A Memorial Mass for Olga K. Scanlon, 71, will be held 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, 2514 Old Jeanerette Road. Fr. Richard Greene will be the celebrant
Interment will be private.
Olga was a member of the New Iberia community since 1998. She recently succumbed to cancer following a two year struggle. While residing in New Iberia, she was a volunteer with the Southern Mutual Help Organization since 2004 and prior to that a volunteer tutor at Sugarland Elementary School.
She is survived by husband, John; sons Luke and Benjamin and daughter Julia. She is also survived by sisters Irene Gillen, Gloria Lovett and brother Elia. Olga was born to Vasyl Kacapyr and Julia Kozak in the village of Piratin outside Lvov in the Ukraine. She migrated to the U.S. with her sisters Irene and Gloria in 1946. The path to citizenship was paved by her mother, a U.S. citizen by birth having been born in Chicago and having returned to the Ukraine with her mother and brother Michael after the death of their father. Olga grew up in the Allentown, Pa., area and was trained in Medical Technology at Penn State University, graduating in 1961. Following graduation she worked for a time as a medical technologist but her principle effort became the training of future medical technologists in junior college and the public high schools of Philadelphia. On occasion she worked outside her chosen field teaching primary school children of UN peacekeepers in the newly formed Bangladesh in 1972. She also taught English as a second language in Haiti from 1988 to 1991 and in the Czech Republic in 2004.
Services for Olga will be held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. Olga’s family would prefer in lieu of flowers that contributions be sent to the Southern Mutual Help Association of New Iberia.
Personal condolences can be expressed at:
journetandboldenfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to Journet and Bolden Funeral Home, 711 S. Corinne St., New Iberia, 369-3638.
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