Helen (Kutcher) Wasynczuk

Helen (Kutcher) Wasynczuk, 96, of Rocky Hill, beloved wife for 65 years of Eugene Wasynczuk, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday (July 15, 2014) surrounded by her loving family. Born in Waterbury in July 1918, she was the daughter of the late Dmytro and Natalie (Marcijas) Kutcher. She graduated from Hartford Public High School and went on to earn her BSN from St. Agnes College in Philadelphia and her Masters in Nursing Management from the University of Pennsylvania. Helen had a long nursing career at Hartford Hospital. She was a former member of the Ukrainian Women’s League in Hartford and was also a member of the Ukrainian National Home. She was a longtime, faithful and active member of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and was proud of her Ukrainian heritage. More than anything, however, she was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. In addition to her husband Eugene, Helen will be dearly missed by her two sons, Eugene C. Wasynczuk and wife Virginia and Stephen T. Wasynczuk and wife Nadia and her two adored grandchildren, Alicia Wasynczuk and Nikolis Wasynczuk and wife Kristen. Helen was very proud of her two sons and their wives and her beloved grandchildren and granddaughter-in-law, to whom she gave her unconditional love. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by two brothers and sisters-in-law, Michael and Ann Kutcher and Anthony and Stella Kutcher and her sister and brother-in-law, Ann and Michael Melnyk.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday (July 19) at 10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, 135 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford, CT 06114. Everyone is asked to please go directly to the church. Burial will follow in St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Cemetery, Glastonbury. Calling hours will be Friday from 5-7 p.m. with a Panakhyda service at 6:45 p.m. at the D’Esopo Funeral Chapel, 277 Folly Brook Blvd., Wethersfield. Donations in Helen’s memory may be made to St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (see address above). For online expressions of sympathy to the family, please visit www.desopo.com.