Carolyn "Kay" Fedorko

CAROLYN “KAY” FEDORKO passed away peacefully last week from renal failure and congestive heart failure on March 8, 2016 surrounded by her immediate family. The former Johnsonburg, PA native was 90 years old. A Memorial Mass will be held for Kay this Thursday (March 17th) at 1130am at St. Michael’s the Archangel Church in Grand Prairie, with a luncheon of remembrance to follow at the Church.

Kay Fedorko, whose maiden name was Muroski, was an exemplary member of ‘America’s Greatest Generation’ and lived an accomplished and diverse life: she worked as a riveter on DC-3 aircraft in Chicago during WWII, after attending design school in New York and teaching sales staff of the Singer Sewing Machine company about their sewing machines. A resident of Grand Prairie, Texas since 1957, Kay worked as a seamstress in neighboring Dallas and made draperies & wall coverings for some of the finest homes in the Metroplex. Even on that seamstress salary, Kay, who was widowed in 1979, managed to see to it that all three of her children (Steve (63), Phyllis (61) and John (50)) attained Catholic schools through high school and then attain college degrees at public, Catholic, and private universities, respectively.

The lifelong Democrat was active in local politics, and was selected to serve on both Grand Prairie’s Parks & Recreation Board as well as the Planning and Zoning Committee in the early 1980s. Kay graduated from Johnsonburg High School in 1942 at the age of 16, and was the salutatorian of her 100+ student class. Notwithstanding Kay’s blue-collar job as a wage earner, she was extremely well read in history and politics, in addition to being an accomplished traveler—both as a married person and a widow. Kay had visited almost all of Western Europe before the fall of the Soviet Union, and also visited far-flung places like New Zealand, Honduras and Australia on her own. She also visited every US state, except Hawaii.

In later years, Kay happily and naturally assumed the role of a doting and loving grandmother to her spoiled grandchildren, currently aged today from 31 to 12. In addition to being survived by her 3 children and 7 grandchildren/2 step-grandchildren, Kay is also survived by her last remaining sibling, Marge. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly asks that memorial donations be made to the American Kidney Fund (www.kidneyfund.org).

Arrangements under the direction of Funeraria Del Angel, Grand Prairie, TX.