Lubomyr Ochrymovych

There is very little information about this son of Rev. Julian Okhrymovych - written records are scarce, and there is hardly anyone from his generation that could shed some light on his life. The only one from his generation that is alive, Liubov Okhrymovych Rakowsky, is too young to be able to remember anything about him.

Lubomyr "Luba" Okhrymovych was born on March 20, 1881. He completed his law studies at Lviv University, and worked as a judicial adjunt in Janiv near Lviv. He was married to Natalia Revakovych, the daughter of Tyt Revakovych, a court councillor, the older brother of Rev. Mykhailo Revakovych, the husband of Luba's eldest sister - Olha. They had two sons: Oleksander and Patrykij.

The marriage was not very happy. Natalka did not want to live with her husband "in the provinces" in Janiv, so she lived with her parents in Lviv. along with her brothers. She did not care about her husband (maybe due to the influence of her mother - an Armenian). In Janiv, Lubomyr nourished himself "as a bachelor", not too rationally, and suffered from stomach problems. When he became sick and was bedridden, she did not visit him, and it was his older brother Volodymyr that brought him to Lviv to the hospital. The operation was not successful - the septic inflammation of his appendix was too far prolonged. His wife Natalka also did not come to the funeral, she was seemingly sick.

After Lubomyr's death, his wife broke all ties with the Okhrymovych family, so even though she lived with her sons in Lviv, niether she nor her sons ever met up with Lubomyr's brothers, nor with their children, who also lived in Lviv. At the family reunion in Zavadiv in 1927, no one from this Okhrymovych family branch attended. Natalka would send her youngest son during the summer vacations to the village of Volosianky, to her cousin, Rev. Mykhailo Revakovych, a widower after the death of his wife Olha - who was Lubomyr's oldest sister. There on one such occasion, Patrykij by chance, met with Ostap Macilynsky in Volosianky and this was the only contact with the family. After the death of his mother, the older son Oleksander did establish contact with the Okhrymovychs and the Zalizniaks who lived in Lviv, bu the other son Patrykij never did.

As was mentioned by his brother-in-law, Antin Dolnycky, in his memoirs, Lubomyr was "a truly good soul, exceptionally sympathetic, good, hard worker but not too lucky in his choice of wife".

There are no accurate dates for Lubomyr and Natalka's death. He died in 1924. She died in the 1930s.