Anastasia Kusznier

Anastasia Kusznier
née Porichuk
Born	1924-03-17 Sosulicka, Ukraine
Died	2015-12-26
Partner	John Kusznier

Anastasia "Stella" Kusznier (née Porichuk; (1924-03-17)17 March 1924 – 26 December 2015(2015-12-26) (aged 91)) was a Ukrainian-born nursing assistant who worked at the Port Arthur General Hospital and the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital.

Life and family

Stella was born on 17 March 1924 in the village of Sosulicka, Ukraine, and came to Port Arthur in 1930, aged six, with her mother and older brother Steve to join her father. She married John Kusznier, and they were together for 57 years. She began in the kitchen of the Port Arthur General Hospital, then trained as a registered nursing assistant and worked at that hospital and later at the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital, retiring after 20 years.

She belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Protection and later to St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church. She and John lived for a time in California and British Columbia but returned to Thunder Bay, which they always thought of as home. She enjoyed gardening, bowling, curling and golf, and was a member of the Strathcona Golf Course. She died at her residence at Pinewood Court on 26 December 2015, aged 91.

Notes

• The existing John Kusznier page is linked as her husband because the 1950 directory lists a wife Stella at the same Port Arthur household; the obituary gives no occupation for him.