Obituary
Our dearest mother, Mrs. Marie Turko, passed on to another life on November 12, 2016. Born Marie-Clarie Wilhelmina Antoinette LaLiberte on August 3, 1927 to “Toronto Girl” Gladys Yates and Quebecois Artisan Jean-Emile LaLiberte. “Tootsie” grew up in the Annex with “Buster” her brother Jack and lived nearby all her life. She attended Loretto Abbey and Central Tech High School studying commercial art. For a while she worked in the same firm as the artist C.W. Jefferys. Eventually she wed Michael Turko an Ukrainian Canadian railroad man and moved to a house on Davenport Rd. which would be her home for 63 years. It was a house, she reminisced, that she’d seen while seated on a stone wall beneath Spadina House on her lunch breaks at a long ago summer job. In that same house she raised 3 children, a son, Evon and 2 daughters, Cathy and Paula. Catherine married Peter Kozachenko and there are 2 grandsons, Daniel and Thomas. Survivors also include a niece and nephew. Our Little Mother was a loving and dutiful wife for 54 years, many of them absorbed caring for Michael, partially disabled in a serious industrial accident. Together they shared the beauty of 2 acquisitions; a Muskoka cottage on Gibson Lake and the Liturgy of St. Elias Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brampton; they bought the first in 1977 and shared in the foundation of the latter in 1978. It was a life circumscribed in detail but vast in patience, loving kindness and expectation of the best in all circumstances. Cancer tallied the total of her life, but the sum of love and hope was far greater. She was a gentle leaf who left its lodgement in the November wind. God grant you rest, dearest Mother. The service of Panachyda will take place Monday, November 14th at 7:30 p.m. at St. Elias Ukrainian Catholic Church (Bovaird and Heritage), Brampton. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, November 15th at 11:00 a.m. Interment to follow in Parish Cemetery. The family thanks the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for their kindness and care. Please donate to your favourite charity in her memory.Visitation
Date
November 14, 2016
November 14, 2016
Location
Time
6 p.m. with Panachyda at 7:30 p.m. at St. Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Catholic Church
6 p.m. with Panachyda at 7:30 p.m. at St. Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Catholic Church
Service
Date
November 15, 2016
November 15, 2016
Location
St. Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Catholic Church, 10193 Heritage Road, Brampton, ON
St. Elias the Prophet Ukrainian Catholic Church, 10193 Heritage Road, Brampton, ON
Time
11 a.m.
11 a.m.
Burial / Entombment / Cremation
Date
Location
St. Elias Parish Cemetery
St. Elias Parish Cemetery
Time
December 14, 2017
Dear Cathy and family, I am so sorry to read about the passing of your mother. She was a bright star and always smiling. She loved life. My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours during this sad and difficult time. Julie (Kowalchuk) Thayer
November 15, 2016
Dear Catherine
I am deeply saddened by the loss that you and your family have encountered. I pray that God will grant you the strength. My most sincere condolences to you and your family.
Agnes Bedorf
November 15, 2016
Dear Kozachenko Family,
My heart felt condolences to you and your family.
"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left"
Marie Turko rest in peace.
November 15, 2016
Your mother's obituary was so well written. She sounded likely a lovely and interesting woman who was dearly loved.
Thinking about you Catherine,
Blair Dunker
