YEKATERINA SUKHOLUTSKAYA
ADA-Services for Yekaterina Sukholutskaya, 87, of Ada are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Alvin Turner will officiate.
Mrs. Sukholutskaya died Sunday, September 26, 2010 from complications of cancer. She was born August 24, 1923 in Odessa, Ukraine to Mikhail and Rosa Feldmer. She graduated from school #6 in Kiev, Ukraine and received a degree in Jurisprudence from Kiev National University.
She married Emmanuel (Muniy) Sukholutskiy on December 6, 1949 in Kiev, Ukraine. He preceded her in death on June 27, 1996 in Kiev. In 1997 Mrs. Sukholutskaya moved to Ada, OK from Kiev and later lived in Irvington, NJ from 2001 through August 2010. She became a citizen of the United States of America in 2003. She was a lawyer and volunteered as a legal counselor at the Veterans Office in Kiev. She was a Veteran of the Great Patriotic War from 1941 - 1945.
Survivors include a daughter, Dr. Mara Sukholutskaya of Ada; two granddaughters, Anya Kricsfeld and husband David of Overland Park, KS and Masha Trenhaile and husband Brent of Champaign, IL; and a great grandson, Mark (Marik) Kricsfeld.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and a sister, Esmeralda.
Memorials can be made to ECU Foundation – Sukholutskaya Family Study Abroad Scholarship, c/o East Central University Foundation, P. O. Box Y-8, Ada, OK 74821.
Honorary pallbearers include: Joe Barnes of Rosedale, OK; Leonid Hrabovskiy of Irvington, NJ; Jim Green of Ada, OK; George Platt, of Oklahoma City, OK; Joseph Polisski of Vancouver, BC; and Artur Zagorodnev of Irvington, NJ.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada