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Catherine “Dolly” Hricko Tyhosky - Mahoning County, Ohio

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Catherine “Dolly” Hricko Tyhosky - Mahoning County, Ohio

Posted: 22 May 2015 9:23AM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Edited: 22 May 2015 9:32AM GMT
Surnames: Selewach
GAHANNA, OH - Catherine “Dolly” Tyhosky, 93, passed into eternal rest, Tuesday afternoon, May 19, 2015, at National Church Residences in Gahanna, Ohio, (Franklin County) following a long and fulfilling life.
Catherine was born into a large family in Youngstown, Ohio (Mahoning County) on Oct. 15, 1921.
Her parents, Louis and Julia Selewach Hricko, nurtured their children to have a strong sense of family values.
At the time of her birth, Dolly’s mother had given birth to seven children; Anna, Mary, Evelyn, Bill, Helen, Louis, and Pauline, and would go on to have two more children, Nick and Betty.
Also, three other of Dolly’s siblings passed away as infants.

Childhood was a rich experience with everyone in the Hricko family huddled around the radio, listening to some of the great entertainers of the day.

Her older sister, Mary, nicknamed Catherine “Dolly” at age five, a name that stuck with her all her life. The Hricko sisters were extremely close, despite up to a 14 year age difference, and most worked outside the home to makes ends meet or were off starting their own families.

By the time Dolly was eight years old, the Great Depression descended on the nation.
Dolly and her best friend and future sister-in-law, Helen Tyhosky Berry, would clip the pictures of fruit from cans that the more well-off folks threw away, and pasted the pictures in a scrapbook. The Hricko family grew and canned all they could in order to carry the family through the winter. The children would also roam the railroad tracks on the way home from school, trying to find coal that fell off trains to help heat their home.
Dolly often told stories of her father killing chickens and her mother plucking them, making feather comforters to keep the children warm at night. She said that for fun, her mother would make the kids churn butter on the porch. Everyone had chores to do and all contributed to help put food on the table.
As she entered high school it became more difficult for Dolly to stay in school. All the years of bearing child after child had finally taken its toll on Dolly’s mother’s health, and with everyone working to help the family outside the home, Dolly quit school in the 10th grade to care for her mom.
Dolly’s sisters took turns caring for mom, and when Dolly’s younger sister, Betty, was old enough, she followed suit.
This gave Dolly the opportunity to join family friends, Esther and Rae Tokar, in New York City, working as a nanny and housekeeper.
Around that time, Dolly’s best friend, Helen Tyhosky’s brother, Jack, started to take notice of the ravishing beauty that Dolly was becoming, and a romance blossomed into the love of her life.
As World War II broke out, Dolly came back home to Youngstown, Ohio and started working in local factories to support the war effort. At Triangle Coat Factory, she marked button holes on fabric for raincoats. At Youngstown Steel Door, she prepped parts for the manufacture of railway box cars, and at General Fireproofing, she was a grinder operator, making airplane parts.
These factory jobs were where she made lifelong, rich friendships with Helen Spak, Erma Galose, and Lucille Hunter Miller.
With all “the boys” off at war, they each loved to dance at the Idora Park Ballroom and Coconut Grove.
Once the war ended, she married Jack, on Jan. 26, 1946, and enjoyed 52 years of marriage until he passed away in 1998.
After initially struggling to have a baby, her life’s dream to be a mom was fulfilled in May of 1954, when they adopted a baby boy, David John.
Doted on and spoiled, David was adored by Dolly and Jack, and had a charmed childhood surrounded by aunts, uncles, and cousins of all ages, and their children.

Dolly loved life and achieved much. She and Jack built their dream home on Birch Hill Drive on Youngstown’s west side, and acted as subcontractors. She would call it home for 60 years. Surrounded by an enormous extended family and in-laws, there were wonderful family picnics every summer, trips to Berlin Lake and to Lake Milton, OH. Growing up in a close-knit neighborhood, this remained a constant throughout her life, keeping in touch, playing 500-bid, Christmas celebrations that went on for a week, and going house-to-house, visiting to celebrate the holidays. Sadly, Dolly was the last member of this wonderful social richness of neighbors and in-laws, all connected to each other for a lifetime and keeping close through mutual admiration and caring. Preceded in death by her sisters-in-laws; Anne Ascione, Marie Tyhosky Brusko, Helen “Honey” Tyhosky Berry, and neighbors, friends, and sisters-in-laws, Ann Budinsky, Mary Castrucci, Helen Roseman, Phyllis Karas Johnson, and Ann Savarin.

Dolly was an excellent cook and baker. Her specialty on the cookie tables at the many family weddings were her clothespin cookies.
Jack and Dolly loved to travel, and every summer for over 20 years, drove all over the United States touring, so David could experience the attractions of the greatest cities; New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas. Eventually, these travels took them to 46 of the 50 states.
For her 25th wedding anniversary, she and Jack went to Hawaii and traveled to four islands. They also completed two cruises to Cancun, and vacationed in Jamaica and Porta Vallarta. Dolly also traveled with her friend, Annabelle Borovitcky, and the Warren Junior Military band, to England, Scotland, and Wales.
During her travels, she visited family and friends, among them, Dolly’s sister, Mary, and her family in Deland, Florida, her brother, Louis, and his family in Elmira, New York, cousins, Paul and Ester Selewach, in upstate New York, Texas, and Florida, as they moved around the U.S., family friends, Ester Tokar Schapiro and Rae Tokar Taxier, in New York City, Helen Gerhig, the young, fellow nanny she met in New York City who lived in Reading, PA., and later in El Paso, Texas; Mary Castrucci in Northridge, Calif.
Dolly had another hobby, which was making ceramics for over 25 years, with instructor and friend, Mary Lucas, in Struthers. She made many friends over the years and made many beautiful items, both useful and decorative for her home.

With such a large family, she became known as “Aunt Dolly” to the over 80 nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, whom she loved tremendously and whose photos she treasured and adorned her home.

. Her father was a founding member of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church on Rayen Avenue in Youngstown, and of St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, when that church was built in Austintown.
Dolly was an active pirohi-pincher, kolachi-roller, festival worker, was involved in ladies’ bus trips and was a part of many other parish projects.

Mrs. Tyhosky leaves her devoted son, David Tyhosky of Columbus, Ohio and David’s husband, Anthony Bobovnyk, who will miss her deeply.

Dolly was preceded in death by her parents, husband Jack, and her siblings, Anna Kish, Mary Davis, Evelyn Marks, Helen Costello, Bill Hricko, Louis Hricko, Pauline Miller, Betty Senich, and Nick Hricko.

Special thanks to special caregivers in her later years, Carol Budinsky, Janet Olenych, John Holland, Lou Martin, Dennis Senich, and Chris Filleti. Two very dear friends, Annie Kusic, who called her several times a day, and Marlene Brunetti, who was a constant companion, chauffeur, nurse, and friend while she was in Youngstown.

Family and friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 22, at Kinnick Funeral Home, 477 N. Meridian Rd., Youngsotwn, Ohio where a prayer service will take place at 4 p.m.

Funeral services will begin at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 23, at the funeral home, and will continue with a Divine Liturgy at noon at St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, 3910 Kirk Road, Austintown.

Interment will follow at Green Haven Memorial Gardens, where Dolly will be laid to rest next to her husband.

Visit kinnickfuneralhome.com to view this obituary and to send condolences online to Dolly’s family.
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SISTER

HUBBARD, OH – Betty Senich, 89, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at Northside Hospital Medical Center.

She was born Nov. 29, 1923, in Youngstown, Ohio (Mahoning County) a daughter of Louis and Julia Selewach Hricko, and had lived in Hubbard, Ohio since 1945.

Mrs. Senich was a member of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Youngstown.
She was a member of the Red Hat Society and St. Ann’s Guild.

Her husband, John Senich, whom she married Sept. 1, 1945, died in March of 1989.

She leaves three sons, John Dennis Senich of Hubbard, Ohio, Thomas Lewis Senich of Norwalk, Ohio and Mark Frances Senich of Everett, Washington; a daughter, Jeanne (Dr. James) Miller of Seattle; a sister, Catherine Tyhosky of Youngstown, Ohio; and seven grandchildren, John, Aaron, Joshua, Elizabeth, Jason (Sara), Ashley, and Tommy.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, William, Louis, and Nicholas; and five sisters, Helen Costello, Evelyn Marks, Mary Davis, Pauline Miller, and Ann Kish.

Family and friends may call on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Kelley-Robb-Cummins Funeral Home.

Family and friends are invited to meet at the church for funeral services which will be held Saturday, Jan 5, 2012 at 10 a.m. at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, 526 West Rayen Ave., Youngstown, OH 44502.

Interment will be at Green Haven Memorial Gardens.

Please visit www.krcummins.com to view this obituary and to send condolences to the family

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