OBITUARY

Anna Palczuk Harris of Pennsylvania

WILLOW GROVE, Pa. - Anna Palczuk Harris, 74, died of cancer at Holy Redeemer Hospital, Meadowbrook, Pa., on Monday, April 21. A funeral liturgy was celebrated on Friday, April 25, at Annunciation B.V.M. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Melrose, Pa., at 10:30 a.m. Burial took place at the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Williamstown, Pa.

Born in Williamstown, Pa., to Xenia Turchyn and Nicholas Palczuk, Anna Harris received a B.S. from Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pa., in 1944 and an M.Ed. in business education from Trenton State College, Trenton, N.J., in 1975. She had lived in Willow Grove, Pa., since 1958.

After retiring from 24 years of teaching, Mrs. Harris became active in numerous Ukrainian American organizations. She was named by Gov. Robert P. Casey in 1993 as the Ukrainian American commissioner for the Pennsylvania Heritage Commission and served on the boards of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, the Ukrainian National Choir, and the Ukrainian Professional Society's Advisory Board. She was the Philadelphia chairperson for the Conference of Ukrainian Catholic Laity in the United States and a member of the Ukrainian Federation of Greater Philadelphia. She served on the Chapel Finance Council and the Committee for the Basilian Spirituality Center, both committees that helped the Sisters of St. Basil the Great in Fox Chase, Pa.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 32 years, Clifford Campbell Harris, in 1980. Survivors include her children Jane Woodside of Johnson City, Tenn.; Nicholas Harris of Arlington, Va.; and Richard Harris, a merchant seaman; her sister Jane Ihnatolya of Latham, N.Y; her brother N. Charles Palczuk of Durham, N.C.; and three grandchildren, Jessica, Christopher and Nicholas Woodside, all of Johnson City, Tenn.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 11, 1997, No. 19, Vol. LXV

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