Jennifer Kateryna

Posted: May 26, 2014 in history, people
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Jennifer Kateryna Kobal’s’kyj

I became curious about this story when I encountered two different memorial plaques for this girl in two different churches on the same day.   Jennifer Kateryna, 24 Aug 1989 to 2 April 1996.  She would have been just a couple of months older than my daughter.

memorial plaque on a wall

In 1997 her maternal grandfather erected a plaque in her memory in Metropolitan United church.

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memorial plaque on a wall

There is another plaque, this one at St. James Cathedral, erected by her mother, maternal grandfather and aunt in 1998.

The death of a child is never a happy event, but Jennifer’s story is one of the sadder ones as she was murdered by her father as she tried to protect her grandmother from him. Sadder still is the fact that she had been living with her grandmother as part of the settlement in a custody dispute.

Polson Street Park, where the Don River meets Lake Ontario, was officially changed to Jennifer Kateryna Kobal’s’kyj Park in 1998. This park is at the end of Polson Pier, overlooking Toronto Harbour.

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Comments
  1. Norm Jones's avatar Norm Jones says:

    Came across your kind comments.Her grandfather has since died . Years ago I did release a cd in her memory.

  2. Jess's avatar Jess says:

    I use to live right beside her we went to school together played together. I watched them wheel them away and take them in the ambulance.. tragic and traumatic as a 6 year old my self at that time .. surprisingly my parents till this day still live right next door to her once home .

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