LUCZKIW, Vladimira 'Wolodymyra' (Turczyniak) - Passed away peacefully on September 4, 2021 in the company of family at the Ivan Franko Home for the Aged in Toronto.
Wolodymyra was born on September 11, 1922 in the historic town of Olesko in Halychyna (Galicia) in Ukraine. Her father, Andrij (Andreas) Turczyniak, was a prosperous businessman in Lviv.
Her mother, née Maria Jakymowycz, loved the countryside and preferred to spend time at their family property at Terebezhi near Olesko.
Wolodymyra had one brother, Tadej (Ted), which was unusual, as families were quite large in those days.
There were, however, many cousins, almost all of whom were later repressed, killed, or exiled to Siberia by the Bolsheviks.
She is survived by her children, Maria Subtelny and George Luczkiw; grandson, Alexander Subtelny; nieces, Oksana Stein and her husband, Volker, and their sons, Alexander and Christian; Christine Chisholm and her husband, Brock, and their children, Andrew and Alanna; niece and god-daughter, Liliana Turczyniak; and nephew, Andrew Turczyniak, and his wife, Rebecca Lea, and their children, Teddy and Olivia. She is also survived by her cousin in Ukraine, Halyna Radkovskyy, and her husband, Roman, and their sons, Ostap and Taras.
Mass will be performed at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto on Friday, September 10, at noon, followed by burial. There will be no visitation at the Cardinal Funeral Home.
The family requests that flowers not be sent. If you would like to make a donation in Wolodymyra’s name, the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (UCRDC) and the Ivan Franko Homes were close to her heart.
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