Jul 24, 1931 - Dec 16, 2022
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Novolabun, Ukraine
Mannford, Oklahoma, USA
gardening, church-going
borsch, chicken noodle, potatoes and meat, scrambled eggs
old-time Christian hymns
He survived Holodomor (Soviet Ukraine’s Great Famine) and WWII. He was a graveyards man. He enjoyed gardening and building.
You fought a good fight.
time with his sons
backyard with the chickens
Christian
Stephan was the youngest, from a family of seven, born in 1931, in a small town of Novolabun, Ukraine. He had three brothers, Dem’yan, Semen, Ivan, and a sister Mariya.
He is survived by two sons and a daughter from his first marriage to Julia Mihailovna Yargunina-Kravchuk- Uriy, Aleksander, Nina; as well as his four sons from his second marriage to Tatyana Alekseevna Bondarenko-Kravchuk- Paul, Poytr, Ivan, Nikolay.
He lived in Berdychiv, Ukraine until migrating to America in December 1990, just months before Ukraine became its own country.
At a time of his passing, he is known to have 15 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Stephan will be remembered by his gardening skills, his perseverance through hardships, and his faith in the good Lord. He enjoyed the outdoors until his last days.
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Novolabun, Ukraine
Mannford, Oklahoma, USA