Little is known of the later years of Anna Elfriede Stoecker. She died in East Berlin on 3 August 1966. It is likely that after delivering her children to relative safety in England in 1933 she returned to Germany and lived quietly in successively Hitler's Germany (1933-1945), the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (1845-1949) and Walter Ulbricht's Soviet-Socialist East Germany (1949-1966). Ashes identified as her husband's remains had been disinterred after 1945 and placed in Friedrichsfelde cemetery in the section reserved for the physical remains of heroes of socialism, and after she died Elfriede's Stoecker's physical remains were placed close by.