Maria Chraplyvy

Maria Chraplyvy, 94, passed away on July 17, 2013 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born in Sokolya, Ukraine in 1918 of parents Paraskeviya (Lukotska) and Mykola Kuryletz. She was a research chemist at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., where she also was a parishioner of St. Mary's Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church. After the death in 1983 of her husband Zenobius Chraplyvy, a Ukrainian physicist, she moved to NJ where she was a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark. She was a life-long member of Plast and a member of UNWLA. She is survived by a son Andrew and his wife Christine and a daughter Helen and her husband Tom Mess, and grandchildren Mark, Adrian, and Natalia Chraplyvy and Daniel and Katy Mess. She was predeceased by her brother Andriy. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to Shevchenko Scientific Society 63 4th Ave. New York, NY 10003 Or St. John the Baptist Church Charities 719 Sandford Ave. Newark, NJ 07106