced public record. His specific profession or employer is not surfaced in the contemporary Washington Post obituary, which is the corpus’s anchor source for the family; the family’s memorial-donation request — directing donors to the Androus Foundation in lieu of flowers — suggests that civic and philanthropic work were central to the family’s public posture. ^[1] Source 1 Washington Post — Theodore S. Androus obit (2003) Newspaper

He was married thirty-five years at his death to Catherine T. Androus, and was the father of three sons — Theo “Terry” Androus, Ezra Androus (with his wife Shanell), and Zachary Androus. He had three sisters — Jean “Jan” Woodman, Lynne Smith, and Deborah Androus Polster — and grandchildren Audrey and Thanos. The family worshipped at St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C.; funeral arrangements for Theodore were handled by the Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home at 1500 West Braddock Road in Alexandria.

Per the May 2026 living-individuals policy, the surviving Androus family members are mentioned by name in this narrative when public records carry them but do not have standalone profile pages.

Earlier-generation Arthur T Androus (1900–1997)

An earlier-generation Arthur T Androus (1900–1997, age 97) appears in public-record genealogical aggregators as a long-time Alexandria resident. The parent–son relationship between Arthur T and Theodore is plausible from the dates — Arthur was thirty-nine in 1939, the year of Theodore’s birth — but has not yet been documented in surfaced public sources, and is treated here as a research target rather than an asserted fact. Confirming the Androus family’s earliest Alexandria generation would deepen this family thread; the Alexandria Library Local History / Special Collections is the natural archive to consult.

The Androus Foundation

The family operates the Androus Foundation, Inc., a Virginia 501(c)(3) private foundation whose mailing address — PO Box 240, Mt. Vernon, VA 22121 — sits in the unincorporated southeastern Alexandria area along the Potomac (the Mt. Vernon postal designation reflects the postal area, not the historic Mount Vernon estate itself). The Foundation reported approximately $435,000 in grants for the 2020 tax year, placing it among the larger family-anchored private foundations in Alexandria. Its Form 990 filings — public via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the Instrumentl grant-tracking aggregator — establish the EIN as 52-6054135 and document the Foundation’s continuing philanthropic activity across years. ^[2] Source 2 IRS — Androus Foundation Form 990 filings Government record

Specific founders, founding year, governance, and grantmaking priorities of the Foundation are not surfaced in the public records consulted for this entry; deepening the Foundation’s documentation is a research target for a future pass at the Foundation’s own published materials and the Form 990 archive.

Real estate: the Androus Building

The family owns/operates the South Richmond Highway Place South Richmond Highway Mid-rise commercial office building on South Richmond Highway (Alexandria's Route 1 corridor), owned/operated by the . Established by 1971 per the published practice history of … — a commercial office building on the city’s South Richmond Highway corridor (Route 1, formerly Jefferson Davis Highway, renamed Richmond Highway in 2019). Specific street number, construction year, and tenancy chains across the building’s life are research-bound — see the building’s own page for details and open research questions.