Paraskevia Lewicky

PARASKEVIA LEWICKY (PEARL) (nee Stepanchuk, Harasymchuk) Born in Ponikovitsya, Ukraine, January 25, 1935. Died peacefully at Princess Margaret Hospital on Thursday, November 25, 2010, with her daughter Katherine and dear friend Olya by her side. Pearl was a dedicated volunteer who spent many years as a musical conductor to the celebrated Kalyna Girls' Choir, Haidemacky Male Chorus and Kalyna Orchestra; a central focus at the Kiev Pavilion during Toronto's Caravan. She was recipient of the Canada Birthday Achievement Award and honoured by the Canadian Ukrainian Community with the Shevchenko Memorial Medal. A private investigator by trade, Pearl was also an accomplished symphony violinist and long time member and past president of the Ukrainian Women's Organization. She is predeceased by her beloved parents Alexander and Pauline Stepanchuk and sister Olga, by her husbands William Harasymchuk and recently Morris Lewicky. Pearl leaves behind her brothers and sisters-in-law, sixteen nieces and nephews of the families, Morris (late Ann) Hoshowsky, Mary (late Bill) Kohut, Metro and Nina, Danny and Olga, Renee (late Peter) Harasymchuk, Agnes and John Kendall and family in the United States and Ukraine. She leaves behind daughter Katherine, dear son-in-law Douglas and beloved grandson Michael William Derma. Missed by her good friends and neighbours. The family thanks the many medical professionals who tended to Pearl during months of illness, Dr. Kozak, OTMH, EMS, CCAS, Red Cross, and especially her doctors and 'guardian angels' at Princess Margaret Hospital. Friends may call at the Turner & Porter 'Neweduk - Erin Mills' Chapel, 1981 Dundas St. W., Mississauga, (just east of Erin Mills Pkwy.), on Sunday from 5-9 and Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 404 Bathurst St., on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 11 a.m. Interment Prospect Cemetery. If desired, remembrances may be made to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society. May she rest in peace. Vichnaya Pamyat