OBITUARY: Sister Macrina Goida, Basilian nun active in eastern U.S.

FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa. - Sister Macrina Goida, OSBM, died on Sunday, September 17, here at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Basil the Great. Sister Macrina entered the Sisters of St. Basil on May 25, 1930, and pronounced her final vows on August 28, 1940.

On Tuesday, September 19, the Rev. Edward Higgins and the Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, motherhouse chaplain, presided over the sisters' singing of the parastas for Sister Macrina, and on Wednesday, September 20, the Rev. Kaszczak celebrated the divine liturgy for Sister Macrina's funeral.

Afterwards, a beautiful eulogy was given by Sister Dolores Orzel, OSBM, house superior and assistant provincial.

Throughout the years, Sister Macrina was missioned to parishes in Astoria, Watervliet, and Brooklyn, N.Y., Cleveland, Newark, N.J., Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, and Washington.

Sister Macrina was born to Gregory Goida and Kathryn Zerebny Goida in Ormrod, Pa. She is survived by a sister, Anna Mantanari; her sister-in-law, Mary Goida, who was married to her late brother, Nicholas; a niece, Patricia Seidel; and a nephew, Jerome Goida.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 12, 2006, No. 46, Vol. LXXIV

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