1985: A LOOK BACK: Deaths in the community (12/29/85)

1985: A LOOK BACK

Deaths in the community

During the year, Ukrainians mourned the passing of several community leaders, writers, cultural activists and other prominent persons. Among them were the following.

Ivan Palyvoda, 99, former minister of postal and telegraph services of the Ukrainian National Republic and long-time director of St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church Archives Museum - January 30.
Archbishop-Metropolitan Andrew Metiuk, 87, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada - February 2.
Natalia Zabila, 81, editor and award-winning author known for her children's books - February 6.
Metropolitan Hryhorij Osijchuk, 87, leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church (Sobornopravna) - February 13.
Victor Herman, 69, American born of Ukrainian parents who went to the Soviet Union in 1931 as a teenager and returned to the United States in 1976 after spending 18 years in labor camps and in exile in Siberia; author of a book on his experiences, "Coming Out of the Ice," which was the basis of a 1982 TV movie - March 25.
Walter N. Nackoney, 71, former national American Athletic Union track champ - April 6.
Nadia Surovtseva-Olytska, 88, writer, art historian and early supporter of the Ukrainian National Republic, political prisoner during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, subject of KGB searches during the 1970s as a result of her contacts with dissidents and intellectuals in Ukraine - April 13.
Yuriy Stefanyk, 76, former president of Slovo, the Ukrainian Canadian Writers' Association, lawyer and literary critic - April 25.
Lydia Vins, 78, political prisoner persecuted for her religious activity by the Soviets, mother of Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist leader Georgi Vins - May 19.
Roman Zavadovych, 81, noted children's author and co-editor of the Veselka children's magazine, creator of the beloved cartoon character Gnomyk Romtomtomyk, among others - May 31.
Walter Dushnyck, 76, author, scholar, journalist and community activist, long-time editor of The Ukrainian Quarterly - September 5.
Dr. Daniel Bohachevsky, 95, retired lawyer and businessman, former officer of the Ukrainian Galician Army - September 11.
Dr. Rostyslaw Sochynsky, 68, Ukrainian community activist perhaps best known for his involvement with the New York City-based Ukrainian Institute of America - September 17.
Dr. Bohdan Lonchyna, 68, president of the Ukrainian Patriarchal World Federation - September 27.
Dr. Volodymyr Kubijovyc, 85, renowned scholar, author and anthropogeographer, editor of the monumental "Entsyklopedia Ukrainoznavstva" - November 1.
Jacques Hnizdovsky, 70, internationally acclaimed artist and master of the woodcut art - November 8.