Olga
Kukura
(née Kolach)
1932 - 2024
Born in Montreal, the only daughter of Ukrainian parents who fled “the old country” to start a life in a nation where prosperity, education, freedom and opportunity were at hand. Olga grew up in the famous Plateau de Montreal, where immigrants from so many European countries came to settle, seeking these very same rights and freedoms. Growing up on City Hall street (Hotel de Ville), and attending Montreal High, she met many friends of all languages and denominations, and eventually her husband Edward who worked as a bread delivery boy for her father’s Co-Op bakery on boul. Saint-Laurent (Sai...
Obituary
Olga Kukura (née Kolach)
1932 - 2024
Born in Montreal, the only daughter of Ukrainian parents who fled “the old country” to start a life in a nation where prosperity, education, freedom and opportunity were at hand. Olga grew up in the famous Plateau de Montreal, where immigrants from so many European countries came to settle, seeking these very same rights and freedoms. Growing up on City Hall street (Hotel de Ville), and attending Montreal High, she met many friends of all languages and denominations, and eventually her husband Edward who worked as a bread delivery boy for her father’s Co-Op bakery on boul. Saint-Laurent (Saint-Lawrence at the time). Despite being born in Canada, she spoke and read Ukrainian, the pride in her Slavic background illuminated, when she donned her Ukrainian dance costume, and sang and danced for the diaspora of Ukrainians in Montreal.
Olga worked at Sun Life of Canada for 40 years in the renowned neoclassical building, its Head Office at the time located on Dorchester (now Rene-Levesque), making many friends there as well.
Since the 1960’s, her happiest days were spent by Lac Ouareau in the cottage that her husband Edward built in Saint-Donat, where she would spend her time cultivating her gardens, reading the Classics, swimming, and enjoying the majestic beauty, and tranquility on the lake that her father referred to as; “the place where God goes to vacation.”
She will be dearly missed by her daughter Nina & husband Graeme Raymond, who in the last few years enjoyed visiting her with their family of furry, four legged children (Eddie and Arya).
There will be a private service.
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