This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8420 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspape Ridgecrest CA Kern County June 9, 2005 HELEN KRAYNYK DRAGOVICH 1918-2005 Former Ridgecrest resident Helen Kraynyk Dragovich passed away Griday May 27, 2005 in Rideout Memorial Hospital, Marysville. She was 87. Funeral services were held June 4 at the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery Chapel with Father Michael Polosky officiating. Mrs. Dragovich was born May 23, 1918 in Pittsburgh. She was the daughter of the late Peter and Tekla Sokolowsky Kraynyk. She worked at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, from 1953 to 1973. While at China Lake she belonged to the Ceramics Club and the Naval Center's bowling league. She finished her career working for the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) in Santa Monica as an accounting analyst. She later moved to Chico where she worked part time at the Elks Club and did volunteer tax preparation for the elderly. In 1990 she moved to Yuba City to be closer to her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by four brothers John Kraynyk, and infant brothers Michael, Nicholas and Martine, three sisters Catherine Moros, Mary Hausehaulter and Tillie Medianowsky. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law John and Cynthia Dragovich of Yuba City, two grandchildren Dionne Del Carlo and Darren Dragovich, two great-grandchildren, two brothers Peter Kraynyk of Moon Township and Michael Kraynyk of California, three sisters Ann Wuycik of Ambridge, Stella Cox of California and Rose McCarthy of Mount Lebanon. Arrangements provided by john Syka Funeral Home in Ambridge. Media information provided by the family. News Review newspaper Ridgecrest CA June 25, 2005 HELEN KRAYNYK DRAGOVICH Helen Kraynyk Dragovich died Friday May 27, 2005 at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. She was 87. Funeral services were held Saturday May 28 in the S.S. Peter and Paul Cemetery Chapel. Father Michael Polosky officiated. Born May 23, 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Helen was the daughter of the late Peter and Tekla (Sokolowaky) Kraynyk. She worked at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake from 1953 to 1973. While at China Lake she belonged to the Ceramics Club and the Naval Center's bowling league. Helen finished her career working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Santa Monica where she worked part time at the Elks Club and did volunteer tax preparation for the elderly. In 1990 Helen moved to Yuba City to be closer to her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her four brothers John Kraynk and infant brothers Michael, Nicholas, and Martin and three sisters Catherine Moros, Mary Hausehaulter and Tillie Medianowsky. She is survived by her son John Dragovich and wife Cynthia of Yuba City, two grandchildren Dionne Del Carlo and Darren Dragovich, two great-grandchildren, two brothers Peter Kraynk of Moon Township and Michael Kraynyk of California, and three sisters Ann Wuycik of Ambridge, Stella Cox of California and Rose McCarthy of Mount Lebanon.