S. Long

Russell married Nellie Annie Lukey on 6 Sep 1957 in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada. Nellie (daughter of Peter Lukey and Eugenia (Hannah) Chemerys (Chermyzie)) was born on 6 Mar 1922 in Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada; died on 30 Sep 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary
The family of Mrs. Nellie Long wife of the late Russell Long of Preeceville, sadly announce her passing on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. She was 98 years of age.

A visitation for family and friends will be held on Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. from the Chapel of Preeceville Funeral Home.

Relatives and friends are invited to the Funeral Mass which will be celebrated on Monday at 11:00 am from St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Sturgis.

Current Public Health guidelines and physical distancing will practised.

Relatives and friend wishing to support the family can also view a livestream of the funeral by clicking on the link below.

The interment will follow in the Preeceville Community Cemetery.

Memorial donations in memory of Nellie Long may be made to Preeceville Home Care or to St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church as gifts of remembrance.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Preeceville Funeral Home.

Nellie Anne (Lukey) Long was born on March 6, 1922 in Canora, Saskatchewan to Peter and Hannah (Eugenia) Lukey. Nellie was the youngest of 8, having 1 sister and 6 brothers. Nellie's parents had immigrated from Ukraine separately, met in Winnipeg, married and headed west to homestead near Norquay.

Nellie received her education at Westerlund and Norquay Schools. At 10 years of age Nellie was at home sick for a week when the doctor decided she must be sent to the hospital 30 miles away in Canora. They made a bed in the sleigh and travelled by team and sleigh to hospital where she had her ruptured appendix removed the following morning. After completing her grade 11, the highest grade available in Norquay, Nellie helped on the family farm.

In 1942 Nellie got a job with the bank of Toronto, later the Toronto Dominion Bank. In 1952she came back home to care for her father when her mother passed away. Her father passed away in 1953. She went back to the T.D. Bank until 1960, working in various branches in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia.

Nellie met Russell Long during W.W.II and on September 6, 1957 they married in Preeceville. In 1960 their first daughter, Susan, was born, and in 1962 their second daughter, Shirley. Nellie stayed at home with the children then. From 1967 to 1972 Nellie was Secretary Treasurer for the Preeceville Rural Telephone Co. Meetings were held at her house once a month, and on those evening Russell and the girls were told to stay in their rooms and be quiet!

In 1972 Nellie started working at Formo Motors Ltd. in Preeceville as the accountant bookkeeper. In 1986 she retired from Formo Motors.

Nellie loved gardening, knitting, and spending as much time as possible with the grand children. She was also an avid curler. Many winters were spent in rinks attending bonspiels and socializing! Another love was Bingo. She often attended locally and loved Kinsmen Radio Bingo on Saturday nights. Her luck was frequent! She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi in Preeceville, a fellowship centered on positive lifestyles. Nellie was a Founding Member of the Preeceville and District Heritage Museum and received an Honorary Lifetime Membership in 2014. Nellie and Russell were also members of Club 60 in Preeceville and it was there Nellie enjoyed carpet bowling. Her most noted involvement was in the CWL which she became a member of in 1957. It was just over the last couple of years that it became too difficult for her to attend. But her faith grew even stronger. She also sang for years in the St. Patrick Church choir.

Nellie loved going downtown each day for coffee to socialize, a practice she started with Russell. She loved fall suppers, Christmas concerts, and carol festivals. But the time when you really saw her face light up was then the grand children and great grandchildren came over. They were her world.

Nellie was predeceased by her parents in 1952 and 1953, her husband Russell in 2005, and all her siblings. She leaves to mourn daughter Susan (Jim), daughter Shirley (Dervin), 3 grand daughters Alishia, Carmilla (Matt), and Jerrica (Andrew), 6 Great Grandchildren Reagen, Tanesha, Quilana, Torsten, Sadie, and Emeric, 2 sisters-in-law Anne Lukey and Margaret Lukey, and numerous nieces and nephews.

William married Thilda Myrfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Records from the Greek Catholic Registers of the Village of Babyntsi.
- Lukiy Petro (Lukij Petrus) 26.08.1876 DOB.

Cobblestone Research 2020

LUKIY KYRYLO (Lukij Cyrillus) was born in 1849 (your information). He married Maria Oleksiuk, p.Dmytro and Iryna Byrka (Maria Oleksiuk, p.Demetrius et Irena Byrka). She was from the building No 58. They lived in the building No 58, later in the building No 295, and had
at least - 9 children:
Lukiy Petro (Lukij Petrus) 26.08.1876 DOB.
Lukiy Ivan (Lukij Joannes) 13.01.1879 – 22.01.1879
Lukiy Theodor (Lukij Theodorus) 7.03.1880 – 18.02.1881
Lukiy Vasylyna (Lukij Basilina) 25.01.1882 DOB.
Lukiy Mykhaylo (Lukij Michael) 20.11.1883 – 26.11.1883
Lukiy Semen (Lukij Simeon) 3.10.1885 DOB.
Lukiy Roman (Lukij Romanus) 9.10.1888 – 22.07.1890
Lukiy Vasyl (Lukij Basilius) 9.10.1888 – 24.12.1892 (twins with Roman) Lukiy Andriy (Lukij Andreas) 22.09.1892 DOB.

Lukey Family

In 1898 and ambitious young man immigrated to Canada, spending a year in this country and writing spirited letters to his parents. Peter convinced them to make the move around 1900. Karl and Maria Lukey packed her belongings, bringing with them their three younger children - Wasylena (17), Simon (14), and Andrew (8).
Making their way by a train, they first settled in Grandview, Manitoba, and lived there for four years. Finding the land that their dad homestead on too rocky, Peter and Simon decided to look for more suitable land. Two weeks of very exhaustive hunting and prospecting went by as they finally picked the site at Norquay.

Peter married Eugenia (Hannah) Chemerys (Chermyzie). Eugenia was born in Tartako, Sokal, Western Ukraine; died in Sep 1952; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cobblestone Research: Shows that Lukey, Kyrylo married Maria Oleksiuk and had nine children (Listed)
Lukey Family History Book shows that:
Father: Karl Lukey
Mother: Maria (Mary) Andreychuk

Cobblestone Freeway Research in the village of Babyntsi

LUKIY KYRYLO (Lukij Cyrillus) was born in 1849 (your information). He married Maria Oleksiuk, p.Dmytro and Iryna Byrka (Maria Oleksiuk, p.Demetrius et Irena Byrka). She was from the building No 58. They lived in the building No 58, later in the building No 295, and had
at least - 9 children:
Lukiy Petro (Lukij Petrus) 26.08.1876 DOB.
Lukiy Ivan (Lukij Joannes) 13.01.1879 – 22.01.1879
Lukiy Theodor (Lukij Theodorus) 7.03.1880 – 18.02.1881
Lukiy Vasylyna (Lukij Basilina) 25.01.1882 DOB.
Lukiy Mykhaylo (Lukij Michael) 20.11.1883 – 26.11.1883
Lukiy Semen (Lukij Simeon) 3.10.1885 DOB.
Lukiy Roman (Lukij Romanus) 9.10.1888 – 22.07.1890
Lukiy Vasyl (Lukij Basilius) 9.10.1888 – 24.12.1892 (twins with Roman) Lukiy Andriy (Lukij Andreas) 22.09.1892 DOB.

From Lawrence Huska page 6 - 7
After a short run from Winnipeg to Portage La Prairie, the family transferred to a different railway carrier, the CNR (Canadian Northern Railway), and covered the final distance to Grandview, Manitoba. There to the great joy of all, Paraska’s uncle, Kyrylo (Karl) Lukey (Кирило Лукій), and family welcomed them. It was now early June, about a week since their arrival in Halifax.

The First Homestead
Kyrylo, b. 1849, and his wife Maria (Марія) came to Canada from Babyntsi, Galicia, in 1900 where he had been the village reeve or mayor (війтом), together with three of their children, Wasylyna (Васйлйна) (b.1884), Simon (Семен) (b.1885), and Andrew (Андрай) (b.1892). Their oldest child, Peter (Петро) (b. 1876), had immigrated to Canada earlier, in 1898. It was Peter’s letters to his parents back in Babyntsi extolling the virtues of Canada that convinced them to seek a better life in Canada. They settled on SE22-27-23-W1, near Venlaw, north of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. And like most other immigrants, who had arrived in Canada, they had maintained contact with their relatives back in Babyntsi, which included Paraska and Roman. Although there were other Huskas settled in the Dauphin region, who were also from Babyntsi, it was Kyrylo and Maria who sponsored Roman, Paraska, George, and John. Because of the untenable conditions of their lives in Babyntsi and the favorable reports they had received by letter from the Lukeys in Venlaw, Roman and Paraska decided to join the flood of emigrants leaving Galicia in search of greener pastures in western Canada. The plan was that all would stay with the Lukeys until such time that the newcomers could establish themselves sufficiently to go it on their own. The 18 feet by 26 feet Lukey log house, typical of homesteaders’ residences, must have been extremely crowded with the addition of four adults and two small children to its confines.

Although a few settlers had taken out homesteads earlier, the great immigration swell did not arrive until after the completion of the Canadian Northern rail line to Grandview in December 1896. The Lukeys were part of that swell. The settlers continued to arrive in great numbers, occupying almost all the available land by the time that Roman and Paraska and the two young men arrived. The homesteads near the Lukeys were all taken. In fact, when the Lukeys arrived in 1900, the best land had already been taken. No doubt, this lead to hesitation on Kyrylo’s part to take out a homestead entry immediately. Instead the Lukey family squatted on what was the best quarter of a bad lot. However, under pressure from the local land office, Kyrylo filed his Entry for Homestead on June 21, 1901.

Karl married Maria (Mary) Oleksiuk(Andreychuk). Maria (daughter of Dmytro (Demetriu) Oleksiuk and Iryna (Irena) Byrka) was born in 1860 in Bldg 58, Babyntsi, Borodianka Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine; died in 1941; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cobblestone research:

OLEKSIUK
In the Registers, they wrote the surname in Latin as “Olexiuk”, “Oleksiuk” and even “Olexijow” and “Olexiow”. In the land documents 1820, they wrote “Olexow”. I will write “Oleksiuk”.
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I have managed to determine that the first of the kin was DMYTRO OLEKSIUK (Demetrius Oleksiuk). He was born in about 1836. He married Iryna Byrka (Irena Byrka). She was born in about 1835; she died 13.03.1889 at the age of 54. Dmytro died 4.05.1895 at the age of 59. They lived in Babyntsi in the building No 58.
In the land documents 1820, 3 Oleksiuk families lived in Babyntsi at that time: Oleksiuk Yuriy (No 57), Oleksiuk Stephan (No 58) and Oleksiuk Semen (No 61). Considering the building numbers, I assume that Stephan was the father or grandfather to Dmytro. Nevertheless, there are no Registers of the previous period to confirm/disprove it.
Dmytro and Iryna had at least 2 children:
OLEKSIUK HRYHORIY (Oleksiuk Gregorius) was born in about 1868. In 1889, he married Varvara Lukiy (please see the information above).
OLEKSIUK MARIA (Oleksiuk Maria) date of birth is unknown. She married Kyrylo Lukiy (please see the information above).

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Roman and Vasyl were twins.