Obituaries

The Washington Post | May 17, 2006 | Copyright

John Yaremchuk, 87, a World War II combat veteran and retired director of county development for Fairfax County, died of cancer May 2 at his home in Melbourne, Fla.

Mr. Yaremchuk was born in Krasnacelsa, Ukraine, and lived his early years in that small farming village with his aunt and uncle while his parents forged a new life in the United States. At age 10, alone and knowing only three phrases in English, he traveled across Europe and the Atlantic to the United States, joining his parents and two sisters in the coal-mining town of Fairmont, W.Va.

After his father died, he left school at age ...

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