OPYC o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-07 published
NOLAN,
Pamela▼ (née
KEELEY)
After a lengthy illness at Markham Stouffville Hospital on Friday,
November 4, 2005 in her 50th year, surrounded by her family.
Pamela,▼ beloved wife of Glen
NOLAN and loving mother of Benjamin.
Beloved▼ daughter of Jill and Roger
KEELEY. Dear sister of Michele
and Jim DROHAN,
Christopher▼ and Kim
KEELEY, Tracey and Dean
OPYC
and Todd KEELEY.
Loving▼ granddaughter of Eleanor
KEELEY. Also
lovingly remember by her 6 nieces and nephews. Her integrity,
humility and strength of character were a gift to all who knew
her. Friends will be received at the Dixon-Garland Funeral Home
166 Main St. N. (Markham Rd.) Markham on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, November 9, at
11 a.m. in St. Andrew's United Church 32 Main St. N. Markham.
In lieu of flowers, donations to The Canadian Marfan Association
Central Plaza Postal Outlet, 128 Queen St. S.P.O. Box 42257 Mississauga,
Ontario. L5M 4Z0 would be appreciated.
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OPYC o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-06 published
NOLAN,
Pamela▲▼ (née
KEELEY)
After a lengthy illness at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, on Friday,
November 4, 2005, in her 50th year, surrounded by her family.
Pamela,▲▼ beloved wife of Glen
NOLAN and loving mother of Benjamin.
Beloved▲▼ daughter of Jill and Roger
KEELEY. Dear sister of Michele
and Jim DROHAN,
Christopher▲▼ and Kim
KEELEY, Tracey and Dean
OPYC,
and Todd KEELEY.
Loving▲▼ granddaughter of Eleanor
KEELEY. Also
lovingly remembered by her nieces and nephews. Friends will be
received at the Dixon-Garland Funeral Home, 166 Main St. N. (Markham
Rd.), Markham, on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. (Time and place of
service later.)
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OPYC o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-07 published
NOLAN,
Pamela▲ (née
KEELEY)
After a lengthy illness at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, on Friday,
November 4, 2005, in her 50th year, surrounded by her family.
Pamela,▲ beloved wife of Glen
NOLAN and loving mother of Benjamin.
Beloved▲ daughter of Jill and Roger
KEELEY. Dear sister of Michele
and Jim DROHAN,
Christopher▲ and Kim
KEELEY, Tracey and Dean
OPYC,
and Todd KEELEY.
Loving▲ granddaughter of Eleanor
KEELEY. Also
lovingly remembered by her 6 nieces and nephews. Integrity, humility
and strength of character were a gift to all who knew her. Friends
will be received at the Dixon-Garland Funeral Home, 166 Main
St. N. (Markham Rd.), Markham, on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
Service will be held on Wednesday, November 9th at 11 a.m. in
St. Andrew's United Church, 32 Main St. N., Markham. In lieu
of flowers, donations to the Canadian Marfan Association, Central
Plaza Postal Outlet, 128 Queen St. S., P.O. Box 42257, Mississauga,
Ontario, L5M 4Z0 would be appreciated.
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OPYRIUK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-03 published
Jaroslaw OPYRIUK
By Lubomyr
LUCIUK and Nadia
LUCIUK,
Friday,
June 3, 2005, Page
A22
Accountant, poet, Ukrainian patriot, refugee, chef, gentleman.
Born January 8, 1915, in Volosiv, Ukraine. Died May 3 in Kingston,
Ontario, of natural causes, aged 90.
He was a shy man, a quiet man, or so we had come to accept. Yet,
after his death, as we sifted through his papers (long secreted
away in an old cookie tin), much that we had not known about
him was exposed.
Jaroslaw, or "Uncle Slawko," as we always called him, was born
in a small village, Volosiv, now western Ukraine but then part
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He never knew his father, Wasyl,
a soldier lost in the Great War. His widowed mother, Ustina
(BAGALIUK,)
was left in desperate straits. Thankfully the two Zakh sisters,
daughters of a wealthy landowner and Czechs by nationality, accepted
Jaroslaw as their own, providing him with a somewhat pampered
life and his mother with work and shelter.
Ustina later became Petro
LUCIUK's wife, and Jaroslaw was joined
by a half-brother, Roman, and half-sister, Paraskevia. It was
in the interwar period that he also came to know our father,
Danylo, the start of a lifelong Friendship that would endure
a second world war, exile and resettlement.
His privileged position secured Slawko a better education than
the norm. He became an accountant, with a cultivated taste for
literature, classical music and poetry, which he also wrote.
He rose to a position of administrative responsibility within
the Ukrainian co-operative movement and remained working for
the betterment of his people under the Polish, Soviet and Nazi
occupations. Escaping west in 1944, when it became clear that
Ukraine would again fall under the Communist yoke, he and Danylo
found asylum in a displaced persons camp, just north of Munich.
There he took an active role in cultural life, foreshadowed by
his having earlier starred as Taras Bulba in a theatrical rendition
of Hohol's famous work.
In 1949, Slawko was selected for emigration to Canada, officially
identified as a lumber-camp worker. It is doubtful he would have
fared well in northern Ontario's forests. Luckily our mother,
Maria, intervened with her supervisor at Kingston's Hotel Dieu
Hospital, and secured a kitchen job for "Jerry," as he was known
to staff there. He would work there for the next three decades,
eventually becoming chef. The certificate of appreciation he
received on retirement became one of his most cherished documents,
carefully preserved. That several of the nursing sisters he knew
decades ago attended his funeral to bid their goodbyes, was one
reminder of how appreciated he had been.
Some of our earliest memories are of playing in the hospital's
basement, being treated to still-warm apple pie, a perk of having
our "Uncle Slawko" in charge of the ovens. Although he became
somewhat reclusive in later life, Slawko remained committed to
all things Ukrainian -- particularly the arts, the Ukrainian
Catholic Church and various charitable and educational foundations.
His generosity helped sustain Lubomyr during his doctoral research.
When the resulting book appeared, exploring the postwar refugee
community's struggle for Ukrainian independence, Slawko was delighted
for, always a voracious reader, this tome treated a topic close
to his heart. He kept himself informed, continuing to read even
after he had to be taken to hospital in Kingston.
Slawko died peacefully, having witnessed the Orange Revolution
herald a real chance for democracy in Ukraine. Buried in Canadian
soil, he was also covered with a handful of earth brought from
Volosiv.
Indeed his course was much like Ukraine's. Both endured and so
both are finally free.
Lubomyr and Nadia
LUCIUK are Slawko's nephew and niece.
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