Obituaries Archives – Page 2 of 9 – The Ukrainian Weekly (2024)

This is not about the war. This is about all of Ukraine’s wars, spanning centuries, and one man, a poet,…

PHILADELPHIA – John Bura, auxiliary bishop emeritus of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, died on January 17 at Georgetown…

OTTAWA – Eugene Melnyk, owner of the National Hockey League’s (NHL’s) Ottawa Senators and the son of Ukrainian-born parents, died…

CHICAGO – Valery Khmelko, an internationally renowned sociologist who was the chairman of the sociology department at the National University…

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – George Sawchak, a former ranked U.S. Tennis Association Middle States player and member of the Ukrainian Sports Hall of Fame and the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), died on August 21 after battling a long illness, according to his wife. He was 82.

KYIV – A prominent statesman who helped shape Ukraine’s nationhood during much of its formative years after renewed independence in…

LVIV – Olexander Roytburd, a postmodern artist and a leader of the Ukrainian “New Wave” artistic movement, died on August 8. His death was first reported by the Odesa Fine Arts Museum where Mr. Roytburd was a director since 2018. He was 59.

TORONTO – The late professor Dr. Bohdan Medwidsky passed into eternity as a result of the COVID-19 virus. A brother, uncle, brother-in-law, founder and benefactor of the Kule Folklore Centre and the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Mr. Medwidsky was 84.

Serhiy Proskurnya, renown Ukrainian theater director, producer, winner of the prestigious Serhiy Danchenko Award and the laureate of the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine “Experiment” Award, died on February 1.

The following is the first article to appear on the digitized website of Our Sport (“Nash Sport”) magazine (www.nashsport.org). It was written in honor of Omelan Twardow­sky, who started Our Sport magazine and who ensured the publication continued for 54 years before his passing in 2019.

The Very Rev. Archpriest John Michael Fields of Frackville, Pa., entered into eternity on Friday, November 27. The son of the late John “Jack” Fields and Olga Uhryn Fields, John was born on February 19, 1950, in Butler Township, Pa., and is survived by his sister Diane M. Berkheiser and her husband Dennis, and sister MaryAnn Fields-Whyne; nephew Keith John Berkheiser and his wife Shawn, niece Kristen A. Berkheiser, niece Katharine A. Whyne and her husband Chris, and niece Maria A. Whyne; great-niece Caroline G. Berkheiser and great-nephew Wyatt “Jack” Berkheiser.