Lydia Sophia Jarosewich

With great sadness, the family of Lydia Jarosewich announces her peaceful passing in her home in Washington DC on February 15, 2023. A beloved wife and mother, she was born Lydia Sophia Makarushka on September 18, 1933, in Lviv, Ukraine. She spent many of her early years in a Europe torn by the Second World War. In post-war Germany, while working as a secretary and text translator for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, she met and married her husband of more than 50 years, Eugene Jarosewich, who predeceased his wife in April 2007. The young couple came to Chicago in 1955, and in 1963, moved to the Washington DC metro area where they remained. For more than 30 years, Lydia was a medical administrator, having retired from Georgetown University Hospital in 2002. She leaves behind her children, daughter Irene Jarosewich and son-in-law Aleksandr Burakovskiy, daughter Martha Jarosewich Holder, son Andrew Jarosewich and daughter-in-law Tania and four grandchildren, Nicholas, Daniel, Timothy and Alexandra Jarosewich. Visitation will be at the funeral home Joseph Gawler’s Sons at 5130 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC on Friday, March 10, 2023, from 4pm until 7pm. A memorial service accompanied by remembrances from family and friends will begin at 4.30pm. At 9.30am on Saturday, March 11, a funeral service will be held at Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, 4250 Harewood Rd NE, Washington, DC, followed by interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, 4111 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hillcrest Heights, MD. In lieu of flowers, and in keeping with Lydia’s final wishes, donations can be made to: National Bank of Ukraine (https://bank.gov.ua/en/ - please choose link for “The Armed Forces”); or to: Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (https://unwla.org/ - please choose Humanitarian Aid in dropdown menu and indicate “War Victims Fund in memory of Lydia Jarosewich” in special instructions). From Lydia’s family: we thank all for their kind words, for donations made in her memory, for your good thoughts, and prayers for the peaceful repose of her soul.