9/13/1936 – 1/27/2019
We honor Jadwiga who was a beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother and Sister. Jadwiga was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine as the 10th child of Kamil and Yulianna (Julia) Zmiewski. The eldest six children had previously perished during Stalin’s forced starvation of Ukraine known as Holodomor (1932-1933). The family fled Ukraine to Germany during WWII, circa 1942. As a young girl growing up in Germany, Jadwiga had prayed to God to come to America. That prayer was answered when Kamil and Yulianna brought Jadwiga and her two younger brothers to America in 1952 when she was 16 years of age. They traveled by boat arriving in New York City, living for a short time in New Jersey. They then settled in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Jadwiga met her Husband, Aleksander Jurys, marrying in 1953. Aleks and Jadwiga moved to Kansas City, Kansas where they had their oldest child, Mary. They returned to Nebraska in 1956 settling in Omaha where the younger four children were born, Katherine, Anna, Alex and John. Aleks, Jadwiga, along with their three youngest teenage children, moved to Northglenn, Colorado, in 1976 when Aleks received a work transfer. Jadwiga returned to the Omaha area in 2014 after Aleksander passed away in 2010.
Jadwiga is preceded in death by beloved husband Aleksander, beloved son John, parents Kamil and Yulianna (Julia) Zmiewski, sister Marinya, brothers Zigmund and Josef and 6 beloved siblings lost during the Holodomor, father and mother in law, John and Maria Jurys, and brother and sister in law, Antoni and Anna Jurys.
Survived by:
Daughters, sons in law, and son, Mary and David Lundberg (Santa Cruz, California), Katherine and Patrick Krug ( Omaha), Anna and John Steinke (Omaha), and Alexander Jurys (Omaha). 12 grandchildren, Luck, Orion, Chantrelle, Darya, Gayla, Rachel, Joshua, Skyler, Travis, Tiffany, John, & Jordan. 5 Great- grandchildren, Daisy, Vera, Minka, Dasha, & Tanner. Two brothers and sisters in law, Walter and Sharon Zmiewski (Lincoln), and Gustav and Corliss Zmiewski (Lincoln). And many nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews.
Visitation Thursday, January 31, 2019 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM With Rosary 7:00 PM at Roeder Mortuary – Gretna Chapel; Funeral Service 10:30 AM Friday, February 1, 2019 at St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church 7790 S 192nd Street Gretna, Nebraska; Interment Olinger Highland Cemetery in Thornton, Colorado at a later date.
In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Endless Journey Hospice.
Thank you for the privilege of serving at Judy’s interment. What a life she led, and you all are the fruit of her undying love and times of deep struggle and grief. God bless you. May her memory be eternal.
Dear Family of Mrs. Jurys,
I am so sorry for your loss. May God’s promise bring you comfort. There will be “a new earth… and He will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore… I am making all things new.” Revelation 21:1-5