PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Emilian (Omelan) Twardowsky passed peacefully on October 19 in his home with his family by his side. He was 92. Twardowsky is survived by his wife of 61 years, Anna, his daughter, Odarka (Daria), his son, Yaroslaw (Jerry), and relatives in Ukraine.
Born May 28, 1927, in the village of Nahuyevychi in the Drohobych region of the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine, his emigration journey took him from Ukraine to Austria, then to England and thereafter to Canada. He ultimately settled in the U.S. in Newark, N.J., where he married Anna Czolij in 1958. He also lived in Union and Parsippany, N.J.