Tetyana Georgievna Korsunskaya

She attended elementary school, middle school and high school all in Ukraine. In middle school she decided to join chess club. By the time she finished high school she had mastered the sport of chess. She competed in chess championships all across the Soviet Union. Later she became an arbiter of chess. She would travel the country and judge chess tournaments.

Following high school, she attended University and received a degree in engineering. She spent the majority of her life working on large IBM computers as a computer engineer.

She was a very logical person and enjoyed solving problems. Aside from her work, she had many hobbies. She loved to knit, to read, to travel and to garden. She visited many places such as Italy, France, Aruba and traveled extensively across the former Soviet Union and the United States. She moved to the United States in the year 2000 to be closer to her family. It was also during that year that she met her future husband. Later that year he proposed to her and she made the decision to stay in the United States and start a new life here with her new husband and family in Kansas.

Tetyana was a very strong-willed person and always conquered any challenge that came her way. One of the toughest challenges that she encountered in her life was her cancer diagnosis. In 2019 she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She courageously fought the cancer for six years. She went through multiple rounds of chemo and two bone marrow transplants. One transplant was from her own bone marrow and another transplant was from a donor. Her second treatment was successful; she was able to beat the cancer.

After the cancer went into remission, being the determined women she was, she repainted her home, replanted her garden, and visited Saint-Louis, MO, Branson, MO, and the states of Colorado and Florida.

She is now survived by her husband Uriy, her daughter Yelena, her son-in-law Dmitriy, her grandson Michael, her sister Valentina, and her cat Filimon. Aside from her family, Tetyana will be always remembered by all of the friends that she made throughout her life during her time in the Soviet Union and here in the United States. She will be missed by all of her friends and family and the time we all spent with her will be dearly cherished.

A visitation will be held on September 3, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm at Mt. Moriah, Newcomer & Freeman Funeral Home, located at 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri, 64131. The funeral service will follow at the same location from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Interment will take at 3:00 in Mount Moriah Cemetery South, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri, 64131.