1919
Grace
2007
Grace H. Nazarko
March 5, 1919 — July 30, 2007
Rapid River
Grace Nazarko, 88, of N181 Stone Road, Rapid River, died at home on July 30th 2007. Grace was born March 5th, 1919 in Versailles, Missouri. She was the only child of David Elbert ("Bert"), and Ursie Zelma (Hatfield) Hulett. As a farm girl, she learned early on how to manage a team of horses, and was proud to have been the only son as well as the only daughter when chores had to be done. Though she left the one-room schoolhouse and the farm to go to "town" for high school, graduating in 1937, she never could pass spring calves without asking to stop for a closer look.
She took a job in Kansas City after graduating secretarial school, only to return home when her mother died in 1940. She helped dad once again, working in his service station/diner near Tipton. She met handsome young Lt. Nicholas Nazarko at Ft Leonard Wood, and in October of 1942, took a train north to Detroit where she met his family, borrowed a wedding dress and married him. They shared fifty-one years together before he preceded her in death in 1993. They raised and educated three children: Jeanne Dee, George and Edward Nazarko, before retiring to Marysville-Yuba City California in 1975. There Nicholas made furniture and clocks, and Grace clothes, quilts and embroidery for all their friends and neighbors. She was active in Fidelia Chapter 56 of The Order of The Eastern Star, serving as officer and matron many times through the years.
She came to live with her son George and his wife Susan (Kovach) Nazarko near Trenary in 2004, two years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In that short time she watched her granddaughter Natalia, with whom she shared a special bond, graduate from college, marry her school sweetheart, and then have a baby of her own. Her last evening was spent laughing, playing and making faces with her 7-month old great-granddaughter, an image her family will cherish forever. She left this world under her own terms, in the care of hospice and the comfort of her family.
No local services are planned, in keeping with Grace's wishes there will be an Eastern Star Service when her cremains are interred at Sutter Cemetery, in Yuba City, California alongside her loving husband. In lieu of flowers, please help increase the endowment of the large-print section of the Morgan County Library, Versailles, MO 65084, established in memory of Grace's only cousin and last surviving relative, Helen (Hulett) Bolton, who passed away last year.
Grace Nazarko, 88, of N181 Stone Road, Rapid River, died at home on July 30th 2007. Grace was born March 5th, 1919 in Versailles, Missouri. She was the only child of David Elbert ("Bert"), and Ursie Zelma (Hatfield) Hulett. As a farm girl, she learned early on how to manage a team of horses, and was proud to have been the only son as well as the only daughter when chores had to be done. Though she left the one-room schoolhouse and the farm to go to "town" for high school, graduating in 1937, she never could pass spring calves without asking to stop for a closer look.
She took a job in Kansas City after graduating secretarial school, only to return home when her mother died in 1940. She helped dad once again, working in his service station/diner near Tipton. She met handsome young Lt. Nicholas Nazarko at Ft Leonard Wood, and in October of 1942, took a train north to Detroit where she met his family, borrowed a wedding dress and married him. They shared fifty-one years together before he preceded her in death in 1993. They raised and educated three children: Jeanne Dee, George and Edward Nazarko, before retiring to Marysville-Yuba City California in 1975. There Nicholas made furniture and clocks, and Grace clothes, quilts and embroidery for all their friends and neighbors. She was active in Fidelia Chapter 56 of The Order of The Eastern Star, serving as officer and matron many times through the years.
She came to live with her son George and his wife Susan (Kovach) Nazarko near Trenary in 2004, two years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In that short time she watched her granddaughter Natalia, with whom she shared a special bond, graduate from college, marry her school sweetheart, and then have a baby of her own. Her last evening was spent laughing, playing and making faces with her 7-month old great-granddaughter, an image her family will cherish forever. She left this world under her own terms, in the care of hospice and the comfort of her family.
No local services are planned, in keeping with Grace's wishes there will be an Eastern Star Service when her cremains are interred at Sutter Cemetery, in Yuba City, California alongside her loving husband. In lieu of flowers, please help increase the endowment of the large-print section of the Morgan County Library, Versailles, MO 65084, established in memory of Grace's only cousin and last surviving relative, Helen (Hulett) Bolton, who passed away last year.
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