WAWREW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-04 published
McTIGHE,
Joan
Anne
Croxall (formerly
WAWREW)
(April 19, 1933-April 2, 2006)
Peacefully at Wenleigh Nursing Home in Mississauga on Sunday,
April 2, 2006. Joan, cherished wife of devoted husband Barry
McTIGHE.
Predeceased by husband John
WAWREW. Loving mother of
Debbie and husband Jim
BRUCE;
Karl
WAWREW; Karen and husband
Chris TRAVERS.
Grandma will be lovingly remembered by Andrew
and John BRUCE and Dana and Siobhan
TRAVERS.
Heartfelt thanks
to Friends and family for their valued support. The family wish
to thank the caring staff at The Wenleigh. Friends will be received
at the Ridley Funeral Home, 3080 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (between
Islington and Kipling Aves., at 14th Street, 416-259-3705) on Wednesday
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service complete in the chapel
on Thursday at 3 p.m. If desired, memorial donations to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family. Messages
of Condolence may be placed at www.RidleyFuneralHome.com.
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WAWRUCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-11 published
WAWRUCH,
Anna
Peacefully, on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at the Oakville Trafalgar
Memorial Hospital. Anna, wife of the late Eugene. Loving mother
to Meraslava and her husband, the late Bill
BIEN,
Iris and her
husband Ihor
LAWRYNOWYCZ and Terry and his wife
Ania
KRYSTALOWYCH.
Dear Baba to Myron, Lesia and Ivanka
BIEN,
Natalie and Tamara
LAWRYNOWYCZ and Maksym and Zhdania
WAWRUCH.
Anna will always
be remembered by her family and Friends both here and in Ukraine.
Friends will be received at the Neweduk Funeral Home - Mississauga
Chapel, 1981 Dundas St. W. (1 block east of Erin Mills Pkwy.)
Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. Panakhyda Tuesday 8: 30 p.m. Funeral Wednesday
with Divine Liturgy from Saint Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church
(3625 Cawthra Rd. just south of Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.) at 10 a.m.
Interment Park Lawn Cemetery. Neweduk Funeral Home (905) 828-8000
www.neweduk.com
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WAWRYSHYN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-11-21 published
Anastasia WAWRYSHYN, 99: Hard worker lived for family
By Leslie FERENC,
Staff
Reporter
Every
Friday,
Anastasia
WAWRYSHYN's grandchildren would race
out of their classrooms at Saint_Josaphat Catholic School, across
Franklin Ave. and straight to Baba's kitchen.
There, they'd be greeted with a big smile and an even bigger
bowl of her light-as-a-cloud potato-filled perohy.
Of course, they couldn't eat just one. And no matter how many
of those mouthwatering delicacies the four of them gobbled up,
they knew there would be plenty more to take home for dinner.
"Baba always made enough for everybody," Michael
WAWRYSHYN said
of his mother who was much loved for her made-from-scratch traditional
Ukrainian cooking and her open-hearted hospitality.
WAWRYSHYN died November 3, two months before her 100th birthday.
She'd suffered a stroke 10 days earlier, the same day a sister
passed away in Ukraine.
Family was everything for
WAWRYSHYN who was born in the tiny
Ukrainian village of Teplyts, January 3, 1907, in what was then
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The eldest of nine children
only six survived to adulthood -- she understood full well
what it meant to struggle. Her parents were poor farmers who
eked out a living on the the land, exchanging eggs and milk or
freshly picked forest mushrooms for the things they couldn't
produce themselves, said
WAWRYSHYN of his mother's early years.
WAWRYSHYN decided to leave her beloved Ukraine after the death
of her intended. He'd immigrated to Argentina to log the forests
but died of malaria.
Riding by horse and buggy along dirt roads to the nearest train
station, the feisty and tenacious 19-year-old travelled to Germany
and then to England where she boarded a ship for Halifax. A stranger
in a strange land who didn't know a living soul in Canada and
didn't speak the language, the young woman forged ahead travelling
west to Saskatoon in search of work. En route,
WAWRYSHYN befriended
a young Ukrainian woman and the two kindred spirits became fast
Friends. Those were difficult but happy days, said her son. Both
worked as domestics, with
WAWRYSHYN taking a job in a boarding
house for farm children attending high school in the city. She
always looked forward to Sunday. It was spent at church, which
was the centre of life for young Ukrainian immigrants who had
settled in Saskatoon. After services, they attended teas and
concerts and enjoyed the company of new Friends.
WAWRYSHYN and her friend later moved to Toronto, where she met
and married her husband Prokip.
The couple moved to Franklin Ave. in 1939 and lived there all
their lives. At the time, the majority of their neighbours were
Ukrainian, settling in the close-knit west-end community near
large factories where they could find work. Their three children,
Michael, Mary and Anne, were born and raised in the old neighbourhood.
Having completed only Grade 3,
WAWRYSHYN was passionate when
it came to learning, determined her children would be well-educated
and have the opportunities she didn't, said her son, a retired
Toronto high school teacher.
A deeply pious woman,
WAWRYSHYN's religious and social life revolved
around the church. She was a long-time and active parishioner
at Saint_Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral down the street
from the family's home. She sang in the choir and was a founding
member of the cathedral's chapter of the Ukrainian Catholic Women's
League of Canada. "She just wanted a chance to make a better
life and was happy to have it," said her son.
Deeply proud of her Ukrainian roots,
WAWRYSHYN passed on her
love of her homeland and its rich culture to her children who
attended Ukrainian schools and were involved in various community
organizations.
A serious individual devoted to her family, she was fiercely
independent.
WAWRYSHYN continued to work part-time until the
age of 71 even though there was no need, her son said.
"And she refused to cash in her first pension cheque because
she said she didn't need it," he added.
"The Depression and World War 2 shattered the dreams of bringing
her family to Canada. Over the years, she helped support her
family, sending parcels of food and clothing and a few dollars
hidden in the lining of a coat, where she prayed they wouldn't
be discovered and confiscated by Soviet officials. The packages
included dozens of kerchiefs -- the colourful woollen scarves
typically worn by women in villages across Ukraine. They were
as valuable as gold back home. "Those kerchiefs paid for two
houses there," said
WAWRYSHYN.
His mother never returned to her
homeland.
Predeceased by her husband,
WAWRYSHYN leaves her son and his
wife Helen, daughter Mary
BERKETA and husband Ron and daughter
Anne; grandchildren Olena
WAWRYSHYN and husband Oleh
LESZCZYSZYN,
Oksana WAWRYSHYN,
Stephanie
DAWE and husband Greg and Christine
YUZWIN and husband Nick as well as great-grand_sons Matthew and
Michael DAWE.
She also leaves behind her sister Kateryna, 94,
in Ukraine, as well as many nephews and nieces.
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