1986: A LOOK BACK

Deaths in the community

During 1986, Ukrainians learned of the passing of several prominent community leaders and cultural activists. Among them were the following.

• Yuriy Deba, 72, Ukrainian Canadian businessman who donated $100,000 for the construction of a monument in Jerusalem in memory of victims of Communist and Nazi terror in Ukraine - January 2.
  
  
• Bishop Neil N. Savaryn OSBM, 81, of the Edmonton Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church - January 8.
  
  
• Anthony Dragan, 73, longtime editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian-language daily newspaper Svoboda, author, member of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - February 2.
  
  
• The Rev. John Barchuk, 82, Ukrainian Baptist pastor, preacher and writer, executive officer of the Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Convention of Churches in the United States - March 13.
  
  
• Stefan Rosocha, 78, editor of Vilne Slovo, a Ukrainian-language weekly newspaper published in Toronto and cabinet minister in the short-lived Carpatho-Ukrainian government - April 20.
  
  
• Ihor Olshaniwsky, 56, president and founding member of Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine, chairman of the Committee for the Defense of Valentyn Moroz - May 8.
  
  
• Natalia Kotowych, renowned pianist and president of the Ukrainian Music Institute - June 11.
  
  
• Yaroslav Stetzko, 74, head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (revolutionary faction) and prime minister of Ukraine during World War II - July 5.
  
  
• Paul Yuzyk, 73, Canadian senator for 23 years, "Father of Multiculturalism," chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, the Ukrainian National Association's supreme director for Canada, historian - July 9.
  
  
• Maria Levytsky, 68, actress and director of Ukrainian theater in Canada - August 7.
  
  
• John Oryniak, 70, national treasurer of Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine - August 25.
  
  
• Augustine Stefan, 93, speaker of the Diet (parliament) of Carpatho-Ukraine, and minister of education during that state's brief existence - September 4.
  
  
• Anthony J. Kutcher, 66, former national commander of Ukrainian American Veterans - October 2.
  
  
• Vitaliy Sazonov, artist who emigrated from Ukraine in 1981, was found dead in his apartment in Munich sometime in mid-October. A farewell note was found next to the body and police quickly ruled the death a suicide. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was most likely a heart attack.
  
  
• Metropolitan Andrei Kuschak, 85, titular metropolitan of Eukarpia, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America - November 17.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 1986, No. 52, Vol. LIV

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