Luba Onuferko Obituary
Created May step one, 1926 inside the Skole (Lviv part), Ukraine, Luba Christine are new youngest youngster off Stefan and Neonila Dolnyckyj, sister to Mstyslav, Taras, and you will Zenon (all the dry). She complete elementary college and you can began their secondary knowledge within her home town out of Skole. Inside the conflict their family members was able to avoid so you can Vienna, where both their own parents passed away. She went on their particular supplementary knowledge together with other Ukrainian refugees inside the Salzburg and you may Graz. Following the war, she emigrated on U.S., since the did their particular two brothers Mstyslav and Zenon, paid from the their maternal cousin, Rev. Myron Danylowych, Ukrainian Catholic pastor in Minersville, PA. Their particular sibling Taras is actually forgotten on conflict, and his destiny stays unknown.
Inside 1947, she subscribed to the fresh new inaugural group on Manor Junior College or university, an effective Catholic liberal arts college founded from the Ukrainian Basilian Siblings (Acquisition away from St. Basil the nice), graduating when you look at the 1949. She married Markian T. Onuferko from inside the 1951 plus they common a lifetime to each other until their passing this current year. In the first years of its relationships Luba performed research really works during the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital and also at Booth, Garret, and you will Blair Laboratories, going to night categories during the Forehead College or university, at which she obtained a BS into the chemistry within the 1956.
Luba began their own training community on St. Basil’s Academy, where she instructed math and you will technology out of 1960-1967. Inside 1967 she try leased by the Higher Merion Twelfth grade (King away from Prussia, Pa.) to coach biochemistry. She are a person in brand new National Training Relationship plus the Pennsylvania County Education Connection. While practise, she continued her very own training, generating good master’s studies within the secondary education in the Temple College when you look at the 1969. She retired of teaching in the 1991.
While in the their own existence, Luba remained active in the Philadelphia area’s Ukrainian people. She was a founding member of St. Michael this new Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Chapel and try always expose during the the initial Week-end Divine Liturgy until pandemic constraints eliminated their unique out of going to. She supported since secretary-treasurer of your Boykivske Tovarystvo (Boyko Area Society) for decades. She try a life person in this new Ukrainian Federal Women’s Group out of America. She in addition to helped teacher immigrant Ukrainians inside the English and you may assisted numerous senior citizens in the neighborhood. She preferred traveling and you can ingrained inside her pupils a keen focus inside relatives roots, a passion for studies, of examining the fresh cities, as well as provider to help you someone else.
She’s endured of the: their college students — Martha O. DeBlieu along with her spouse, Kenneth An effective. DeBlieu, of Stockton, N.J., ab muscles Rev. Dr. Andrew T. Onuferko and his awesome spouse Maria Stecyszyn Onuferko out-of Ottawa, Towards. (Canada), and you can Nila Onuferko along with her spouse Norman Schoenfeld away from Maplewood, Letter.J.; her three grandchildren – Dr. Thomas Onuferko along with his wife Stephanie Tessier, Marijka DeBlieu and her spouse, and Anna Onuferko dateres noen fra et annet land lang avstand (a fourth grandchild, Basil Onuferko, passed away when you look at the 2013); along with her two higher granddaughters, Piper Kennedy and you may Emilia Victoria Onuferko. She’s including live by many people nieces and you can nephews and their parents, and George Dolnycky away from Feasterville, PA., Myron Dolnycky away from Baltimore, MD., Irene Dolnycky Tolley off Manassas, Va., and Anya Dolnyckyj Fat away from Robbinsville, N.J. She actually is fondly appreciated and mourned by their own many family members and family members into the Ukraine, America, and throughout the world.
New funeral service would be stored on Thursday, Oct. fifteen, at the St. Michael the latest Archangel’s Ukrainian Catholic Chapel, 1013 Fox Pursue Rd., Jenkintown, PA. Burial to adhere to at the St. Mary’s Ukrainian Cemetery, 438 Cedar Rd., Fox Pursue, PA. The latest funeral service features might be livestreamed with the parish Facebook page. Due to COVID-19 limits, church attendance could well be limited, with no public reception could well be stored nowadays. Burial agreements are increasingly being created by Fletcher-Nasevich Funeral service Home when you look at the Philadelphia, PA.
Luba Onuferko
In his tribute with the lifeless, Ukrainian Catholic Urban-Archbishop Most Rev. Borys Gudziak out-of Philadelphia typed: “A sensational woman, packed with pleasure, support for other individuals together with people total. Down-to-earth and you can beneficial… Mrs. Onuferko forced me to look anytime I noticed their own if you don’t concept of their. In my opinion one Luba Onuferko knew your Kingdom out of Jesus initiate right here, and you can she resided it here. Now Luba, off privileged memories, usually real time it in eternity.”
* Ukrainian Catholic Training Base (professionals Ukrainian Catholic University into the Lviv, Ukraine), 2247 W. Chi town Ave., Chicago, IL 60622, (773) 235-8462,
* Sisters of your Buy out-of St. Basil the nice, 710 Fox Pursue Rd., Fox Pursue Manor, PA 19046, (215) 379-3998, stbasils, get a hold of “Support” in the base out-of webpage.
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