Aleksandr M. Kononchuk

Aleksandr M. Kononchuk, 92, died Monday, March 13, 2023 at Brickyard Healthcare.

He was born in Village of Shevchenko, Ukraine, on June 17, 1930 to Mark and Pelagea (Djugastranskaya) Kononchuk.

Aleksandr married Olga (Nedashkovskaya) Kononchuk. She died May 22, 1999.

Survivors include two daugters, Nataliya (Gennadiy Shylin) Titova of Mishawaka and Lina Zaluzhaya, Tennessee; two sons, Leonid (Irina) Kononchuk of Tennessee and Gennadiy (Yelena) Kononchuk of Elkhart; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Aleksandr’s working career included 40 years as a safety team in a mercury factory in Ukraine and as a Deacon at a Ukrainian Church in Pennsylvania after first arriving to the United States in 1992.

Visitation will be Monday, March 20, 2023 from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service at Yoder-Culp Funeral Home. Pastor Andrey Skorobogatko will officiate.

Burial will follow at Prairie Street Cemetery in Elkhart.