Obit: Kuzjak, Paul (1900 - 1982)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Kuzjak, Trochanky, Jahn, Counsell, Dorsey, Hodynski

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/18/1982

Kuzjak, Paul (16 June 1900 – 9 November 1982)

Funeral services were held on Friday morning, November 12, for Paul Kuzjak, a Ukrainian immigrant who make his home in the Neillsville area for the past 29 years. Kuzjak, 82, passed away in Neillsville Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, November 9.

The Very Rev. Nikolai Hodynski officiated at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Lynn. The Gesche Funeral Home of Neillsville was in charge of arrangements. Burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers for the funeral service were the deceased’s sons and grandsons.

The deceased was born on June 16, 1900, in the Ukraine to Myron and Vera (Trochanky) Kuzjak. After his education, he worked in textile mills and farmed. During this period, he married Olena Jahn in June 19, 1932, ceremonies.

In 1949, the Kuzjak family moved to the United States. They first farmed in Pennsylvania for a short time and then moved to Chicago where he worked in the steel mills for three years. In 1953, the family move to the Town of Pine Valley where he farmed the remainder of his life. He was a member of Holy Trinity’s congregation.

Surviving him, besides his wife, are three sons, Victor of Neillsville, Valentin of Marshfield and Mick of Chicago; two daughters, Mrs. David (Helen) Counsell of Greenfield and Mrs. John (Maria) Dorsey of Eau Claire; a brother, Anton, Ukrainia; and eight grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sisters.