DMYTRO F. ZYLA

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DMYTRO F. ZYLA Born in Galicia, Western Ukraine, September 3, 1901, died peacefully at Seven Oaks Hospital on May 31, 2002, after a brief illness. He wanted to live to 104 and almost made it. Mr. Zyla served in four armies - the Austro-Hungarian army, the Polish army, the independent Ukrainian-Galician army, and as a POW in the Bolshevik army, evading capture several times, mastering, among other skills, horse-manship in the Polish cavalry and surviving a gunshot wound to the leg. He entertained visitors with extraordinary tales as well as elaborate paper-mache models of village life in Ukraine, and he baked a mean "perishok". The success in Canada of Mr. Zyla and his wife Maria Kostyshyn Zyla was perhaps best seen through his children, Sonia Zyla Skibo and Lyubko (Walter) Zyla, who both became vale-dictorians of their Winnipeg high school classes and went on to graduate studies and top-level political careers. Mr. Zyla is survived by grandchildren, Roman Zyla, Mark Skibo, Melana Zyla Vickers and Libid Zyla; two great-grandchildren, Meletiy Zyla and Oksana Vickers; and a sister Nusia Zyla Kowalsky. Panachyda at the Korban Funeral Chapel, Tuesday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m. (956-2193). Services, Wednesday, June 5 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Vladimir and Olga Cathedral. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Taras Shevchenko Society or the Cancer Society. Vichnaya Pamyat.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jun 04, 2002