UNA and community activist Anna Haras dead at 82 (04/06/03)

UNA and community activist Anna Haras dead at 82

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Anna Haras, former supreme advisor of the Ukrainian National Association and an honorary member of the UNA General Assembly, died on Monday, March 31. She was 82.

Mrs. Haras was a UNA advisor from 1970 through 1986, serving four terms in that office. She was also secretary of UNA Branch 47 in Lehigh Valley, Pa., since 1968, and headed the Allentown UNA District Committee.

Since 1986 she has been an honorary member of the Ukrainian National Association's Supreme Assembly (today called the General Assembly), a distinction given to UNA leaders in recognition of many years of service to the organization.

Her community activity extended beyond the UNA, to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, which she served as head of the Lehigh Valley branch; the Women's Association for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, in which she held key posts both on the regional and national levels; and the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, in which she was a founder and longtime member of the organization's branch in Bethlehem, Pa.

Surviving are her son, Roman Haras, with his wife, Kateryna, and daughter, Mariyka; her daughter, Oksana Koziak, with her husband, Mathew; and siblings and other family members in the United States and her native Zakarpattia region of Ukraine.

The family has requested memorial donations to: Anna Haras Scholarship Fund, c/o Self Reliance National Federal Credit Union, 35 Main St., South Bound Brook, N.J. 08880.

A memorial service was held on April 4, and funeral services followed the next day with the funeral liturgy offered at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Bethlehem, and burial at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J.

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