Helena SZRAMENKO

PIOTROWSKI, Helena 2008-01-29 It is with great sadness that the family of Helena Piotrowski (Szramenko) announces her sudden passing on Sunday, January 27, 2008 in Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre with her family at her side. Helena was born in Cherkasa, Ukraine and moved to Germany as a young woman to work and it was there she met Stanislaus and fell in love and they were married in 1945. In 1951 they immigrated to Canada with their three children and made Thunder Bay (Port Arthur) their home. Her family was her whole life. Helena attended St. Mary‘s Our Lady Queen of Poland Church and was very active in perogy making at the Church. She loved everyone she worked with and always had a joke or two to tell. She had a very loving and bubbly personality, made friends easily and always had a kind word to say about everyone. She enjoyed knitting, especially slippers for her friends and hats for the Red Cross Society. She loved having company drop in for coffee and conversation and laughs. She enjoyed the casino and loved her annual trips to Black Bear with her daughter Mary. She is survived by sons Pawel, Henry (Betty), daughter Mary (William) Hughes, grandchildren Roxie McIntyre of Warburg, Alberta, Wade (Maureen) Hughes, and Christopher (Amy) Piotrowski, great grandchildren Shylo Fadden, Dakota and Kayla Johnson,Audra-Lynn McIntyre, Heather and Amy Hughes, and Maizey Paige Piotrowski, and great great grandchildren Breanna, Marc, Ashton and Tanisha Fadden. Helena was predeceased by her husband Stanislaus in 1979. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Helena Piotrowski will be held on Friday, February 1, 2008 with family and friends gathering at St. Mary‘s Our Lady Queen of Poland Roman Catholic Church for Funeral Mass at 10:00 AM celebrated by Father I. Stadler. Interment to follow in St. Andrew‘s R.C. Cemetery. Visitation for friends will be on Thursday evening in the EVEREST FUNERAL CHAPEL, 299 Waverley St. at Algoma after 6:00 PM, with the Vigil Prayers offered at 7:45 PM. Should friends so desire, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or to St. Mary‘s Our Lady Queen of Poland Church would be greatly appreciated. Please sign the online condolences at everestofthunderbay.com