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Mary Paliwoda Siwak 1899-2006 Mary Paliwoda Siwak was bom in 1899 in the village of Lany, Ukraine. Her father, the mayor of Lany, established a school and library on land he donated to the village; her uncle Vasyl erected a monument honoring Taras Shevchenko nearby. With the help of her brother, Mary arrived in Detroit in 1920. Within two years, she married Joseph Siwak. May and Joseph had two sons: Joseph and John. Joseph died of leukemia at the age of 16; John served in the armed forces in Germany. While raising a family, the couple also opened a restaurant. No one who was hungry was ever turned away. After Joseph’s death in 1944, Mary continued to run the restaurant—which was very popular with customers who found it a good place to socialize—until her retirement. God had blessed her with a good memory and she frequently amused friends and family members by recollecting dinners that sold for 25 cents and 5-cent cups of coffee. May joined the UNWLA in 1955 and became an active member of Detroit’s Branch 5, serving as financial secretary for 14 years. In 1968, she visited Ukraine where she was reunited with sisters and brothers she had not seen for many decades and met, for the first time, numerous nieces and nephews. Mary was a faithful parishioner of St. John’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Detroit and attended parish banquets and other events until she was incapacitated. For 23 years, as her health worsened, her son John and his wife Beatrice cared for Mary. After a bad fall, Mary moved to Warren’s Abbey, a facility for the elderly. It was at the Abbey that she celebrated her 107th birthday, a gala event attended by friends and family members. To commemorate the day, Warren’s mayor issued a special proclamation in her honor. Not long after, on December 4, 2006, Mary passed away. A great lady has left us, someone who truly loved God, His people, and Ukraine. Olena Teliha Olena Shovheniv Teliha was born on July 21, 1907 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her family moved to Kyiv in 1917, a move that propelled a young girl of ten years of age into a brief but fiery life as a writer, a nationalist, and a legend. A witness to the birth and subsequent demise of the Ukrainian National Republic, Olena was profoundly influenced by what she saw and heard in Kyiv. When she and her family moved to Prague in the early 1920s, these early impressions were reshaped and sharpened in the company of emigre students with whom she studied at Prague’s Pedagogical Institute. In 1929, Olena married Mykhailo Teliha and the couple moved to Warsaw, where they found work as teachers. Ten years later, as Germany laid siege to Warsaw, they fled to Cracow where they were soon immersed in a community of young Ukrainians deter mined to fight for an independent Ukraine. It was during this time period that Olena joined Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Teaching and writing, she was elected head of a literary-artistic society based in Cracow and became a regular contributor to the nationalist journal Vistnyk, which was published in Lviv. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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